Faith and Modern ThoughtG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876 - 272 pages |
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... space to which it is ne- cessarily confined . We can only refer , therefore , to the manner in which the author meets the declara- tions of Spencer respecting " force as the ground of all phenomena , " and his dictum that force itself ...
... space to which it is ne- cessarily confined . We can only refer , therefore , to the manner in which the author meets the declara- tions of Spencer respecting " force as the ground of all phenomena , " and his dictum that force itself ...
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... space and time , subtler than the fiery mist or the star - dust , subtler than the attenuated nebula of the modern evolutionist , yet no less real , and more ancient , with causal energy unsurpassed by that assumed in the modern theory ...
... space and time , subtler than the fiery mist or the star - dust , subtler than the attenuated nebula of the modern evolutionist , yet no less real , and more ancient , with causal energy unsurpassed by that assumed in the modern theory ...
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... space ; seeking in every nook and corner of the material universe for the great First Cause , if haply it may feel after him and find him , but with the eye of intuitive reason closed , failing to see him , though he be not far from ...
... space ; seeking in every nook and corner of the material universe for the great First Cause , if haply it may feel after him and find him , but with the eye of intuitive reason closed , failing to see him , though he be not far from ...
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... space . May we not , in such processes of the sense , at length completely fill all space and exhaust all duration , till there be no more time for conjoining or space for constructing ? Evidently neither the brute FAITH AND POSITIVISM .
... space . May we not , in such processes of the sense , at length completely fill all space and exhaust all duration , till there be no more time for conjoining or space for constructing ? Evidently neither the brute FAITH AND POSITIVISM .
Page 76
... space and time are infinite . This has never appeared to finite sense - never can appear to it . Indeed , sense can not say that there is any space beyond what appears to it already occupied by space - constructions . Now the brute ...
... space and time are infinite . This has never appeared to finite sense - never can appear to it . Indeed , sense can not say that there is any space beyond what appears to it already occupied by space - constructions . Now the brute ...
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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.