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... seems to me to be a fiction . He may urge , also , that truth must be accepted , whether it appear to us to be all ... seem per- fectly monstrous to any mind which is not griev- ously perverted either intellectually or morally . If it ...
... seems to me to be a fiction . He may urge , also , that truth must be accepted , whether it appear to us to be all ... seem per- fectly monstrous to any mind which is not griev- ously perverted either intellectually or morally . If it ...
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... seem unable to conceive either of mere matter or mere spirit ; they spiritualise mat- ter and materialise spirit ; souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they ...
... seem unable to conceive either of mere matter or mere spirit ; they spiritualise mat- ter and materialise spirit ; souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they ...
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... seem to have been the first nation raised above such materialism , and raised also , in consequence , above pantheism to a true theism . It is the Bible which has impressed on the human mind the great thought of the creation of matter ...
... seem to have been the first nation raised above such materialism , and raised also , in consequence , above pantheism to a true theism . It is the Bible which has impressed on the human mind the great thought of the creation of matter ...
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... seem , since there is no future world , to have done him no good . You may praise him after he is dead , but that is no more to him than to the trunk of a tree or a clod of earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if ...
... seem , since there is no future world , to have done him no good . You may praise him after he is dead , but that is no more to him than to the trunk of a tree or a clod of earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if ...
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... seem a very consistent theory . A few exceptionally consti- tuted natures may combine a materialistic creed with generous and self - denying conduct , but the ordinary man of all lands and ages will find in a materialism which denies ...
... seem a very consistent theory . A few exceptionally consti- tuted natures may combine a materialistic creed with generous and self - denying conduct , but the ordinary man of all lands and ages will find in a materialism which denies ...
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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.