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... nothing testifies to His existence , we must know all things . The territory which has in this case to be surveyed and investigated is the universe in all its length and breadth ; it is The Denial that there is a God . 9.
... nothing testifies to His existence , we must know all things . The territory which has in this case to be surveyed and investigated is the universe in all its length and breadth ; it is The Denial that there is a God . 9.
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... things may have been done by nature . Thus , unless the theist knows all things — that is , pre- cludes all other independent existence by being the infinite existence himself - he does not know that the nature whose supremacy he ...
... things may have been done by nature . Thus , unless the theist knows all things — that is , pre- cludes all other independent existence by being the infinite existence himself - he does not know that the nature whose supremacy he ...
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... things work together . What explanation does atheism give of this world ? There is an atheism which does not pretend ... thing as law and 1 See Appendix III . order . This kind of atheism is a direct and Atheism not satisfactory to the ...
... things work together . What explanation does atheism give of this world ? There is an atheism which does not pretend ... thing as law and 1 See Appendix III . order . This kind of atheism is a direct and Atheism not satisfactory to the ...
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... things and outward advantages— meat and drink and raiment , wealth , honours , influence can satisfy it . The heart of man - the atheist himself , if he be a person of any refinement and elevation of character , will grant at once - can ...
... things and outward advantages— meat and drink and raiment , wealth , honours , influence can satisfy it . The heart of man - the atheist himself , if he be a person of any refinement and elevation of character , will grant at once - can ...
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... things . " The atheist , " as Plu- tarch tells us , " thinks that superstitious man would fain think so , but believes against his will , for he fears to do otherwise . Super- stition generates atheism , and afterwards furnishes it with ...
... things . " The atheist , " as Plu- tarch tells us , " thinks that superstitious man would fain think so , but believes against his will , for he fears to do otherwise . Super- stition generates atheism , and afterwards furnishes it with ...
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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.