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... SECULARISM , . • VII . ARE THERE TRIBES OF ATHEISTS ? VIII . PESSIMISM , • • IX . HISTORY OF PANTHEISM , X. PANTHEISM , • APPENDIX . PAGE I 39 74 • ні . 176 211 250 290 334 • 380 NOTE I. THE TERMS THEISM , DEISM , ATHEISM , AND ANTI ...
... SECULARISM , . • VII . ARE THERE TRIBES OF ATHEISTS ? VIII . PESSIMISM , • • IX . HISTORY OF PANTHEISM , X. PANTHEISM , • APPENDIX . PAGE I 39 74 • ні . 176 211 250 290 334 • 380 NOTE I. THE TERMS THEISM , DEISM , ATHEISM , AND ANTI ...
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... SECULARISM , XXIV . THE ATHEISM OF SECULARISM , 508 . 509 • 514 520 XXV . DARWINISM AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF RELIGION , XXVI . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 522 XXVII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 524 XXVIII ...
... SECULARISM , XXIV . THE ATHEISM OF SECULARISM , 508 . 509 • 514 520 XXV . DARWINISM AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF RELIGION , XXVI . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 522 XXVII . ALLEGED ATHEISM OF NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES , 524 XXVIII ...
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... secularists have fancied that they could not be properly called atheists because they did not undertake to prove that there is no God , but only to show that there is no reason for supposing that there is one ; but , of course , belief ...
... secularists have fancied that they could not be properly called atheists because they did not undertake to prove that there is no God , but only to show that there is no reason for supposing that there is one ; but , of course , belief ...
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... secularism , materialism , & c .; and it does so directly and seriously . The most influential authorities in science and philo- sophy , and a host of the most popular representa- tives of literature , are strenuously propagating it ...
... secularism , materialism , & c .; and it does so directly and seriously . The most influential authorities in science and philo- sophy , and a host of the most popular representa- tives of literature , are strenuously propagating it ...
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... secularism made its appearance . Secular- ism involves materialism . In 1851 Mr Henry G. Atkinson and Miss Harriet Martineau published their ' Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development , ' advocating without reservation or ...
... secularism made its appearance . Secular- ism involves materialism . In 1851 Mr Henry G. Atkinson and Miss Harriet Martineau published their ' Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development , ' advocating without reservation or ...
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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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?