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... regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments . Modern men of science are apt to imagine that this is really for the first time to have established them . But this is not the case . No general truth ...
... regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments . Modern men of science are apt to imagine that this is really for the first time to have established them . But this is not the case . No general truth ...
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... regard a number of co - ordinate causes as other than a group of sec- ondary causes . But the question is , Is material- ism monism ? or , in other words , Is matter one ? I answer , No. Matter cannot possibly be con- ceived of as ...
... regard a number of co - ordinate causes as other than a group of sec- ondary causes . But the question is , Is material- ism monism ? or , in other words , Is matter one ? I answer , No. Matter cannot possibly be con- ceived of as ...
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... regards the demand of reason for unity becomes only the more evident when we take into consideration the fact that force is always combined with matter . This fact is disputed by no one , but opinions differ widely as to how matter and ...
... regards the demand of reason for unity becomes only the more evident when we take into consideration the fact that force is always combined with matter . This fact is disputed by no one , but opinions differ widely as to how matter and ...
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... regard to physical things only with the discovery of exact quantita- tive relations ; but thought , which merely recalls or represents sense , is seldom definite , and even in physical investigation the path of progress is from sense ...
... regard to physical things only with the discovery of exact quantita- tive relations ; but thought , which merely recalls or represents sense , is seldom definite , and even in physical investigation the path of progress is from sense ...
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... regard the improvement from the scientific or from the theological point of view , as the result of pro- gressive development , or as the result of successive exhibitions of creative energy , neither view en- titles us to assume that ...
... regard the improvement from the scientific or from the theological point of view , as the result of pro- gressive development , or as the result of successive exhibitions of creative energy , neither view en- titles us to assume that ...
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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.