Faith and Modern ThoughtG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876 - 272 pages |
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Page ix
... FORCES . THE TRUE EVOLUTION ? CHAPTER II . FAITH AND POSITIVISM . THE FIELD OF THE PHILOSOPHIC AND FINITE .. CHAPTER III . PAGE xi 3 57 FAITH AND POSITIVISM . THE FIELD of the RELIGIOUS AND INFINITE ..... IIO CHAPTER IV . FAITH AND ...
... FORCES . THE TRUE EVOLUTION ? CHAPTER II . FAITH AND POSITIVISM . THE FIELD OF THE PHILOSOPHIC AND FINITE .. CHAPTER III . PAGE xi 3 57 FAITH AND POSITIVISM . THE FIELD of the RELIGIOUS AND INFINITE ..... IIO CHAPTER IV . FAITH AND ...
Page xix
... force , and matter , as its only realities . As suggestive of the train of thought on which we have been dwelling , and of similar related ideas , reference might be made to other portions of this book , and especially to chapter VI ...
... force , and matter , as its only realities . As suggestive of the train of thought on which we have been dwelling , and of similar related ideas , reference might be made to other portions of this book , and especially to chapter VI ...
Page xx
... force as the ground of all phenomena , " and his dictum that force itself is unknowable . According to Spencer , thought can go no farther . No other cause can be known ; no other cause , therefore , can be assigned . This he would ...
... force as the ground of all phenomena , " and his dictum that force itself is unknowable . According to Spencer , thought can go no farther . No other cause can be known ; no other cause , therefore , can be assigned . This he would ...
Page xxi
... force , " or " first ground of all phenomena , " is to him unknow- able . It is simply because he will not acknowledge the decision of consciousness that force is knowable only through spirit as an idea , that , in the order of our ...
... force , " or " first ground of all phenomena , " is to him unknow- able . It is simply because he will not acknowledge the decision of consciousness that force is knowable only through spirit as an idea , that , in the order of our ...
Page xxii
... force , to it , would disappear , and a phenomenon of change alone remain . The explosion of a dynamite maga- zine would give only the thought of scattered motions . Nay more , solidity or hardness would be inconceivable , unthinkable ...
... force , to it , would disappear , and a phenomenon of change alone remain . The explosion of a dynamite maga- zine would give only the thought of scattered motions . Nay more , solidity or hardness would be inconceivable , unthinkable ...
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Page 39 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 154 - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Page 164 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 176 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 190 - 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 farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 177 - And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 248 - The problem of the connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages.
Page 17 - Those modes of the Unknowable which we call motion, heat, light, chemical affinity, &c., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the Unknowable which we distinguish as sensation, emotion, thought : these, in their turns, being directly or indirectly re-transformable into the original shapes.
Page 176 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 67 - If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.