Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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Side 33
... unity or harmony . For who could decide be- tween the competing and conflicting claims of truth and virtue , of reason and morality ? Neither C the truth unfavourable to morality nor the morality capable of Atheism and Morality . 33.
... unity or harmony . For who could decide be- tween the competing and conflicting claims of truth and virtue , of reason and morality ? Neither C the truth unfavourable to morality nor the morality capable of Atheism and Morality . 33.
Side 113
... unity . There cannot be more than one ultimate explanation of things . If the variety of existences in the universe are traced back to two or more causes , the intellect must sooner or later perceive that it has stopped abruptly and ...
... unity . There cannot be more than one ultimate explanation of things . If the variety of existences in the universe are traced back to two or more causes , the intellect must sooner or later perceive that it has stopped abruptly and ...
Side 114
... unity that we can get above the limits and conditions which are conclusive evidences of dependence . Hence every form of dualism must be rejected as a theory of existence . Only a monistic philosophy can be a true philosophy . But ...
... unity that we can get above the limits and conditions which are conclusive evidences of dependence . Hence every form of dualism must be rejected as a theory of existence . Only a monistic philosophy can be a true philosophy . But ...
Side 115
... unity . Idealism , it is true , sets up rival pretensions . It professes to start with the self- identity or absolute unity of thought , and to ex- plain matter as a stage in the development or as a phase of the manifestation of thought ...
... unity . Idealism , it is true , sets up rival pretensions . It professes to start with the self- identity or absolute unity of thought , and to ex- plain matter as a stage in the development or as a phase of the manifestation of thought ...
Side 116
... unity which accounts for the universe , than the characteristic features of the leaves of a particular kind of tree can be the sole and adequate explanation of the entire vegetable kingdom . Further , materialism claims to be the only ...
... unity which accounts for the universe , than the characteristic features of the leaves of a particular kind of tree can be the sole and adequate explanation of the entire vegetable kingdom . Further , materialism claims to be the only ...
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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.