Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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Side 12
... answered . Where is the wonder that men should know that there is a God ? Such knowledge must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to ...
... answered . Where is the wonder that men should know that there is a God ? Such knowledge must indeed be elevated and glorious , but it may well be within the reach of a feeble and limited intelligence . It implies a certain likeness to ...
Side 29
... answered that the atheist and the theist , so far as they are thoughtful and self- consistent men , cannot but view nature very dif ferently and feel very differently towards it . To the atheist nature may be beautiful and sublime , but ...
... answered that the atheist and the theist , so far as they are thoughtful and self- consistent men , cannot but view nature very dif ferently and feel very differently towards it . To the atheist nature may be beautiful and sublime , but ...
Side 31
... answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the believing man to conquer his ...
... answers itself . The believer in God has every motive to virtue which the unbeliever has , and he has his belief in addition , which is the mightiest motive of all . It is often hard enough even for the believing man to conquer his ...
Side 33
... answers thus cannot have understood the tenor of what we have advanced . If the atheist be right , of course , it is not he who takes from life any hope , or strength , or charm which truly belongs to it . That truth must be accepted ...
... answers thus cannot have understood the tenor of what we have advanced . If the atheist be right , of course , it is not he who takes from life any hope , or strength , or charm which truly belongs to it . That truth must be accepted ...
Side 42
... answer truly to the name of materialism . The name would naturally denote a theory which ex- plains the universe by what is known as matter , or by matter as known through ordinary observa- tion or scientific investigation . There ...
... answer truly to the name of materialism . The name would naturally denote a theory which ex- plains the universe by what is known as matter , or by matter as known through ordinary observa- tion or scientific investigation . There ...
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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 454 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?