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... unity . It is an aggregate of parts , each of which is as much a substance as the whole . You ' may take a portion of it from one place and another portion of it from another place - a yard , say , or a mile distant - and these portions ...
... unity . It is an aggregate of parts , each of which is as much a substance as the whole . You ' may take a portion of it from one place and another portion of it from another place - a yard , say , or a mile distant - and these portions ...
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... unity or monism of the materialist ? It vanishes , and in its place there emerges a dual- ity by which he cannot fail to be embarrassed . But the difficulty which he has now to encounter has been so accurately and comprehensively stated ...
... unity or monism of the materialist ? It vanishes , and in its place there emerges a dual- ity by which he cannot fail to be embarrassed . But the difficulty which he has now to encounter has been so accurately and comprehensively stated ...
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... unity ? Cer- tainly not . As physical force - force indissolubly associated with a material manifestation - it could merely be force of one kind , not one force . It must necessarily be as divisible , as multiple , as its 138 Anti ...
... unity ? Cer- tainly not . As physical force - force indissolubly associated with a material manifestation - it could merely be force of one kind , not one force . It must necessarily be as divisible , as multiple , as its 138 Anti ...
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... unity either in mere matter or mere physical force . If reason is to find the unity it seeks , it must go farther and deeper ; it must not stop short of an immaterial cause of matter , of an indivisible source of divisible forces , of a ...
... unity either in mere matter or mere physical force . If reason is to find the unity it seeks , it must go farther and deeper ; it must not stop short of an immaterial cause of matter , of an indivisible source of divisible forces , of a ...
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... unity which results from juxtaposition and arrangement , but in no degree the unity of reciprocal action and influence which belongs alike to the simplest and the most complex of living beings . In every plant and animal the whole is ...
... unity which results from juxtaposition and arrangement , but in no degree the unity of reciprocal action and influence which belongs alike to the simplest and the most complex of living beings . In every plant and animal the whole 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.