Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM , V. POSITIVISM , · VI . SECULARISM , . • VII . ARE THERE TRIBES OF ATHEISTS ? VIII . PESSIMISM , • • IX . HISTORY OF PANTHEISM , X. PANTHEISM , • APPENDIX . PAGE I 39 74 • ні . 176 211 250 290 334 • 380 NOTE I ...
... SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM , V. POSITIVISM , · VI . SECULARISM , . • VII . ARE THERE TRIBES OF ATHEISTS ? VIII . PESSIMISM , • • IX . HISTORY OF PANTHEISM , X. PANTHEISM , • APPENDIX . PAGE I 39 74 • ні . 176 211 250 290 334 • 380 NOTE I ...
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... scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are not . There are very few ...
... scientific proof of it need be looked for ; and that facts sufficient to overthrow it may be brought to light any instant . Atheists are , however , seldom thus diffident , and we cannot wonder that they are not . There are very few ...
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... scientific basis . But to accomplish his task he finds it necessary to represent Chris- tianity as , like Budhism , a system of atheism . Maintaining the atheism of these two religions , he infers that atheism is the natural goal of ...
... scientific basis . But to accomplish his task he finds it necessary to represent Chris- tianity as , like Budhism , a system of atheism . Maintaining the atheism of these two religions , he infers that atheism is the natural goal of ...
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... scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively exalts and ...
... scientific investigation . There neither is , however , nor ever has been , any such theory . It is a universal characteristic of materialism that it supposes matter to be more than it is known to be ; that it imaginatively exalts and ...
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... writers , favourable to materialism , have extolled Democritus as a spec- ulative and scientific genius of the very highest 1 See Appendix VII . D order , equal or superior to Plato and Aristotle . Greek Materialism . 49.
... writers , favourable to materialism , have extolled Democritus as a spec- ulative and scientific genius of the very highest 1 See Appendix VII . D order , equal or superior to Plato and Aristotle . Greek Materialism . 49.
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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?