Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit: To which is Added the History of the Philosophical Doctrine Concerning the Origin of the Soul, and the Nature of Matter; with Its Influence on Christianity, Especially with Respect to the Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Christ, 1. köidePearson and Rollason, 1782 - 400 pages |
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... feems willing to allow that I might be juftified in publishing my opi- nions , provided I were perfecuted for them , which he fays I am not , except fo far as I am excluded by them from all preferment in the church . And he takes this ...
... feems willing to allow that I might be juftified in publishing my opi- nions , provided I were perfecuted for them , which he fays I am not , except fo far as I am excluded by them from all preferment in the church . And he takes this ...
Page xxxiii
... feems to have mif- taken my argument , and by that means to have made his reply very eafy . I do not produce a world at fo fmall an expence as he fays * , and motion is not my fole material . I acknowledge with him , that power cannot ...
... feems to have mif- taken my argument , and by that means to have made his reply very eafy . I do not produce a world at fo fmall an expence as he fays * , and motion is not my fole material . I acknowledge with him , that power cannot ...
Page 49
... feems to be the moft unphilofophical and abfurd of all conclu- fions . If death be an advantage with refpect to thinking , difeafe ought to be a propor- tional advantage likewife ; and univerfally , the nearer the body approaches to a ...
... feems to be the moft unphilofophical and abfurd of all conclu- fions . If death be an advantage with refpect to thinking , difeafe ought to be a propor- tional advantage likewife ; and univerfally , the nearer the body approaches to a ...
Page 50
... turally the power of thinking feems as " much to belong to the body as any power cf man whatfoever . Naturally there ap- pears no more reafon to fuppofe that a 66 66 " man can think out of the body , than 66 man 50 DISQUISITIONS ON.
... turally the power of thinking feems as " much to belong to the body as any power cf man whatfoever . Naturally there ap- pears no more reafon to fuppofe that a 66 66 " man can think out of the body , than 66 man 50 DISQUISITIONS ON.
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... feems to have imagined , that he had fully anfwered the argument for the ma- teriality of the human foul , from its having received all its ideas from the bodily fenfes , by asking whether there might not poffibly have been other inlets ...
... feems to have imagined , that he had fully anfwered the argument for the ma- teriality of the human foul , from its having received all its ideas from the bodily fenfes , by asking whether there might not poffibly have been other inlets ...
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