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... consistent theory . A few exceptionally consti- tuted natures may combine a materialistic creed with generous and self - denying conduct , but the ordinary man of all lands and ages will find in a materialism which denies God and a ...
... consistent theory . A few exceptionally consti- tuted natures may combine a materialistic creed with generous and self - denying conduct , but the ordinary man of all lands and ages will find in a materialism which denies God and a ...
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... consistent if not very profound thinker , and endowed with remarkable aptitudes for mathematical and phys- ical investigation . There is , further , no reason to question that the high reputation which he gained for moral worth - for ...
... consistent if not very profound thinker , and endowed with remarkable aptitudes for mathematical and phys- ical investigation . There is , further , no reason to question that the high reputation which he gained for moral worth - for ...
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... consistent he would have refused wholly to admit its existence . He would have said it was useless and unprovable . He would have been an idealist . Besides , while Hobbes excluded religion from the sphere of what can be proved , he ...
... consistent he would have refused wholly to admit its existence . He would have said it was useless and unprovable . He would have been an idealist . Besides , while Hobbes excluded religion from the sphere of what can be proved , he ...
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... consistency with these views he represented pleasure - 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 ...
... consistency with these views he represented pleasure - 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 ...
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... sustains must eternally act ? Is it not more worthy of the exalted mind of the Great Parent of parents , ens entium , more consistent with truth , to suppose that His wisdom , in giving these im- 92 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... sustains must eternally act ? Is it not more worthy of the exalted mind of the Great Parent of parents , ens entium , more consistent with truth , to suppose that His wisdom , in giving these im- 92 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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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.