Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may be very easy , but to prove that there is certainly none must be extremely difficult , if not impossible . There may be as many ...
... necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may be very easy , but to prove that there is certainly none must be extremely difficult , if not impossible . There may be as many ...
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... necessarily that the inference that there is a God may be warranted by a very limited know- ledge of nature , but that the inference that there is no God can only be warranted by a complete knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned ...
... necessarily that the inference that there is a God may be warranted by a very limited know- ledge of nature , but that the inference that there is no God can only be warranted by a complete knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned ...
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... necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was directly to repel the objections which atheism has brought against the validity and sufficiency of the fundamental theistic proofs ; to ...
... necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was directly to repel the objections which atheism has brought against the validity and sufficiency of the fundamental theistic proofs ; to ...
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... . A system like this manifestly contains in itself the germs of its own contradiction and destruction . It tends necessarily to sensationalism and scepti- cism , and both of these devour , as it 52 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... . A system like this manifestly contains in itself the germs of its own contradiction and destruction . It tends necessarily to sensationalism and scepti- cism , and both of these devour , as it 52 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... necessarily in order , we are told , since everything acts and moves according to constant and invariable laws ; confusion is consequently impossible . But as it is at the same time admitted that a series of motions or actions ...
... necessarily in order , we are told , since everything acts and moves according to constant and invariable laws ; confusion is consequently impossible . But as it is at the same time admitted that a series of motions or actions ...
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absolute unity absolutely infinite admit affirms animal answer Appendix argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe Bradlaugh Brahma Buddha Buddhism called cause Christianity Comte conceived consciousness creation Crown 8vo definite deism Deity Democritus deny distinct Divine doctrine Edition Epicureans Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain fact Fcap finite force Hegel Holyoake idea ignorance implies infinite intellect intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge lecture Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintained materialism materialistic matter mental merely metaphysical monism moral nature necessarily never Nirvana notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles proved reason regard religion religious represented scepticism Schopenhauer scientific secularism secularist self-existent sensation sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth uncon universe vols whole words worship
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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?