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... doctrine which may fill the place of theism , dissension breaks out among them at all points . It is an obvious consequence of the fact that atheism is thus indefinite , divided , and varied , that its chief phases must be discussed ...
... doctrine which may fill the place of theism , dissension breaks out among them at all points . It is an obvious consequence of the fact that atheism is thus indefinite , divided , and varied , that its chief phases must be discussed ...
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... doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded , which has sometimes received the name of autotheism , seeing that it would make man his own God and the creator of the heavens and earth . The celebrated Fichte was , at a certain ...
... doctrine on which a kind of atheism has been founded , which has sometimes received the name of autotheism , seeing that it would make man his own God and the creator of the heavens and earth . The celebrated Fichte was , at a certain ...
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... doctrine , and the views . of man's duty and destiny which were based on it . He believed it to have caused a vast amount of harm to his country , and that no society could long exist which entertained it . A few lines from an essay of ...
... doctrine , and the views . of man's duty and destiny which were based on it . He believed it to have caused a vast amount of harm to his country , and that no society could long exist which entertained it . A few lines from an essay of ...
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... doctrine is the most valuable theory , falling within the sphere of physical science , which modern times have in- herited from antiquity . That all physical things at least may be resolved into atomic elements ; that these elements can ...
... doctrine is the most valuable theory , falling within the sphere of physical science , which modern times have in- herited from antiquity . That all physical things at least may be resolved into atomic elements ; that these elements can ...
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... doctrine of Democritus on the one hand , and from the antagonistic doctrine of the Stoics on the other . It was precisely by means of this conception that Epicurus and Lucretius fancied they escaped the necessity of believing either in ...
... doctrine of Democritus on the one hand , and from the antagonistic doctrine of the Stoics on the other . It was precisely by means of this conception that Epicurus and Lucretius fancied they escaped the necessity of believing either in ...
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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.