Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... atoms - the empty and the full . The atoms , infinite in number , moving in infinite space , give rise to infinite worlds . These atoms are eter- nal , and they are imperishable . There is no 50 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... atoms - the empty and the full . The atoms , infinite in number , moving in infinite space , give rise to infinite worlds . These atoms are eter- nal , and they are imperishable . There is no 50 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... atoms which compose them . Water differs from iron merely because the atoms of the former are smooth and round , and do not fit into but roll over each other ; while those of the latter are jagged and uneven and densely packed together ...
... atoms which compose them . Water differs from iron merely because the atoms of the former are smooth and round , and do not fit into but roll over each other ; while those of the latter are jagged and uneven and densely packed together ...
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... atoms move , and how do they so combine as to give rise to a world at once so orderly and varied ? He answered that nothing happened at random , but everything according to law and necessity ; that the atoms were infinite in number and ...
... atoms move , and how do they so combine as to give rise to a world at once so orderly and varied ? He answered that nothing happened at random , but everything according to law and necessity ; that the atoms were infinite in number and ...
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... atoms to be real . But what evidence had he as a materialist and sensationalist for his atoms ? None of his senses could apprehend them ; and although sense was so little to be trusted , there was nothing on his principles , and can be ...
... atoms to be real . But what evidence had he as a materialist and sensationalist for his atoms ? None of his senses could apprehend them ; and although sense was so little to be trusted , there was nothing on his principles , and can be ...
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... atomic materialism of the present day is still substantial- ly the materialism which Epicurus and Lucretius propounded . It seems necessary , therefore , and may not be without present interest , to consider briefly the principles and ...
... atomic materialism of the present day is still substantial- ly the materialism which Epicurus and Lucretius propounded . It seems necessary , therefore , and may not be without present interest , to consider briefly the principles and ...
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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?