Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... objects to them because of the opprobrium which has gath- ered round them . The people who fight for old nationalities remember the words of opprobrium that have been heaped on their country and their cause , but only to fight to redeem ...
... objects to them because of the opprobrium which has gath- ered round them . The people who fight for old nationalities remember the words of opprobrium that have been heaped on their country and their cause , but only to fight to redeem ...
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... object and every inch of space in it , before he was entitled to affirm that no living creature had been there . The larger the territory to be traversed and examined , the more difficult would it necessarily be to show that it had not ...
... object and every inch of space in it , before he was entitled to affirm that no living creature had been there . The larger the territory to be traversed and examined , the more difficult would it necessarily be to show that it had not ...
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... objects which occupy space . Before a man can be war- ranted to affirm that nowhere throughout all this territory is there any trace of God's existence , he must have seen it all and comprehended it all , which would require ...
... objects which occupy space . Before a man can be war- ranted to affirm that nowhere throughout all this territory is there any trace of God's existence , he must have seen it all and comprehended it all , which would require ...
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... . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism , incredible as it may sound , which teaches that the universe , with all its objects 22 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism , incredible as it may sound , which teaches that the universe , with all its objects 22 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... objects and laws , is the creation of the finite human mind . . What we call outward things are , according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so ...
... objects and laws , is the creation of the finite human mind . . What we call outward things are , according to this hypothesis , but mental states . All that is is ego ; is the self - acting of itself and limiting itself , and so ...
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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?