Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... tion missionaries who , I fear , are better qualified for their work than many of those whom our Churches send forth to advocate to the same classes the cause of Christianity . There is a great deal Prevalence of Atheism . 37.
... tion missionaries who , I fear , are better qualified for their work than many of those whom our Churches send forth to advocate to the same classes the cause of Christianity . There is a great deal Prevalence of Atheism . 37.
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... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... tion or scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively ...
... tion or scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively ...
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... tion , for it to lead to materialism . The tendency of speculation , of refined and disciplined reflection , of thought which seeks really to comprehend what it has before it , is , if history may be credited , to get beyond matter ...
... tion , for it to lead to materialism . The tendency of speculation , of refined and disciplined reflection , of thought which seeks really to comprehend what it has before it , is , if history may be credited , to get beyond matter ...
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... tion of the era of the Sophists . The men who are known in history under this designation are now generally admitted to have been until re- cently represented as even worse than they were . They may certainly be credited with having ren ...
... tion of the era of the Sophists . The men who are known in history under this designation are now generally admitted to have been until re- cently represented as even worse than they were . They may certainly be credited with having ren ...
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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?