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... clear thinking . Tyndall's speculations as to matter are simply an extension of the hypothesis of evolution , according to the scientific doctrine of uniformity , from the known to the unknown . Back to a primordial germ Darwin is ...
... clear thinking . Tyndall's speculations as to matter are simply an extension of the hypothesis of evolution , according to the scientific doctrine of uniformity , from the known to the unknown . Back to a primordial germ Darwin is ...
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... clear , that Tyndall can discern in it , at that distance , " the promise and potency of every form and quality of life " ? How is it that the relations of matter and mind are un- thinkable as they exist in the brain , and thinkable as ...
... clear , that Tyndall can discern in it , at that distance , " the promise and potency of every form and quality of life " ? How is it that the relations of matter and mind are un- thinkable as they exist in the brain , and thinkable as ...
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... clear . " But his definition , contemplated with all patience and candor , is clear in neither its affirmations nor its negations ; while the established is capable of a coherent presentation in both these respects . So far , indeed ...
... clear . " But his definition , contemplated with all patience and candor , is clear in neither its affirmations nor its negations ; while the established is capable of a coherent presentation in both these respects . So far , indeed ...
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... clear idea of what he means by causation . Almost while Tyndall was speaking before the British Association at Belfast on atoms , M. Wurtz , president of the French Associa- tion , was discussing before that body the same theme , and ...
... clear idea of what he means by causation . Almost while Tyndall was speaking before the British Association at Belfast on atoms , M. Wurtz , president of the French Associa- tion , was discussing before that body the same theme , and ...
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... clear ideas and spirit- ual purposes conjoined are the only deadly intellectual weapons . When a haughty attitude is assumed . by physical science in the name of the scientific method , all that religious science has to do is to show ...
... clear ideas and spirit- ual purposes conjoined are the only deadly intellectual weapons . When a haughty attitude is assumed . by physical science in the name of the scientific method , all that religious science has to do is to show ...
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Page 139 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 295 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
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Page 222 - MODERN PHYSICAL FATALISM, AND THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. Including an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's "First Principles.
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Page 73 - I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who have been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body — and he asks, How shall he bury me?
Page 282 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.