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... earth to earth , ashes to ashes ; mind and heart as well as body to ashes - thoughts , affec- tions , virtue to ashes ; all , dust to dust . Is there much encouragement to virtue there ? The atheist may reply , I take from life no moral ...
... earth to earth , ashes to ashes ; mind and heart as well as body to ashes - thoughts , affec- tions , virtue to ashes ; all , dust to dust . Is there much encouragement to virtue there ? The atheist may reply , I take from life no moral ...
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... earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if he have thereby the joy of gratifying his desires , any blame you may give him after he is dead will not take away from the reality of his enjoyment . Blame is to the bad man ...
... earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if he have thereby the joy of gratifying his desires , any blame you may give him after he is dead will not take away from the reality of his enjoyment . Blame is to the bad man ...
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... earth . Fame , therefore , according to Yang Choo , is but a phan- tom , virtue is but a delusion , and enjoyment has alone some reality and good in it . Hence he advises men not to care for praise or blame , virtue or vice , except as ...
... earth . Fame , therefore , according to Yang Choo , is but a phan- tom , virtue is but a delusion , and enjoyment has alone some reality and good in it . Hence he advises men not to care for praise or blame , virtue or vice , except as ...
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... earth , whence , I ask , has been wrested from the fates the power by which we go forward whither the will leads . each , by which likewise we change the direction of our motions neither at a fixed time nor fixed place , but when and ...
... earth , whence , I ask , has been wrested from the fates the power by which we go forward whither the will leads . each , by which likewise we change the direction of our motions neither at a fixed time nor fixed place , but when and ...
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... earth , and ocean , sun and moon , rose in nice order . The atoms , so we are told , " jostling about of their own accord , in infinite modes , were often brought to- gether confusedly , irregularly , and to no purpose , but at length ...
... earth , and ocean , sun and moon , rose in nice order . The atoms , so we are told , " jostling about of their own accord , in infinite modes , were often brought to- gether confusedly , irregularly , and to no purpose , but at length ...
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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.