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... phenomena of the world are produced spontaneously from the inherent nature of things , and there is nothing supernatural - no God , no fate even , no other world , no final liberation , no recompense for acts . Prosperity is heaven and ...
... phenomena of the world are produced spontaneously from the inherent nature of things , and there is nothing supernatural - no God , no fate even , no other world , no final liberation , no recompense for acts . Prosperity is heaven and ...
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... phenomena of the universe into a single material first principle , such as water , or air , or fire ; or rather , it began by conjecturing how all things might have been evolved from such a principle . And yet it was not merely ...
... phenomena of the universe into a single material first principle , such as water , or air , or fire ; or rather , it began by conjecturing how all things might have been evolved from such a principle . And yet it was not merely ...
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... phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar phenomena . He thus laid the foundation and drew the plan of a sys- tem of atheistical materialism which is sometimes presented to ...
... phenomena of which we are witnesses , and partly to the impressions occasioned by atmospheric and stellar phenomena . He thus laid the foundation and drew the plan of a sys- tem of atheistical materialism which is sometimes presented to ...
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... phenomena presupposed eternal ideas , and that these gradually led up to the Supreme Idea — the highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in his theory of causes he constructed a fortress ...
... phenomena presupposed eternal ideas , and that these gradually led up to the Supreme Idea — the highest good - God . Aris- totle was scarcely less opposed to materialism than Plato , and in his theory of causes he constructed a fortress ...
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... phenomenon must have a suffici- ent ground . Epicurus , Lucretius , and materialists in general , assume it to mean that , since matter is , matter must always have been ; that matter could never have been created ; that the world was ...
... phenomenon must have a suffici- ent ground . Epicurus , Lucretius , and materialists in general , assume it to mean that , since matter is , matter must always have been ; that matter could never have been created ; that the world was ...
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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.