Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... spirits , who had in the fulness of time made a special and perfect revela- tion of His character and will in Jesus Christ . Before the light and power of this belief , ancient materialism , like ancient polytheism , faded and withered ...
... spirits , who had in the fulness of time made a special and perfect revela- tion of His character and will in Jesus Christ . Before the light and power of this belief , ancient materialism , like ancient polytheism , faded and withered ...
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... spirit . The consequence is plain , —there can be no science , no philosophy of spirit . Spirit even as finite is beyond comprehension , beyond the range of experiment and sense , and therefore beyond reasoning and beyond science ; and ...
... spirit . The consequence is plain , —there can be no science , no philosophy of spirit . Spirit even as finite is beyond comprehension , beyond the range of experiment and sense , and therefore beyond reasoning and beyond science ; and ...
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... spirit- uality of the soul . What materialism there was in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , it must be added , was triumphantly answered . The refutations of materialism were not only far more numerous than the ...
... spirit- uality of the soul . What materialism there was in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , it must be added , was triumphantly answered . The refutations of materialism were not only far more numerous than the ...
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... spirit takes possession of its author , and causes him utterly to forget that he is the avowed enemy of theism , and a believer only in matter and motion . Witness a passage like the following , which is in direct con- tradiction to the ...
... spirit takes possession of its author , and causes him utterly to forget that he is the avowed enemy of theism , and a believer only in matter and motion . Witness a passage like the following , which is in direct con- tradiction to the ...
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... meaning can be attached . Holbach , believing that there is no God , and that all that is called spirit in man is merely a modification of the body , naturally denies both immortality and 94 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... meaning can be attached . Holbach , believing that there is no God , and that all that is called spirit in man is merely a modification of the body , naturally denies both immortality and 94 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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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.