Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... Deity ; but it is anti - theistic , since it denies that there is only one . Pantheism is not atheism , for it admits that there is a God ; but it is anti - theism , for it denies that God is a Being dis- tinct from creation and ...
... Deity ; but it is anti - theistic , since it denies that there is only one . Pantheism is not atheism , for it admits that there is a God ; but it is anti - theism , for it denies that God is a Being dis- tinct from creation and ...
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... Deity , by which even he would be overpowered . If he does not know absolutely every agent in the universe , the one that he does not know may be the eternal source of all life . If he is not himself the chief agent in the universe ...
... Deity , by which even he would be overpowered . If he does not know absolutely every agent in the universe , the one that he does not know may be the eternal source of all life . If he is not himself the chief agent in the universe ...
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... be , above all , terrible . Nature stands . to him in place of Deity , but is the mere embodi- ment of force , the god of the iron foot , without ear for prayer , or heart for sympathy , or arm Atheism , Art , and Nature . 29.
... be , above all , terrible . Nature stands . to him in place of Deity , but is the mere embodi- ment of force , the god of the iron foot , without ear for prayer , or heart for sympathy , or arm Atheism , Art , and Nature . 29.
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... Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar phenomena . He thus laid the foundation and drew the plan of a sys- tem of ...
... Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar phenomena . He thus laid the foundation and drew the plan of a sys- tem of ...
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... Deity and of the world to come . If men in their abhorrence of these religions unhappily rejected all religion , we must pity them even more than we condemn them . But we live in a later and more favoured age , when God has been clearly ...
... Deity and of the world to come . If men in their abhorrence of these religions unhappily rejected all religion , we must pity them even more than we condemn them . But we live in a later and more favoured age , when God has been clearly ...
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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...
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