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... experience teaches us nothing . It is perhaps impossible to fix precisely where the history of materialism begins . To say that it is " as old but not older than philosophy , " is to say nothing , unless you say how old philosophy is ...
... experience teaches us nothing . It is perhaps impossible to fix precisely where the history of materialism begins . To say that it is " as old but not older than philosophy , " is to say nothing , unless you say how old philosophy is ...
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... experience of misery , and described as ir rational and mischievous in all its forms . The only notion of God which is not absurd is held to be that which identifies Him with the moving power Materialism in France . 87.
... experience of misery , and described as ir rational and mischievous in all its forms . The only notion of God which is not absurd is held to be that which identifies Him with the moving power Materialism in France . 87.
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... experiences ; includes the habit of contemplat- ing nature ; the faculty of observing her laws , which , in short , embraces the comprehensive study of the causes producing her various phenomena -her multiplied combinations , together ...
... experiences ; includes the habit of contemplat- ing nature ; the faculty of observing her laws , which , in short , embraces the comprehensive study of the causes producing her various phenomena -her multiplied combinations , together ...
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... experience confirms , and on which all physical and mechanical calculations are based , -namely , that matter moves only as it is moved -that if not acted on it will never move — and that if once set in motion it will only cease mov ...
... experience confirms , and on which all physical and mechanical calculations are based , -namely , that matter moves only as it is moved -that if not acted on it will never move — and that if once set in motion it will only cease mov ...
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... experience , when reflec- tion , when the evidence of all we contemplate , warrants the idea that this ineffable Being has ren- dered nature competent to every effect , by giving her those irrevocable laws , that eternal , unchange ...
... experience , when reflec- tion , when the evidence of all we contemplate , warrants the idea that this ineffable Being has ren- dered nature competent to every effect , by giving her those irrevocable laws , that eternal , unchange ...
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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.