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... thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem to me of great importance . The question with which they deal in diverse appli- cation is ...
... thought them , therefore , worthy of being published together . The same principles more or less reappear in them all , and these principles seem to me of great importance . The question with which they deal in diverse appli- cation is ...
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... thought in England , and especially in Mr Harrison's eloquent pages ; but the principles of the creed , and even its details , are best presented in the full light of Comte's own thought and life . The same subject is pursued less ...
... thought in England , and especially in Mr Harrison's eloquent pages ; but the principles of the creed , and even its details , are best presented in the full light of Comte's own thought and life . The same subject is pursued less ...
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... thought in France runs along the same lines . C The essays on Mr Matthew Arnold's views of ' Reli- gion without Metaphysic , ' and the recent well - known volume on ' Natural Religion , ' are in considerable part freshly written , and ...
... thought in France runs along the same lines . C The essays on Mr Matthew Arnold's views of ' Reli- gion without Metaphysic , ' and the recent well - known volume on ' Natural Religion , ' are in considerable part freshly written , and ...
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... thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness , comprehension , and force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in opposition to the old ...
... thought , or who has more frequently recurred to its characteristic ideas , and explained them with more clearness , comprehension , and force . It has been Mr Lewes's mission to develop and spread these ideas in opposition to the old ...
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... thought unworthy of an English dress ; but he has probably done more than any other Englishman to make known the general principles of Positivism , and to commend them , on repeated occasions , by a facile , copious , and attractive ...
... thought unworthy of an English dress ; but he has probably done more than any other Englishman to make known the general principles of Positivism , and to commend them , on repeated occasions , by a facile , copious , and attractive ...
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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...