Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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Side 10
... argument in celebrated passages of their writings that it is unnecessary to dwell upon it further . It has only been attempted to be refuted by an author who has fallen into singular mistakes as to its nature . Mr Holyoake fancies ...
... argument in celebrated passages of their writings that it is unnecessary to dwell upon it further . It has only been attempted to be refuted by an author who has fallen into singular mistakes as to its nature . Mr Holyoake fancies ...
Side 11
... argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God . What ...
... argument he would never have imagined that it could be thus refuted by inversion . " The wonder , " he says , " turns on the great process by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is a God . What ...
Side 12
... argument is here travestied , but certainly not 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 ...
... argument is here travestied , but certainly not 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 ...
Side 13
... argument of Foster and Chalmers be well founded , atheism ought certainly not to be a self- confident system . It can never be sure that there is no God , and can never have a right to deny that there is a God . It must simply affirm ...
... argument of Foster and Chalmers be well founded , atheism ought certainly not to be a self- confident system . It can never be sure that there is no God , and can never have a right to deny that there is a God . It must simply affirm ...
Side 17
... argument he assures us is a scientific demonstration . Czolbe , Dühring , and some other German atheists , might be referred to as equally audacious in profession and feeble in performance . A zealous English B advocate of atheism , Mr ...
... argument he assures us is a scientific demonstration . Czolbe , Dühring , and some other German atheists , might be referred to as equally audacious in profession and feeble in performance . A zealous English B advocate of atheism , Mr ...
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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?