Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... LIBRARY VEIRI TAS ( Class of 1814 ) President of Harvard College " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " ANTI - THEISTIC THEORIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR . THEISM. FROM THE BEQUEST OF JAMES WALKER.
... LIBRARY VEIRI TAS ( Class of 1814 ) President of Harvard College " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " ANTI - THEISTIC THEORIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR . THEISM. FROM THE BEQUEST OF JAMES WALKER.
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... moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as dependent , finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all ...
... moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as dependent , finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all ...
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... moral aspects , than to return on what has been already done , or at least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . There How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which ...
... moral aspects , than to return on what has been already done , or at least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . There How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which ...
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... moral principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
... moral principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
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... moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded the personal with the absolute ...
... moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded the personal with the absolute ...
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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?