The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1880 - 509 pages |
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... kind of steeplechase philosophy is in vogue . Specialism assumes the functions and honours of universalism . Materialists , by strangest solecism , use mind to subject Nature ; and then , mental control being established , destroy mind ...
... kind of steeplechase philosophy is in vogue . Specialism assumes the functions and honours of universalism . Materialists , by strangest solecism , use mind to subject Nature ; and then , mental control being established , destroy mind ...
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... kind of one- sidedness . Knowing but little of physics , they use exploded arguments , and seek to maintain untenable positions . No wonder that the Sacred Cause , which they endeavour to champion , is imperilled rather than vindicated ...
... kind of one- sidedness . Knowing but little of physics , they use exploded arguments , and seek to maintain untenable positions . No wonder that the Sacred Cause , which they endeavour to champion , is imperilled rather than vindicated ...
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... kind is seized and held . " 1 Is Even in natural knowledge the researches and discoveries of the most self - reliant investigators are worked out upon the foundation laid by previous authority , whether that authority be censured , or ...
... kind is seized and held . " 1 Is Even in natural knowledge the researches and discoveries of the most self - reliant investigators are worked out upon the foundation laid by previous authority , whether that authority be censured , or ...
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... kind is seen , for the energy that works cannot be identified with the phenomena . They pretend to find in the chance clash of atoms the secret of the world's plan from origination to com- pletion ; or , with greater absurdity , own God ...
... kind is seen , for the energy that works cannot be identified with the phenomena . They pretend to find in the chance clash of atoms the secret of the world's plan from origination to com- pletion ; or , with greater absurdity , own God ...
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... kind of being , adapting its internal processes to other processes which are external . " Really , to talk in this way is to play fast and loose with things , for we can just as well think of Infinite Intelli- gence as we can of ...
... kind of being , adapting its internal processes to other processes which are external . " Really , to talk in this way is to play fast and loose with things , for we can just as well think of Infinite Intelli- gence as we can of ...
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Page 487 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 249 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Page 149 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 12 - Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in. the prophets : Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 255 - Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.
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Page 284 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 118 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 182 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant...