Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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Side 4
... human mind is capable of discovering whether or not there is a Divine Being , or it simply maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God ...
... human mind is capable of discovering whether or not there is a Divine Being , or it simply maintains that no valid proof of the ex- istence of a Divine Being has been produced . Atheism in the form of a denial of the existence of a God ...
Side 13
... not , " " there is no saying , " - " it doth not yet appear . " Is this not a very strange and dreary condition for the human mind to be condemned to abide in ? If such be the natural condition The Denial that there is a God . 13.
... not , " " there is no saying , " - " it doth not yet appear . " Is this not a very strange and dreary condition for the human mind to be condemned to abide in ? If such be the natural condition The Denial that there is a God . 13.
Side 14
... human mind has been made not for truth , but for doubt ? To deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . For , it will be observed , it assumes that we are capable of describing the limits both of ...
... human mind has been made not for truth , but for doubt ? To deny that God can be known is scarcely less presumptuous than to deny that God is . For , it will be observed , it assumes that we are capable of describing the limits both of ...
Side 15
... human power ; he arrogates to him- self a superhuman knowledge of the possible at- tainments of the human mind . But worse than this , while denying that an infinite mind can ever be known , he assumes that he himself knows what an ...
... human power ; he arrogates to him- self a superhuman knowledge of the possible at- tainments of the human mind . But worse than this , while denying that an infinite mind can ever be known , he assumes that he himself knows what an ...
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... human race laboured for thousands of years , until the one wise man appeared who discovered that his fellow - men had been idiotically bowing and cringing before their own shadow . It is this discovery which makes it " clear as the sun ...
... human race laboured for thousands of years , until the one wise man appeared who discovered that his fellow - men had been idiotically bowing and cringing before their own shadow . It is this discovery which makes it " clear as the sun ...
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Side 158 - 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 382 - 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 170 - ... 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 170 - ... and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually...
Side 452 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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Side 76 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.