Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... spirit which thinks there would simply be a correct picture of that which does not think . But the soul which would not be satisfied with the very world itself , could it have it , will surely not be satisfied with that pale reflection ...
... spirit which thinks there would simply be a correct picture of that which does not think . But the soul which would not be satisfied with the very world itself , could it have it , will surely not be satisfied with that pale reflection ...
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... spirit will lack many a charm , but without aid from religion it will lack life itself . Is it said that nature lies open to the inspection and contemplation of all , and presents the same beauties and sublimities to the atheist as to ...
... spirit will lack many a charm , but without aid from religion it will lack life itself . Is it said that nature lies open to the inspection and contemplation of all , and presents the same beauties and sublimities to the atheist as to ...
Side 32
... Spirit , but sits , in a darkness which is unrelieved by a single ray of light , mourning over the work of the senseless . energies of nature . When death lays hold of him- self , and he knows that there is no escape , he can only yield ...
... Spirit , but sits , in a darkness which is unrelieved by a single ray of light , mourning over the work of the senseless . energies of nature . When death lays hold of him- self , and he knows that there is no escape , he can only yield ...
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... spirit ; they spiritualise mat- ter and materialise spirit ; souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they can- not think of matter and spirit as separate exist ...
... spirit ; they spiritualise mat- ter and materialise spirit ; souls and gods are sup- posed by them to be material beings , and material things to have souls and divine powers ; they can- not think of matter and spirit as separate exist ...
Side 54
... spirit and with having contributed very consid- erably to the increase of ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than ...
... spirit and with having contributed very consid- erably to the increase of ideas and the spread of intellectual culture . Whatever merits , however , we may thus assign to them , will not warrant us to reverse or do more than ...
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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.