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... be rational knowledge he did no more than Descartes and little more than Bacon , whose principles did not so logically lead to this issue as his . These three thinkers all referred theology and philosophy 80 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... be rational knowledge he did no more than Descartes and little more than Bacon , whose principles did not so logically lead to this issue as his . These three thinkers all referred theology and philosophy 80 Anti - Theistic Theories .
Page 184
... logically ought . Comte as- sumes material phenomena to be the primary and ultimate known existences , those from which science must start , and on which it must rest . But the least reflection shows us that the assump- tion is wholly ...
... logically ought . Comte as- sumes material phenomena to be the primary and ultimate known existences , those from which science must start , and on which it must rest . But the least reflection shows us that the assump- tion is wholly ...
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... logically and morally impossible . Reason and conscience prescribe a policy which must be conformed to whatever expediency may suggest , and that policy is not one of concealment and evasion . But even an expediency which is real and ...
... logically and morally impossible . Reason and conscience prescribe a policy which must be conformed to whatever expediency may suggest , and that policy is not one of concealment and evasion . But even an expediency which is real and ...
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... logically require us to have re- course . It is as consistent with even the Darwinian form of the development theory that the origin of religion should be at any one point as at any other . It may have been antecedent to the origin of ...
... logically require us to have re- course . It is as consistent with even the Darwinian form of the development theory that the origin of religion should be at any one point as at any other . It may have been antecedent to the origin of ...
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... logically pass over either into atheism or theism . There is no consistent , independent , middle term between these two . What is not the one , ought , logically considered , to be the other . All the Greek gods and goddesses were ...
... logically pass over either into atheism or theism . There is no consistent , independent , middle term between these two . What is not the one , ought , logically considered , to be the other . All the Greek gods and goddesses were ...
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