Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... single , self - consistent system . It is really a series or aggregation of discordant and conflicting systems . At the same time , some 1 See Appendix I. general remarks regarding it may not be without use . What Theism is . 3.
... single , self - consistent system . It is really a series or aggregation of discordant and conflicting systems . At the same time , some 1 See Appendix I. general remarks regarding it may not be without use . What Theism is . 3.
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... 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 witnesses to God's existence as there are ...
... 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 witnesses to God's existence as there are ...
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... single square foot of earth may contain numerous proofs that there is a God , but only the entire universe can furnish evidence that there is none . He who does not know absolutely every agent in the universe cannot be sure that the one ...
... single square foot of earth may contain numerous proofs that there is a God , but only the entire universe can furnish evidence that there is none . He who does not know absolutely every agent in the universe cannot be sure that the one ...
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... single ray of light , mourning over the work of the senseless . energies of nature . When death lays hold of him- self , and he knows that there is no escape , he can only yield himself up to a dread uncertainty , or to the cold comfort ...
... single ray of light , mourning over the work of the senseless . energies of nature . When death lays hold of him- self , and he knows that there is no escape , he can only yield himself up to a dread uncertainty , or to the cold comfort ...
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... single step nearer materialism . All consist- ent theists believe that the progress of physical science has been a continuous illustration of the power , wisdom , and goodness of God . Material- ism cannot be allowed , therefore ...
... single step nearer materialism . All consist- ent theists believe that the progress of physical science has been a continuous illustration of the power , wisdom , and goodness of God . Material- ism cannot be allowed , therefore ...
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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?