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... rest on the confusion of religion with superstition . But superstition is as distinct from religion as from atheism . Superstition and athe- ism are both contraries to religion , and , as was long ago remarked , are closely akin . They ...
... rest on the confusion of religion with superstition . But superstition is as distinct from religion as from atheism . Superstition and athe- ism are both contraries to religion , and , as was long ago remarked , are closely akin . They ...
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... rest in it . The history of materialism impartially written is not a very bril- liant one . Comparatively few of the world's great- est thinkers have been adherents of this system . Its advocates have often done it little credit.1 In ...
... rest in it . The history of materialism impartially written is not a very bril- liant one . Comparatively few of the world's great- est thinkers have been adherents of this system . Its advocates have often done it little credit.1 In ...
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... rest of their contemporaries did ; and physical science profited from this in no small measure . With all its defects the atomic doctrine is the most valuable theory , falling within the sphere of physical science , which modern times ...
... rest of their contemporaries did ; and physical science profited from this in no small measure . With all its defects the atomic doctrine is the most valuable theory , falling within the sphere of physical science , which modern times ...
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... rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together , it must needs fly to Providence and Deity . Nay , even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate ...
... rest in them , and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together , it must needs fly to Providence and Deity . Nay , even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate ...
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... rest of the body in heat , cold , hardness , softness , and such other qualities as we discern by feeling ; and when the action of an ob- ject is continued from the eyes , ears , and other organs to the heart , the real effect there is ...
... rest of the body in heat , cold , hardness , softness , and such other qualities as we discern by feeling ; and when the action of an ob- ject is continued from the eyes , ears , and other organs to the heart , the real effect there is ...
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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.