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John Tulloch. 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays have a common object ; and I have thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem ...
John Tulloch. 127783 APR 6 1909 BS PREFACE . THESE Essays have a common object ; and I have thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem ...
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... object . The recent publication of his third edition , with his extended treatment of the Positive Philo- sophy , invites us to a consideration of some of the pretensions of this vaunted system . Than Mr Lewes , Positivism has no more ...
... object . The recent publication of his third edition , with his extended treatment of the Positive Philo- sophy , invites us to a consideration of some of the pretensions of this vaunted system . Than Mr Lewes , Positivism has no more ...
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... object - and the appeal was responded to for the rest of his life . 66 Two years after his separation from his wife , he made the acquaintance of a lady named Madame Clotilde de Vaux . As he was separated from his wife , so she was ...
... object - and the appeal was responded to for the rest of his life . 66 Two years after his separation from his wife , he made the acquaintance of a lady named Madame Clotilde de Vaux . As he was separated from his wife , so she was ...
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... object is to constitute at length a real Providence in all departments - moral , intellectual , and material . Consequently they exclude , once for all , from political supremacy , all the different servants of God- Catholic ...
... object is to constitute at length a real Providence in all departments - moral , intellectual , and material . Consequently they exclude , once for all , from political supremacy , all the different servants of God- Catholic ...
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... object the discovery of the laws which regulate the whole pheno- mena in any department of knowledge ; the latter con- templates the phenomena in detail or according to their actual appearance . Chemistry , for example , is an abstract ...
... object the discovery of the laws which regulate the whole pheno- mena in any department of knowledge ; the latter con- templates the phenomena in detail or according to their actual appearance . Chemistry , for example , is an abstract ...
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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...