Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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Side 10
... notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word knowledge is employed in its ordinary and most general signifi- cation . The ...
... notion . The word denial , and even all the sentences which contain it , might be deleted without the argument losing a particle of its force . The word knowledge is employed in its ordinary and most general signifi- cation . The ...
Side 20
... notion of an eternal series of worlds which depends on no originating principle . It demands a first cause , a true and self - existent first cause . A series may be indefinitely extensible ; it cannot be infinitely extended . Where ...
... notion of an eternal series of worlds which depends on no originating principle . It demands a first cause , a true and self - existent first cause . A series may be indefinitely extensible ; it cannot be infinitely extended . Where ...
Side 24
... notion that the latter is the source or cause of the former can be for a moment entertained . The atheism which makes the finite mind the creator and sustainer of the universe is its own best refutation . Atheism , then , yields no ...
... notion that the latter is the source or cause of the former can be for a moment entertained . The atheism which makes the finite mind the creator and sustainer of the universe is its own best refutation . Atheism , then , yields no ...
Side 41
... notion that materialism is at least a very definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of ...
... notion that materialism is at least a very definite theory which , whether true or false , cannot be mistaken for any other . In reality it is a general term which has many and discordant applications , and which comprehends a crowd of ...
Side 52
... notion of a final cause and supreme ordaining Mind , and to substitute for them a purely mechanical , uncon- scious , aimless necessity . He referred the popular conceptions of Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the ...
... notion of a final cause and supreme ordaining Mind , and to substitute for them a purely mechanical , uncon- scious , aimless necessity . He referred the popular conceptions of Deity partly to an incapacity to understand fully the ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.