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Page ix
... religious position . The paper appears , therefore , as originally written , with the ex- ception of a statement as to which the Memoir in its first form ( it was first printed privately ) had misled the author . The special questions ...
... religious position . The paper appears , therefore , as originally written , with the ex- ception of a statement as to which the Memoir in its first form ( it was first printed privately ) had misled the author . The special questions ...
Page x
... religion , and theology can survive the elimination of the Supernatural . The relation of Ethics to Metaphysics might have been ex- amined in connection with significant works in our own language , which have lately attracted much ...
... religion , and theology can survive the elimination of the Supernatural . The relation of Ethics to Metaphysics might have been ex- amined in connection with significant works in our own language , which have lately attracted much ...
Page xi
... religion . But nothing appears more hopeless than to mix the two currents , to abandon the supernatural basis of religion , and yet to hold to religion in any sense in which it has hitherto been held- in which it has been to men a ...
... religion . But nothing appears more hopeless than to mix the two currents , to abandon the supernatural basis of religion , and yet to hold to religion in any sense in which it has hitherto been held- in which it has been to men a ...
Page xii
... religious certitude laid down in that work , as an escape from the assaults of the modern spirit of doubt . But the length to which the essays already mentioned have extended has prevented me including this paper ; and the series is ...
... religious certitude laid down in that work , as an escape from the assaults of the modern spirit of doubt . But the length to which the essays already mentioned have extended has prevented me including this paper ; and the series is ...
Page xiii
... religion can alone be fought which has given to the naturalistic schools of our time their temporary triumph . Traditionalism- or the acceptance of religious truth without reason— goes well with empiricism , and since the days of Hume ...
... religion can alone be fought which has given to the naturalistic schools of our time their temporary triumph . Traditionalism- or the acceptance of religious truth without reason— goes well with empiricism , and since the days of Hume ...
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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...