Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... explains why , as soon as speculation appeared and assumed an anti - religious attitude , it should have presented itself in the form of materialism . In spite of all that has been said against speculation , however , it is not the rule ...
... explains why , as soon as speculation appeared and assumed an anti - religious attitude , it should have presented itself in the form of materialism . In spite of all that has been said against speculation , however , it is not the rule ...
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... explains why some recent German writers , favourable to materialism , have extolled Democritus as a spec- ulative and scientific genius of the very highest 1 See Appendix VII . D order , equal or superior to Plato and Aristotle . Greek ...
... explains why some recent German writers , favourable to materialism , have extolled Democritus as a spec- ulative and scientific genius of the very highest 1 See Appendix VII . D order , equal or superior to Plato and Aristotle . Greek ...
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... explained the universe by means of space and atoms - the empty and the full . The atoms , infinite in number , moving in infinite space , give rise to infinite worlds . These atoms are eter- nal , and they are imperishable . There is no ...
... explained the universe by means of space and atoms - the empty and the full . The atoms , infinite in number , moving in infinite space , give rise to infinite worlds . These atoms are eter- nal , and they are imperishable . There is no ...
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... explain the world by physical principles . The soul Democritus regarded as only a body within the body , made of more delicate atoms ; thought as only a more refined and pure sensation ; and sensations as the impressions produced by ...
... explain the world by physical principles . The soul Democritus regarded as only a body within the body , made of more delicate atoms ; thought as only a more refined and pure sensation ; and sensations as the impressions produced by ...
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... explanation of the universe which would free men from religious fears , and from re- ligious beliefs so far as these caused fear . Such an explanation they found in the theory of De- mocritus , and hence they adopted it . The great ...
... explanation of the universe which would free men from religious fears , and from re- ligious beliefs so far as these caused fear . Such an explanation they found in the theory of De- mocritus , and hence they adopted it . The great ...
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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.