Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 páginas |
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... 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 creatures ...
... 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 creatures ...
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... animal life , nor the mind of man , nor his 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 ...
... animal life , nor the mind of man , nor his 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 ...
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... animal appetite . For true it is , as an eloquent preacher has said , in words which I can- not exactly recall , but which are nearly as follows : " There is on earth a greater misfortune than to crave for bread and not to have it , and ...
... animal appetite . For true it is , as an eloquent preacher has said , in words which I can- not exactly recall , but which are nearly as follows : " There is on earth a greater misfortune than to crave for bread and not to have it , and ...
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... animal - worship , na- ture - worship , have all their root in this mental incapacity . All these forms of religion may with almost as much propriety be called materialistic as the professedly materialistic theories of the recent ...
... animal - worship , na- ture - worship , have all their root in this mental incapacity . All these forms of religion may with almost as much propriety be called materialistic as the professedly materialistic theories of the recent ...
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... animal frame . Plato strove to show that all phenomena presupposed eternal ideas , and that these gradually led up to the Supreme Idea — the highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in ...
... animal frame . Plato strove to show that all phenomena presupposed eternal ideas , and that these gradually led up to the Supreme Idea — the highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in ...
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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 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
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.