Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... tribes , and even some highly culti- vated nations , wholly composed of atheists . The belief to which in ancient times Cicero and Plutarch in well - known passages gave eloquent expression- the belief that wherever men exist they have ...
... tribes , and even some highly culti- vated nations , wholly composed of atheists . The belief to which in ancient times Cicero and Plutarch in well - known passages gave eloquent expression- the belief that wherever men exist they have ...
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... tribes and nations which have no religious beliefs or prac- tices whatever ? is a question as to a matter of fact . It ought to be decided , therefore , solely by an ap- peal to facts . But it is very apt to be decided , and has very ...
... tribes and nations which have no religious beliefs or prac- tices whatever ? is a question as to a matter of fact . It ought to be decided , therefore , solely by an ap- peal to facts . But it is very apt to be decided , and has very ...
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... tribes which have no conception of the supernatural , little , it seems to me , would be proved either for or against religion . It would only show that circum- stances might be so unfavourable , and the minds of men so inactive , dark ...
... tribes which have no conception of the supernatural , little , it seems to me , would be proved either for or against religion . It would only show that circum- stances might be so unfavourable , and the minds of men so inactive , dark ...
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... tribes . When a traveller tells us that he found among the natives of some barbarous land no traces of religious belief , we must consider whether or not he had the means and opportunities required to arrive at the truth in the matter ...
... tribes . When a traveller tells us that he found among the natives of some barbarous land no traces of religious belief , we must consider whether or not he had the means and opportunities required to arrive at the truth in the matter ...
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... tribe has reached us , we should distrust its denial by observers whose acquaintance with the tribe in question has not been ... tribes have been called atheists by those who could find R among them no traces of belief in the one true ...
... tribe has reached us , we should distrust its denial by observers whose acquaintance with the tribe in question has not been ... tribes have been called atheists by those who could find R among them no traces of belief in the one true ...
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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.