The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... Unexplained Phenomena : tendency of Philosophical Con- Examples : Nature of Gravitation 167 169 Aggregation of Matter The Nebular Hypothesis 170 172 Page Argument from Physical to Moral Causation 176 Secondary Causes vi CONTENTS .
... Unexplained Phenomena : tendency of Philosophical Con- Examples : Nature of Gravitation 167 169 Aggregation of Matter The Nebular Hypothesis 170 172 Page Argument from Physical to Moral Causation 176 Secondary Causes vi CONTENTS .
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... philosophical prin- ciples , and by an elaborate metaphysical argument , has undertaken to maintain that a strictly natural theology , logically deduced from the phenomena of creation , is absolutely unattainable . This position he ...
... philosophical prin- ciples , and by an elaborate metaphysical argument , has undertaken to maintain that a strictly natural theology , logically deduced from the phenomena of creation , is absolutely unattainable . This position he ...
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... philosophical views deve- loped and illustrated in it , I shall have occasion to refer particularly in the course of the ensuing pages ; at present , I merely wish to express my conviction of its general value , especially as suggesting ...
... philosophical views deve- loped and illustrated in it , I shall have occasion to refer particularly in the course of the ensuing pages ; at present , I merely wish to express my conviction of its general value , especially as suggesting ...
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... illiterate , as the profoundest investigation does in the most philosophical . And the more closely and accurately the phenomena are scrutinized and reduced under general laws , the more powerful is the 2 INTRODUCTION .
... illiterate , as the profoundest investigation does in the most philosophical . And the more closely and accurately the phenomena are scrutinized and reduced under general laws , the more powerful is the 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... philosophical or not , according to the extent and justness of the comparison which has suggested it . For example ( 1. ) Experiment had shown that electricity in a high state of tension discharges itself with a flash and a report ...
... philosophical or not , according to the extent and justness of the comparison which has suggested it . For example ( 1. ) Experiment had shown that electricity in a high state of tension discharges itself with a flash and a report ...
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