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... chief task in life of one of the most celebrated Chinese philo- sophers , Meng - tseu , better known in the West as Mencius , to combat this doctrine , and the views . of man's duty and destiny which were based on it . He believed it to ...
... chief task in life of one of the most celebrated Chinese philo- sophers , Meng - tseu , better known in the West as Mencius , to combat this doctrine , and the views . of man's duty and destiny which were based on it . He believed it to ...
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... chief interest in the study of nature is the hope of find- ing the means of destroying or dispelling religion . are almost certain to fall into grave mistakes in their attempts to explain nature . The Epicureans did so . At the same ...
... chief interest in the study of nature is the hope of find- ing the means of destroying or dispelling religion . are almost certain to fall into grave mistakes in their attempts to explain nature . The Epicureans did so . At the same ...
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... sensuous pleasure - as the chief end of life . He excused vices on the ground that they are organic diseases , and that man cannot control himself . He jeers at modesty and chastity , at love and friendship . Materialism in France . 85.
... sensuous pleasure - as the chief end of life . He excused vices on the ground that they are organic diseases , and that man cannot control himself . He jeers at modesty and chastity , at love and friendship . Materialism in France . 85.
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... chief author of that notorious work which has been called the Bible of atheistical materialism- the ' System of Nature . ' It appeared in 1770 , and bore two falsehoods on its title - page : it professed to be written by a M. de ...
... chief author of that notorious work which has been called the Bible of atheistical materialism- the ' System of Nature . ' It appeared in 1770 , and bore two falsehoods on its title - page : it professed to be written by a M. de ...
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... chief value in the nine- teenth century , has been receding and decreasing ; and another , which is in the main ... chiefs of contemporary science , and it finds in them advocates as outspoken and enthusiastic as were Lucretius and ...
... chief value in the nine- teenth century , has been receding and decreasing ; and another , which is in the main ... chiefs of contemporary science , and it finds in them advocates as outspoken and enthusiastic as were Lucretius and ...
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Page 160 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to. another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 384 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 172 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. 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...
Page 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
Page 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.