Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought ...
... living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted . It has been held to be absolutely impossible for a man entirely to throw off belief in God . The thought ...
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... living creature had been there ; but he would require to traverse the whole island , and examine every nook and corner , every object and every inch of space in it , before he was entitled to affirm that no living creature had been ...
... living creature had been there ; but he would require to traverse the whole island , and examine every nook and corner , every object and every inch of space in it , before he was entitled to affirm that no living creature had been ...
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... living things . Epicurus pronounced the fatalism of the physicists and philosophers even more disquieting and discouraging than superstition ; the goodwill of the gods might be gained by honouring them , but there are no means by which ...
... living things . Epicurus pronounced the fatalism of the physicists and philosophers even more disquieting and discouraging than superstition ; the goodwill of the gods might be gained by honouring them , but there are no means by which ...
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... living creatures here on earth , whence , I ask , has been wrested from the fates the power by which we go forward whither the will leads . each , by which likewise we change the direction of our motions neither at a fixed time nor ...
... living creatures here on earth , whence , I ask , has been wrested from the fates the power by which we go forward whither the will leads . each , by which likewise we change the direction of our motions neither at a fixed time nor ...
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... living creatures issued from the earth ; how speech was invented ; how society originated and governments were insti- tuted ; how civilisation commenced ; and in what ways religion gained an entry into men's hearts . He thoroughly ...
... living creatures issued from the earth ; how speech was invented ; how society originated and governments were insti- tuted ; how civilisation commenced ; and in what ways religion gained an entry into men's hearts . He thoroughly ...
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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.