Modern Materialism: Its Attitude Towards TheologyWilliams and Norgate, 1876 - 80 pages |
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... discovery of Law as the negation of God ; and the separating line is drawn , that in their intellectual dealings with phenomena , science inves- 4 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT . tigates the " how " A 2 MODERN MATERIALISM: ITS ATTITUDE ...
... discovery of Law as the negation of God ; and the separating line is drawn , that in their intellectual dealings with phenomena , science inves- 4 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT . tigates the " how " A 2 MODERN MATERIALISM: ITS ATTITUDE ...
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... discovery , far from saying there is no sacred literature , because none oracular , assures us there are several ; and , notwithstanding a deepened because purified attachment to our own " Origines " in the Jewish and Christian ...
... discovery , far from saying there is no sacred literature , because none oracular , assures us there are several ; and , notwithstanding a deepened because purified attachment to our own " Origines " in the Jewish and Christian ...
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... discovery , should lose count of his direction as he sweeps along , and , mounted upon these hobbies , should fancy that he can ride off into the region of ontology , and finding nothing , because never really there , should mistake his ...
... discovery , should lose count of his direction as he sweeps along , and , mounted upon these hobbies , should fancy that he can ride off into the region of ontology , and finding nothing , because never really there , should mistake his ...
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... discovery that a definition of a class is not a full description of its individuals . When , however , I look about for my critic's correcter version of " matter ” or its atoms , it is long before I learn more than that " . radically ...
... discovery that a definition of a class is not a full description of its individuals . When , however , I look about for my critic's correcter version of " matter ” or its atoms , it is long before I learn more than that " . radically ...
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... discovery from a similar love of relational unity . To simplify is the essence of all scientific explanation . If it does not gain this end , it fails to explain . Its speculative ideal is still , as of old , to reach some monistic ...
... discovery from a similar love of relational unity . To simplify is the essence of all scientific explanation . If it does not gain this end , it fails to explain . Its speculative ideal is still , as of old , to reach some monistic ...
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alighted answer ANTHROPOMORPHISM assumption ATOMIC WEIGHTS atoms attributed Balfour Stewart body Bois-Reymond brain carbon carry causality chemical chemical affinity chemical elements chemistry Clerk Maxwell cognition conception consciousness Conservation of Energy COVENT GARDEN datum deduction definite Democritus Descartes discovery dispense Divine doctrine dynamic elements Empedocles essence expression fact Fechner force forces disappears formula Fortnightly Review Geschichte des Materialismus heat Herbert Spencer higher homogeneous human hydrogen hypothesis idea ideal identical illusion immanent inner inorganic intellectual interpretation JAMES MARTINEAU kosmos logical matter meaning mechanical ment metaphysical mind MODERN MATERIALISM molecular molecules monistic motion movements natural science necessity never object observe organic phenomena philosophical physical position possible predicate present principle problem Professor Tyndall properties quæsita relation religion says Lange SCIENTIFIC WITNESSES CALLED simply suppose term THEOLOGY theory thesis things thought tion traced transmutations truth undulations universe whence whole words