Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... question is surely one which answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the ...
... question is surely one which answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the ...
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... question is , Can truth and good- ness be at variance with one another ? Can the belief of falsehood be more favourable to the moral perfection of mankind than the belief of truth ? The most intrepid lover of truth may well hesitate ...
... question is , Can truth and good- ness be at variance with one another ? Can the belief of falsehood be more favourable to the moral perfection of mankind than the belief of truth ? The most intrepid lover of truth may well hesitate ...
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... question , Was mind before matter or matter before mind ? The Jews seem to have been the first nation raised above such materialism , and raised also , in consequence , above pantheism to a true theism . It is the Bible which has ...
... question , Was mind before matter or matter before mind ? The Jews seem to have been the first nation raised above such materialism , and raised also , in consequence , above pantheism to a true theism . It is the Bible which has ...
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... question that the high reputation which he gained for moral worth - for modesty , disinterestedness , integrity , for cheerful wisdom , for love of truth— was well merited . The views of moral life which he inculcated are the very best ...
... question that the high reputation which he gained for moral worth - for modesty , disinterestedness , integrity , for cheerful wisdom , for love of truth— was well merited . The views of moral life which he inculcated are the very best ...
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... question , Why do the 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 ...
... question , Why do the 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 ...
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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 monism moral nature necessarily never Nirvana notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles Professor 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?