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... thought or opinion , but a mode of life . It may coexist with a belief in the being of a God . It is the living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted ...
... thought or opinion , but a mode of life . It may coexist with a belief in the being of a God . It is the living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted ...
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... thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that ...
... thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that ...
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... thought it no bigger than it seemed to be , and yet sup- posed that it contained the universe . Czolbe and Ueberweg fancy that its apparent size is but an extremely diminished picture of its real size ; that , in fact , it is colossal ...
... thought it no bigger than it seemed to be , and yet sup- posed that it contained the universe . Czolbe and Ueberweg fancy that its apparent size is but an extremely diminished picture of its real size ; that , in fact , it is colossal ...
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... thought and affection and will of God , but as expressive of the properties and relations of material things and human beings . Suppose , how- ever , that a man knew not only all that science has at present to tell , but all that it ...
... thought and affection and will of God , but as expressive of the properties and relations of material things and human beings . Suppose , how- ever , that a man knew not only all that science has at present to tell , but all that it ...
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... thought of God , satisfy and sustain the human heart ? Does atheism meet the claims and supply the wants of conscience ? This is to ask , in other words , if a man will be as strong for duty without as with belief in an almighty and ...
... thought of God , satisfy and sustain the human heart ? Does atheism meet the claims and supply the wants of conscience ? This is to ask , in other words , if a man will be as strong for duty without as with belief in an almighty and ...
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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.