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... necessarily deter- mine his way of thinking and manner of acting . He is good or bad , happy or miserable , wise or foolish , rational or irrational , without his will go- ing for anything in these various states . " There is thus ...
... necessarily deter- mine his way of thinking and manner of acting . He is good or bad , happy or miserable , wise or foolish , rational or irrational , without his will go- ing for anything in these various states . " There is thus ...
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... necessarily have been silent about God , the soul , the moral law , the destiny of man , for these are subjects on which mere sense and physical science have nothing to say . At the same time , they are subjects on which man as a ...
... necessarily have been silent about God , the soul , the moral law , the destiny of man , for these are subjects on which mere sense and physical science have nothing to say . At the same time , they are subjects on which man as a ...
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... necessarily not been of a kind to dazzle the eye and impress the imagination . It is not surprising , therefore , that physical science should have attracted general and engrossing at- tention ; that it should to a large extent have ...
... necessarily not been of a kind to dazzle the eye and impress the imagination . It is not surprising , therefore , that physical science should have attracted general and engrossing at- tention ; that it should to a large extent have ...
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... necessarily from the powers inherent in the system itself . Theism , on the contrary , supposes that the universe in itself is incoherent and imperfect , and that the explanation of many things in it must be sought for out of itself ...
... necessarily from the powers inherent in the system itself . Theism , on the contrary , supposes that the universe in itself is incoherent and imperfect , and that the explanation of many things in it must be sought for out of itself ...
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... necessarily very different func- tions in the several instances . Crystallisation is a process scarcely less marvellous in itself and in its results than growth . Why are we not to believe The Argument for Materialism . 121.
... necessarily very different func- tions in the several instances . Crystallisation is a process scarcely less marvellous in itself and in its results than growth . Why are we not to believe The Argument for Materialism . 121.
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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.