Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? There is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which elements are wonderfully compounded and qualities wonderfully associated ...
... least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? There is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which elements are wonderfully compounded and qualities wonderfully associated ...
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... least in connection with it . They have never flourished except in a spiritual atmo- sphere which is the breath of religious faith . Atheism unbelief- has , alike in ancient and in modern times , and in all lands , been found fatal to ...
... least in connection with it . They have never flourished except in a spiritual atmo- sphere which is the breath of religious faith . Atheism unbelief- has , alike in ancient and in modern times , and in all lands , been found fatal to ...
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... least a very definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There ...
... least a very definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of heterogeneous theories . There ...
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... - herited from antiquity . That all physical things at least may be resolved into atomic elements ; that these elements can neither be created nor destroyed , neither increased nor diminished in number , by 58 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... - herited from antiquity . That all physical things at least may be resolved into atomic elements ; that these elements can neither be created nor destroyed , neither increased nor diminished in number , by 58 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... least to lessen what of it remained . The atoms are numberless , ungenerated , infran- gible , unchangeable , indestructible . Their only qualities are form , magnitude , and density ; and their variations in these respects account for ...
... least to lessen what of it remained . The atoms are numberless , ungenerated , infran- gible , unchangeable , indestructible . Their only qualities are form , magnitude , and density ; and their variations in these respects account for ...
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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.