Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... books - the three Vedas -were composed by rogues or buffoons . exercises of religion and the practices of asceticism are merely a means of livelihood for men devoid of intellect and manliness . The sole end - the only reasonable end ...
... books - the three Vedas -were composed by rogues or buffoons . exercises of religion and the practices of asceticism are merely a means of livelihood for men devoid of intellect and manliness . The sole end - the only reasonable end ...
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... book which perplexed for a time the mind of Chalmers , has , doubtless , fatally perverted the judgment of many an average intellect . A distinctive feature of the work is the explicit- ness with which the idea of God is assailed - with ...
... book which perplexed for a time the mind of Chalmers , has , doubtless , fatally perverted the judgment of many an average intellect . A distinctive feature of the work is the explicit- ness with which the idea of God is assailed - with ...
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... book he is ever and again vindicating , glorifying , and invok- ing nature as a kind of deity . What is this , for example , but prayer to nature as to a god , but worship of an unenlightened and inconsistent kind ? “ O nature ...
... book he is ever and again vindicating , glorifying , and invok- ing nature as a kind of deity . What is this , for example , but prayer to nature as to a god , but worship of an unenlightened and inconsistent kind ? “ O nature ...
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... Book of Moral Philosophy , pp . 235 , 236 . Force may be conceived of as neither the effect of matter nor co - ordinate with it , but its cause . This is a not uncommon view , and much may be urged in its support . But obviously , if it ...
... Book of Moral Philosophy , pp . 235 , 236 . Force may be conceived of as neither the effect of matter nor co - ordinate with it , but its cause . This is a not uncommon view , and much may be urged in its support . But obviously , if it ...
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... books which he took credit to him- self for having written ; that the apparent evi- dences of mind in these works were ... book we can legiti- mately rise to the mind of the author as at least one of the causes of its existence , a ...
... books which he took credit to him- self for having written ; that the apparent evi- dences of mind in these works were ... book we can legiti- mately rise to the mind of the author as at least one of the causes of its existence , a ...
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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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?