Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... less is it true that those whose chief interest in the study of nature is the hope of find- ing the means of destroying or dispelling religion . are almost certain to fall into grave mistakes in their attempts to explain nature . The ...
... less is it true that those whose chief interest in the study of nature is the hope of find- ing the means of destroying or dispelling religion . are almost certain to fall into grave mistakes in their attempts to explain nature . The ...
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... less at this point than in ignoring the consideration that if the atoms possessed the power of deviation that was itself a fact to be accounted for . Whence came the countless hosts of atoms to be all provided with so remarkable a ...
... less at this point than in ignoring the consideration that if the atoms possessed the power of deviation that was itself a fact to be accounted for . Whence came the countless hosts of atoms to be all provided with so remarkable a ...
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... less hostile to ma- terialism than Christianity . Thus for centuries materialism had almost no existence , almost no history.1 1 See Appendix X. With the downfall of scholasticism and the emancipation of the Materialism in the Middle ...
... less hostile to ma- terialism than Christianity . Thus for centuries materialism had almost no existence , almost no history.1 1 See Appendix X. With the downfall of scholasticism and the emancipation of the Materialism in the Middle ...
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... less , in spirit . The consequence is plain , —there can be no science , no philosophy of spirit . Spirit even as finite is beyond comprehension , beyond the range of experiment and sense , and therefore beyond reasoning and beyond ...
... less , in spirit . The consequence is plain , —there can be no science , no philosophy of spirit . Spirit even as finite is beyond comprehension , beyond the range of experiment and sense , and therefore beyond reasoning and beyond ...
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... less profitably occu- pied . To represent La Mettrie as either a man of much moral worth or of much talent is to falsify history . He does not absolutely deny that there is a God . It shows the mental calibre of the man that he should ...
... less profitably occu- pied . To represent La Mettrie as either a man of much moral worth or of much talent is to falsify history . He does not absolutely deny that there is a God . It shows the mental calibre of the man that he should ...
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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.