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... explain nature . The Epicureans did so . At the same time , the motive , such as it was , induced them to study nature more intensely than they would otherwise have done , or than the rest of their contemporaries did ; and physical ...
... explain nature . The Epicureans did so . At the same time , the motive , such as it was , induced them to study nature more intensely than they would otherwise have done , or than the rest of their contemporaries did ; and physical ...
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... explanation of them ? How is it that they account not only for other things but for them- selves ? But to these questions we get no rational replies . These are questions which materialism has never dared fairly to confront and grapple ...
... explanation of them ? How is it that they account not only for other things but for them- selves ? But to these questions we get no rational replies . These are questions which materialism has never dared fairly to confront and grapple ...
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... explain how the atoms came to be unlike ; how some of them came to be smooth and round , others to be cubical , others to be hooked and jagged , & c .; and , in a word , how they all came to be just so shaped as to be able collectively ...
... explain how the atoms came to be unlike ; how some of them came to be smooth and round , others to be cubical , others to be hooked and jagged , & c .; and , in a word , how they all came to be just so shaped as to be able collectively ...
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... was rested on two reasons . In the first place , it was needed to explain the formation of the universe without the intervention of a super- natural cause . The formation of the universe supposed collision 64 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... was rested on two reasons . In the first place , it was needed to explain the formation of the universe without the intervention of a super- natural cause . The formation of the universe supposed collision 64 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... explanation of freewill in living things . Epicurus pronounced the fatalism of the physicists and philosophers even ... explained from nature , freewill must have its cause in nature , and nature cannot be wholly subject to necessity ...
... explanation of freewill in living things . Epicurus pronounced the fatalism of the physicists and philosophers even ... explained from nature , freewill must have its cause in nature , and nature cannot be wholly subject to necessity ...
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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.