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... moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as dependent , finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all ...
... moral law which implies a moral lawgiver . He can only be con- scious of himself as dependent , finite , and imper- fect , and consequently as distinguished from that which is absolute , infinite , and perfect . In this sense all ...
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... moral aspects , than to return on what has been already done , or at least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . There How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which ...
... moral aspects , than to return on what has been already done , or at least , on what has been already tried to be done.1 II . There How does atheism satisfy the intellect ? is around us a world of order and beauty ; a world in which ...
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... moral principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
... moral principles and religious convictions . It puts what is lowest and most imperfect first , what is highest and most perfect last . It regards this contradiction of all rational thinking as a grand achievement . There is an atheism ...
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... moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded the personal with the absolute ...
... moral order of the universe which he identified with God was , like the universe itself , the creation of the personal ego . But he indig- nantly repelled the charge and denied that he had ever confounded the personal with the absolute ...
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... moral Judge and Governor ? And 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 ...
... moral Judge and Governor ? And 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 ...
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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 172 - ... 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.