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... mere verbalism . Re- ligion is discarded along with Metaphysic , or at least religion in the old sense . This is the drift of the modern spirit - the " Zeit- geist , " as it is called . It has penetrated philosophy , literature ...
... mere verbalism . Re- ligion is discarded along with Metaphysic , or at least religion in the old sense . This is the drift of the modern spirit - the " Zeit- geist , " as it is called . It has penetrated philosophy , literature ...
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... mere theory , but a faith , as it was with Comte himself . And there is a certain passionate glow in their expositions , just as there was in those of the master . The love of the present world , of the great cosmos of natural life ...
... mere theory , but a faith , as it was with Comte himself . And there is a certain passionate glow in their expositions , just as there was in those of the master . The love of the present world , of the great cosmos of natural life ...
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... mere religion of nature . It is the withdrawal of men like Dr Newman and others from the open fields of reason and his- tory - where the true battle of religion can alone be fought which has given to the naturalistic schools of our time ...
... mere religion of nature . It is the withdrawal of men like Dr Newman and others from the open fields of reason and his- tory - where the true battle of religion can alone be fought which has given to the naturalistic schools of our time ...
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... mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found . The springs of nature are viewless , and the mere scalpel of induction can never lay ...
... mere soil of physics in any direction , analyse to the last the complication of external phenomena , and force as a distinct reality is nowhere found . The springs of nature are viewless , and the mere scalpel of induction can never lay ...
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... mere technical details which have no bearing on his subject ; his store of knowledge , although he prematurely ceased to add to it , is vast and multifarious ; and he seldom misses the apt example or illustration , while conve- niently ...
... mere technical details which have no bearing on his subject ; his store of knowledge , although he prematurely ceased to add to it , is vast and multifarious ; and he seldom misses the apt example or illustration , while conve- niently ...
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Agnosticism argument Arnold Auguste Comte basis betwixt Blackwood's Magazine Caro character Christian Comte Comte's conception consciousness criticism Crown 8vo Democritus Divine doctrine dogma Dr Tyndall Edinburgh essay ethical existence experience external facts Fcap feeling Ferrier force German Gravenhurst Greek Philosophy Hartmann higher History human Hume idea ideal Illustrations intellectual intelligence Kant Kant's Kantian knowledge Königsberg Kritik language Lectures less LL.D logical materialistic matter meaning ment merely metaphysical mind modern moral nature never object perception Pessimism phenomena philosophy physical Positive Positivism Positivist Post 8vo principle privat-docent Professor question reality reason recognise religion religious righteousness says Schopenhauer scientific Scotland Scottish Second Edition sense Sir William Hamilton speculation sphere spiritual supposed Theism theology theory things thinker Thorndale thought tion Translated true truth University University of Edinburgh vols volume whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD words writings
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Page 303 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 158 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Page 295 - Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being...