Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... mental theory of matter , than for a material theory of mind and history . The advance of science into the various pro- vinces of the organic world has favoured material- ism still more by its influence on the character of the ...
... mental theory of matter , than for a material theory of mind and history . The advance of science into the various pro- vinces of the organic world has favoured material- ism still more by its influence on the character of the ...
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... mental and the lowest vital faculties . There is no absolute break or distinc- tion , but , on the contrary , a continuous progres- sion along the entire psychological line which runs from the protogenes and protamaba to Plato and ...
... mental and the lowest vital faculties . There is no absolute break or distinc- tion , but , on the contrary , a continuous progres- sion along the entire psychological line which runs from the protogenes and protamaba to Plato and ...
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... mental pheno- mena . The result has been to show that the phenomena peculiar to human psychology may be resolved into simpler states , and that these may be traced backwards and downwards until the primordial properties of matter are ...
... mental pheno- mena . The result has been to show that the phenomena peculiar to human psychology may be resolved into simpler states , and that these may be traced backwards and downwards until the primordial properties of matter are ...
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... mental sciences as the idealist in judging of the doctrines of the physical sciences . The theist , in reality , occupies a far more advan- tageous position . He can be both just and def- erential alike towards the physical and mental ...
... mental sciences as the idealist in judging of the doctrines of the physical sciences . The theist , in reality , occupies a far more advan- tageous position . He can be both just and def- erential alike towards the physical and mental ...
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... mental and moral facts than the bias which the mind derives from its familiar converse with the objects of sense to assimilate all other objects to these , and to think of them under mate- rial categories , or according to material ...
... mental and moral facts than the bias which the mind derives from its familiar converse with the objects of sense to assimilate all other objects to these , and to think of them under mate- rial categories , or according to material ...
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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.