Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... distinct from , and independent of , what He has created . In the course which I have under- taken to deliver this year , I wish to subject to examination the theories which are opposed to theism , and I hope to be able to prove that ...
... distinct from , and independent of , what He has created . In the course which I have under- taken to deliver this year , I wish to subject to examination the theories which are opposed to theism , and I hope to be able to prove that ...
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... distinct . When the atheist declares , therefore , that God cannot be known , he dogmatises presumptuously as to the limits of human power ; he arrogates to him- self a superhuman knowledge of the possible at- tainments of the human ...
... distinct . When the atheist declares , therefore , that God cannot be known , he dogmatises presumptuously as to the limits of human power ; he arrogates to him- self a superhuman knowledge of the possible at- tainments of the human ...
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... distinct from religion as from atheism . Superstition and athe- ism are both contraries to religion , and , as was long ago remarked , are closely akin . They are re- lated to religion as the alternating feverish heat and shivering cold ...
... distinct from religion as from atheism . Superstition and athe- ism are both contraries to religion , and , as was long ago remarked , are closely akin . They are re- lated to religion as the alternating feverish heat and shivering cold ...
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... distinct and marked advance over Chinese and Hindu materialism , or any of the previous Greek philosophies which had attempted to explain the world by physical principles . The soul Democritus regarded as only a body within the body ...
... distinct and marked advance over Chinese and Hindu materialism , or any of the previous Greek philosophies which had attempted to explain the world by physical principles . The soul Democritus regarded as only a body within the body ...
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... distinct sources . They represented the one as having nothing to do with the other ; as having each an authority of its own ; as having each a province in which for the other to enter is an act of usurpation . They drew the sharpest ...
... distinct sources . They represented the one as having nothing to do with the other ; as having each an authority of its own ; as having each a province in which for the other to enter is an act of usurpation . They drew the sharpest ...
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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?