Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may be very easy , but to prove that there is certainly none must be extremely difficult , if not impossible . There may be as many ...
... necessarily be to show that it had not a single animal inhabitant . So to show that there is a God may be very easy , but to prove that there is certainly none must be extremely difficult , if not impossible . There may be as many ...
Side 11
... necessarily that the inference that there is a God may be warranted by a very limited know- ledge of nature , but that the inference that there is no God can only be warranted by a complete knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned ...
... necessarily that the inference that there is a God may be warranted by a very limited know- ledge of nature , but that the inference that there is no God can only be warranted by a complete knowledge of nature . If the author mentioned ...
Side 18
... necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was directly to repel the objections which atheism has brought against the validity and sufficiency of the fundamental theistic proofs ; to ...
... necessarily the refutation of atheism . Further , a secondary aim , kept in view throughout , was directly to repel the objections which atheism has brought against the validity and sufficiency of the fundamental theistic proofs ; to ...
Side 52
... . A system like this manifestly contains in itself the germs of its own contradiction and destruction . It tends necessarily to sensationalism and scepti- cism , and both of these devour , as it 52 Anti - Theistic Theories .
... . A system like this manifestly contains in itself the germs of its own contradiction and destruction . It tends necessarily to sensationalism and scepti- cism , and both of these devour , as it 52 Anti - Theistic Theories .
Side 93
... necessarily in order , we are told , since everything acts and moves according to constant and invariable laws ; confusion is consequently impossible . But as it is at the same time admitted that a series of motions or actions ...
... necessarily in order , we are told , since everything acts and moves according to constant and invariable laws ; confusion is consequently impossible . But as it is at the same time admitted that a series of motions or actions ...
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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.