Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 |
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... never been exactly realised . Sceptical atheism and critical atheism are inseparable . A purely dogmatic atheism would be utterly incredible . Sceptical atheism and critical atheism have always been much more prevalent than dogmatic ...
... never been exactly realised . Sceptical atheism and critical atheism are inseparable . A purely dogmatic atheism would be utterly incredible . Sceptical atheism and critical atheism have always been much more prevalent than dogmatic ...
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... never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God . What powers , what ...
... never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God . What powers , what ...
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... never be sure that there is no God , and can never have a right to deny that there is a God . It must simply affirm that theism has not been proved true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a ...
... never be sure that there is no God , and can never have a right to deny that there is a God . It must simply affirm that theism has not been proved true , and must abandon the hope of ever proving it to be false . It must rest in a ...
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... never ascertain to be true , but also here is a proposition which cannot be re- vealed to be true even by an ... never be known , never be proved , is sheer dogmatism . The mind has no right to assign fixed limits to its 14 Anti ...
... never ascertain to be true , but also here is a proposition which cannot be re- vealed to be true even by an ... never be known , never be proved , is sheer dogmatism . The mind has no right to assign fixed limits to its 14 Anti ...
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... never know even the existence of an almighty Being , and in the next that he himself knows what such a Being could not do ; that he knows that God could not make His existence known to us . Under the apparent humility of the declaration ...
... never know even the existence of an almighty Being , and in the next that he himself knows what such a Being could not do ; that he knows that God could not make His existence known to us . Under the apparent humility of the declaration ...
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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.