Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... future time , to publish a historical account and critical examination of the various phases of Modern Agnosticism . He has again to thank Mr James A. Campbell of Stracathro for kindly assisting him in the work of revision . JOHNSTONE ...
... future time , to publish a historical account and critical examination of the various phases of Modern Agnosticism . He has again to thank Mr James A. Campbell of Stracathro for kindly assisting him in the work of revision . JOHNSTONE ...
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... future world , to have done him no good . You may praise him after he is dead , but that is no more to him than to the trunk of a tree or a clod of earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if he have thereby the joy of ...
... future world , to have done him no good . You may praise him after he is dead , but that is no more to him than to the trunk of a tree or a clod of earth . Or he may live what is called a vicious life , but if he have thereby the joy of ...
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... future life the justification of sensuality and selfishness.1 None of the greater systems of Hindu phil- osophy can be properly classed as materialistic ; but among the minor systems there is one - the Charvāka philosophy - closely akin ...
... future life the justification of sensuality and selfishness.1 None of the greater systems of Hindu phil- osophy can be properly classed as materialistic ; but among the minor systems there is one - the Charvāka philosophy - closely akin ...
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... future world . Now , it may fairly be doubted , I think , if a system which springs from such a motive can be other than very defective . I grant that there was considerable excuse for the motive in the evils which superstition had ...
... future world . Now , it may fairly be doubted , I think , if a system which springs from such a motive can be other than very defective . I grant that there was considerable excuse for the motive in the evils which superstition had ...
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... future retribution otherwise than by persuading them that there was no future to fear - that death was an eternal sleep . Therefore they taught that " the nature of the mind cannot come into being alone without the body , nor exist far ...
... future retribution otherwise than by persuading them that there was no future to fear - that death was an eternal sleep . Therefore they taught that " the nature of the mind cannot come into being alone without the body , nor exist far ...
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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?