Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... idea that this ineffable Being has ren- dered nature competent to every effect , by giving her those irrevocable laws , that eternal , unchange- able system , according to which all the beings she sustains must eternally act ? Is it not ...
... idea that this ineffable Being has ren- dered nature competent to every effect , by giving her those irrevocable laws , that eternal , unchange- able system , according to which all the beings she sustains must eternally act ? Is it not ...
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... ideas come to him involuntarily ; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them ; he is unceasingly modified by causes , whether visible or concealed , over which he has no control , and which necessarily deter ...
... ideas come to him involuntarily ; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them ; he is unceasingly modified by causes , whether visible or concealed , over which he has no control , and which necessarily deter ...
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... idea or the deed by which he immortalises himself . That he has no ground for expecting to receive in a future life a recompense or punishment for his present con- duct . That morally good and ill do not exist substantially , abso ...
... idea or the deed by which he immortalises himself . That he has no ground for expecting to receive in a future life a recompense or punishment for his present con- duct . That morally good and ill do not exist substantially , abso ...
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... idea and nature , logic and physics , contended that God is personal only in man , and the soul immortal only in God , mean- ing thereby that God as God is not personal , and real souls not immortal . Feuerbach , Bruno Bauer , Max ...
... idea and nature , logic and physics , contended that God is personal only in man , and the soul immortal only in God , mean- ing thereby that God as God is not personal , and real souls not immortal . Feuerbach , Bruno Bauer , Max ...
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... ideas are included in man . Reason consequently requires us to seek the explanation of man and ideas in what is common and primary in the uni- verse - matter and motion . To attempt to explain what is ancient by what is recent , the ...
... ideas are included in man . Reason consequently requires us to seek the explanation of man and ideas in what is common and primary in the uni- verse - matter and motion . To attempt to explain what is ancient by what is recent , the ...
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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.