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... religion , is more than two thousand years old . His admiration for , and faith in , Lucretius are unbounded . He remarks , with evident satisfaction , Lucretius ' notions that the mechanical shock of atoms is the all - sufficient cause ...
... religion , is more than two thousand years old . His admiration for , and faith in , Lucretius are unbounded . He remarks , with evident satisfaction , Lucretius ' notions that the mechanical shock of atoms is the all - sufficient cause ...
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... religion in antagonism to science , as if we were living in the days of the Inquisition , and it was necessary for Dr. Tyndall to come forward as the champion of free - thought . Never has there been a time of such entire civil and ...
... religion in antagonism to science , as if we were living in the days of the Inquisition , and it was necessary for Dr. Tyndall to come forward as the champion of free - thought . Never has there been a time of such entire civil and ...
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... religions . Carried away by this hostile spirit , he seems determined to deprive the poor disbeliever in the almighty atom of every crumb of comfort , for , when speaking of Newton , he says : " When the human mind has achieved ...
... religions . Carried away by this hostile spirit , he seems determined to deprive the poor disbeliever in the almighty atom of every crumb of comfort , for , when speaking of Newton , he says : " When the human mind has achieved ...
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... religious truth , but was especially so , from the fact of his having devoted much time and attention to theological subjects , as is proved by his work on the Prophecies , and his letters on the existence of a Deity , written at the ...
... religious truth , but was especially so , from the fact of his having devoted much time and attention to theological subjects , as is proved by his work on the Prophecies , and his letters on the existence of a Deity , written at the ...
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... religious truth . Although he was the greatest natural philoso- pher that ever lived , there was in him none of that conceit or intellectual pride so conspicuous in the writings of many of the physiologists and philosophers of the ...
... religious truth . Although he was the greatest natural philoso- pher that ever lived , there was in him none of that conceit or intellectual pride so conspicuous in the writings of many of the physiologists and philosophers of the ...
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Página 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Página 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Página 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Página 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Página 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Página 65 - 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.