Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... evil desires are not checked by the feeling that Infinite Justice beholds them and condemns , nor are his strivings after God sustained by the con- sciousness that the Almighty and All - merciful ap- proves and favours them . When he ...
... evil desires are not checked by the feeling that Infinite Justice beholds them and condemns , nor are his strivings after God sustained by the con- sciousness that the Almighty and All - merciful ap- proves and favours them . When he ...
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... evil , nor need the sceptical philosophers be denied to have been largely instrumental in diffusing salu- tary truths as well as pernicious errors . We may give all due justice to the Revolution and its authors and yet hold that its ...
... evil , nor need the sceptical philosophers be denied to have been largely instrumental in diffusing salu- tary truths as well as pernicious errors . We may give all due justice to the Revolution and its authors and yet hold that its ...
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... evil , strength and weak- ness , of the present , and to forecast the future ; to assign to every science , every large scientific gen- eralisation , every principle and function of human nature , and every great social force , its ...
... evil , strength and weak- ness , of the present , and to forecast the future ; to assign to every science , every large scientific gen- eralisation , every principle and function of human nature , and every great social force , its ...
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... evil cause will be more energetically opposed , with- out faith in God and His eternal mercy and justice than with it . Where the love of God is not , love to man will certainly not be stronger in consequence . A second secularist ...
... evil cause will be more energetically opposed , with- out faith in God and His eternal mercy and justice than with it . Where the love of God is not , love to man will certainly not be stronger in consequence . A second secularist ...
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Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. happiness . Evil can be warded off and good can be obtained only by following the directions of science ; prayer is useless , experience proving that it receives no answer ; dependence on ...
Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. happiness . Evil can be warded off and good can be obtained only by following the directions of science ; prayer is useless , experience proving that it receives no answer ; dependence on ...
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absolute unity absolutely infinite affirm animal argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe body Bradlaugh Buddha Buddhism called cause Christian Comte conceived consciousness creation Crown 8vo definite deism Deity Democritus deny Descartes distinct Divine doctrine earth Epicurean Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain fact Fcap finite force Hegel Holyoake idea ignorance implies infinite intellectual intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge lecture Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintain materialism materialistic matter mental merely metaphysical monism moral nature necessarily never notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles Professor proved reason regard religion religious scepticism Schopenhauer scientific Second Edition secularism secularist self-existent sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth universe University of Edinburgh vols words worship
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.