Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... deny that it has such a foundation . But obviously more than this may and should be done . It is our right and our ... deny that there is a Deity ; but it is anti - theistic , since it denies that there is only one . Pantheism is not ...
... deny that it has such a foundation . But obviously more than this may and should be done . It is our right and our ... deny that there is a Deity ; but it is anti - theistic , since it denies that there is only one . Pantheism is not ...
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... denies that there is a Divine Being , or it denies that the human mind is capable of discovering whether or not there is a Divine Being , or it simply maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced ...
... denies that there is a Divine Being , or it denies that the human mind is capable of discovering whether or not there is a Divine Being , or it simply maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced ...
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... denied . When men teach the most manifest and explicit atheism when they avow themselves to be atheists - when they glory in the name - we must take them at their word . To say that they do not conscientiously believe what they teach is ...
... denied . When men teach the most manifest and explicit atheism when they avow themselves to be atheists - when they glory in the name - we must take them at their word . To say that they do not conscientiously believe what they teach is ...
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... nothing testifies to His existence , we must know all things . The territory which has in this case to be surveyed and investigated is the universe in all its length and breadth ; it is The Denial that there is a God . 9.
... nothing testifies to His existence , we must know all things . The territory which has in this case to be surveyed and investigated is the universe in all its length and breadth ; it is The Denial that there is a God . 9.
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... denial " and " knowledge . " There is not the slightest foundation for such a notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word ...
... denial " and " knowledge . " There is not the slightest foundation for such a notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.