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... possible that cir- cumstances , however viewed , will admit ? " In the work under consideration , order and con- fusion are maintained to have no existence in nature itself . All is necessarily in order , we are told , since everything ...
... possible that cir- cumstances , however viewed , will admit ? " In the work under consideration , order and con- fusion are maintained to have no existence in nature itself . All is necessarily in order , we are told , since everything ...
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... possible for man to demonstrate the fact . That the world exists of itself , and of itself solely . That man has no original sin to ransom . That he bears about him memory and reason , as 102 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... possible for man to demonstrate the fact . That the world exists of itself , and of itself solely . That man has no original sin to ransom . That he bears about him memory and reason , as 102 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... possible for the former to be greatly distinguished in their vocations without requiring ever seriously to ask what matter is , but hardly for the latter , who have to deal with it in its more general and essential nature . The natural ...
... possible for the former to be greatly distinguished in their vocations without requiring ever seriously to ask what matter is , but hardly for the latter , who have to deal with it in its more general and essential nature . The natural ...
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... possible . A closely connected excellence claimed by materialism is that of being the most intelligible of systems . It is maintained that we never truly understand a fact or process of which we cannot form a distinct and precise image ...
... possible . A closely connected excellence claimed by materialism is that of being the most intelligible of systems . It is maintained that we never truly understand a fact or process of which we cannot form a distinct and precise image ...
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... possible , so they tell us , to think of such matter than to think of a centreless circle , or a stick with merely one end . The only matter which by any stretch of mind can be con- ceived or imagined as even a possible object of ...
... possible , so they tell us , to think of such matter than to think of a centreless circle , or a stick with merely one end . The only matter which by any stretch of mind can be con- ceived or imagined as even a possible object of ...
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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.