Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , • · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWledge , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , • • · IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , · 450 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , 459 VJ . CHINESE.
... ATHEISM , AND ANTI- THEISM , • · 441 II . ABSOLUTE ATHEISM IMPLIES INFINITE KNOWledge , . 446 III . PHYSICUS , • • · IV . HISTORY , CAUSES , AND CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM , · 450 456 V. LANGE'S HISTORY OF MATERIALISM , 459 VJ . CHINESE.
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... and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against atheism Existence of Atheism . 5.
... and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all theists will probably hold that the soul bears within it a latent and implicit testimony against atheism Existence of Atheism . 5.
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... infinite and eternal God . The number of those who have gone this length may not have been so large as it has sometimes been represented . Many have certainly been called atheists unjustly and ca- lumniously . Some may possibly have ...
... infinite and eternal God . The number of those who have gone this length may not have been so large as it has sometimes been represented . Many have certainly been called atheists unjustly and ca- lumniously . Some may possibly have ...
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... infinite existence himself - he does not know that the nature whose supremacy he rejects , does not self - subsist and act on its own eternal essence . " Foster's argument is here travestied , but certainly not answered . Where is the ...
... infinite existence himself - he does not know that the nature whose supremacy he rejects , does not self - subsist and act on its own eternal essence . " Foster's argument is here travestied , but certainly not answered . Where is the ...
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... infinite mind , suppos- ing such a mind to exist . It assumes , that is to say , in the first place , a kind of knowledge of the human mind such as no man has got . We can discover the conditions and laws to which reason- ing and ...
... infinite mind , suppos- ing such a mind to exist . It assumes , that is to say , in the first place , a kind of knowledge of the human mind such as no man has got . We can discover the conditions and laws to which reason- ing and ...
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Página 158 - 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 382 - 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 170 - ... 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 170 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...
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Página 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.