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... tion missionaries who , I fear , are better qualified for their work than many of those whom our Churches send forth to advocate to the same classes the cause of Christianity . There is a great deal Prevalence of Atheism . 37.
... tion missionaries who , I fear , are better qualified for their work than many of those whom our Churches send forth to advocate to the same classes the cause of Christianity . There is a great deal Prevalence of Atheism . 37.
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... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . 956 ) LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... tends to produce it , ought to draw together into earnest co - opera- tion all who believe in God and love their country.1 1 See Appendix IV . 956 ) LECTURE II . ANCIENT MATERIALISM . I. IN the present 38 Anti - Theistic Theories .
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... tion or scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively ...
... tion or scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively ...
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... tion , for it to lead to materialism . The tendency of speculation , of refined and disciplined reflection , of thought which seeks really to comprehend what it has before it , is , if history may be credited , to get beyond matter ...
... tion , for it to lead to materialism . The tendency of speculation , of refined and disciplined reflection , of thought which seeks really to comprehend what it has before it , is , if history may be credited , to get beyond matter ...
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... tion of the era of the Sophists . The men who are known in history under this designation are now generally admitted to have been until re- cently represented as even worse than they were . They may certainly be credited with having ren ...
... tion of the era of the Sophists . The men who are known in history under this designation are now generally admitted to have been until re- cently represented as even worse than they were . They may certainly be credited with having ren ...
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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.