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... means agreed among themselves . On the con- trary , if their comparatively small number be taken into account , they are far more divided into sects than theists . They are at one only in their utter rejection of theism . I am not aware ...
... means agreed among themselves . On the con- trary , if their comparatively small number be taken into account , they are far more divided into sects than theists . They are at one only in their utter rejection of theism . I am not aware ...
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... mean an existence other than the existence of which I am a mode , then I deny God , and affirm that it is impossible God can be . That is , I affirm one existence , and deny that there can be more than one . " But the terms " existence ...
... mean an existence other than the existence of which I am a mode , then I deny God , and affirm that it is impossible God can be . That is , I affirm one existence , and deny that there can be more than one . " But the terms " existence ...
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... mean boon , no slight service . But so far from being able to supply the place of the love of God , the love of the beautiful itself withers and corrupts , becomes weak or be- comes foul , severed from that love . Art of a high and ...
... mean boon , no slight service . But so far from being able to supply the place of the love of God , the love of the beautiful itself withers and corrupts , becomes weak or be- comes foul , severed from that love . Art of a high and ...
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... audacious . If it were never unreasonably hopeful and ambi- tious , its achievements would be comparatively few and mean . The material universe can be under - estimated as well as over - estimated , 40 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... audacious . If it were never unreasonably hopeful and ambi- tious , its achievements would be comparatively few and mean . The material universe can be under - estimated as well as over - estimated , 40 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... mean- ness , are not in one's power ; neither is that condition of putridity , decay , and utter disap- pearance . A man's life is not in his own hands , nor is his death ; his intelligence is not his own , nor is his stupidity , nor ...
... mean- ness , are not in one's power ; neither is that condition of putridity , decay , and utter disap- pearance . A man's life is not in his own hands , nor is his death ; his intelligence is not his own , nor is his stupidity , nor ...
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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.