Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877W. Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 555 sider |
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... objects scarcely as big as a large fruit , sprout up incessantly , like mushrooms , the world . would sink into nothingness . " This strange hypo- thesis finds a strange counterpart in the specula- tions of two of the latest of German ...
... objects scarcely as big as a large fruit , sprout up incessantly , like mushrooms , the world . would sink into nothingness . " This strange hypo- thesis finds a strange counterpart in the specula- tions of two of the latest of German ...
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... object of trust , of adoration , of affection . How , then , can they satisfy hearts , the true life of which consists in the exercise of faith and hope , reverence and love ? Severed from what will worthily develop the higher emotional ...
... object of trust , of adoration , of affection . How , then , can they satisfy hearts , the true life of which consists in the exercise of faith and hope , reverence and love ? Severed from what will worthily develop the higher emotional ...
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... objects are due simply to the quantitative differences of the atoms which compose them . Water differs from iron merely because the atoms of the former are smooth and round , and do not fit into but roll over each other ; while those of ...
... objects are due simply to the quantitative differences of the atoms which compose them . Water differs from iron merely because the atoms of the former are smooth and round , and do not fit into but roll over each other ; while those of ...
Side 52
... objects . He could not , of course , overlook the obvious question , Why do the atoms move , and how do they so combine as to give rise to a world at once so orderly and varied ? He answered that nothing happened at random , but ...
... objects . He could not , of course , overlook the obvious question , Why do the atoms move , and how do they so combine as to give rise to a world at once so orderly and varied ? He answered that nothing happened at random , but ...
Side 53
... objects acting on a material subject . Democritus saw this , —that there was no heat or cold out of relation to feeling , no bitter or sweet out of relation to the sense of taste , no colour independent of the sense of sight , or sound ...
... objects acting on a material subject . Democritus saw this , —that there was no heat or cold out of relation to feeling , no bitter or sweet out of relation to the sense of taste , no colour independent of the sense of sight , or sound ...
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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 131 - ... the extension of the province of what we call matter and causation, and the concomitant gradual banishment from all regions of human thought of what we call spirit and spontaneity.
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.