Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... thought or opinion , but a mode of life . It may coexist with a belief in the being of a God . It is the living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted ...
... thought or opinion , but a mode of life . It may coexist with a belief in the being of a God . It is the living as if there were no God , whether we believe that there is a God or not . The existence of atheism has often been doubted ...
Side 12
... thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that ...
... thought , while the most familiar manifesta- tions of life and thought may reasonably convince him that their eternal source cannot be dead and thoughtless matter . If the theist undertook to prove the non - existence of nature , -that ...
Side 19
... thought and research at the very outset of their course ; ought to explain nothing ; ought not to recognise that there is any such thing as law and 1 See Appendix III . order . This kind of atheism is a direct and Atheism not ...
... thought and research at the very outset of their course ; ought to explain nothing ; ought not to recognise that there is any such thing as law and 1 See Appendix III . order . This kind of atheism is a direct and Atheism not ...
Side 25
... thought and affection and will of God , but as expressive of the properties and relations of material things and human beings . Suppose , how- ever , that a man knew not only all that science has at present to tell , but all that it ...
... thought and affection and will of God , but as expressive of the properties and relations of material things and human beings . Suppose , how- ever , that a man knew not only all that science has at present to tell , but all that it ...
Side 31
... thought of God , satisfy and sustain the human heart ? Does atheism meet the claims and supply the wants of conscience ? This is to ask , in other words , if a man will be as strong for duty without as with belief in an almighty and ...
... thought of God , satisfy and sustain the human heart ? Does atheism meet the claims and supply the wants of conscience ? This is to ask , in other words , if a man will be as strong for duty without as with belief in an almighty and ...
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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?