Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... idea of an intelligent First Cause , " says Mazzini , " once destroyed , -the existence of a moral law , supreme over men , and constituting an obligation , a duty imposed upon all men , is destroyed with it ; so also all possibility of ...
... idea of an intelligent First Cause , " says Mazzini , " once destroyed , -the existence of a moral law , supreme over men , and constituting an obligation , a duty imposed upon all men , is destroyed with it ; so also all possibility of ...
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... ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than unessentially modify the verdict which history so long unhesitatingly pronounced ...
... ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than unessentially modify the verdict which history so long unhesitatingly pronounced ...
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... idea which Anaxagoras had introduced into Greek philosophy - the idea , that the order in the universe could only be accounted for by the work- ing of an Eternal Reason was welcomed by Socrates , and shaped with admirable art into the ...
... idea which Anaxagoras had introduced into Greek philosophy - the idea , that the order in the universe could only be accounted for by the work- ing of an Eternal Reason was welcomed by Socrates , and shaped with admirable art into the ...
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... ideas are more than two thousand years old . They lay at the very founda- tion of the atomic philosophy . All that the most recent science has done in regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments ...
... ideas are more than two thousand years old . They lay at the very founda- tion of the atomic philosophy . All that the most recent science has done in regard to them has been to verify them in particular instances by exact experiments ...
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... idea of God is assailed - with which His existence is denied . Epicurus and Lucretius , even , in spite of their anxiety to throw off the yoke of religion , did not refuse to believe that there were gods , but only that they acted on ...
... idea of God is assailed - with which His existence is denied . Epicurus and Lucretius , even , in spite of their anxiety to throw off the yoke of religion , did not refuse to believe that there were gods , but only that they acted 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.