The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of Modern Science, and as an Aid to Advanced Christian PhilosophyG.P. Putnam, 1872 - Всего страниц: 543 |
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... object is that of the Positive Philosophy , namely , the organization into a harmonious doctrine of all the highest generalizations of Science by the ap- plication of the Positive method , and the com- plete displacement of Theology and ...
... object is that of the Positive Philosophy , namely , the organization into a harmonious doctrine of all the highest generalizations of Science by the ap- plication of the Positive method , and the com- plete displacement of Theology and ...
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... object of our earthly ex- istence . The purpose of our present life is not to live in mental blindness , but to learn as we live , and to become full of knowledge and wis- dom in proportion to our years . He who has passed through our ...
... object of our earthly ex- istence . The purpose of our present life is not to live in mental blindness , but to learn as we live , and to become full of knowledge and wis- dom in proportion to our years . He who has passed through our ...
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... object of the present work to accom- plish somewhat , however limited , in this direc- tion , and it may suggest much more than it ac- complishes . Thoughts of this kind , regulated by adequate knowledge , and chastened by due re ...
... object of the present work to accom- plish somewhat , however limited , in this direc- tion , and it may suggest much more than it ac- complishes . Thoughts of this kind , regulated by adequate knowledge , and chastened by due re ...
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... object of know- ledge . There are many things of which we may continue ignorant , which it would be of some ... objects . Now , in this light , ignorance of what may be learned of the Divine Being , and His designs in the world around us ...
... object of know- ledge . There are many things of which we may continue ignorant , which it would be of some ... objects . Now , in this light , ignorance of what may be learned of the Divine Being , and His designs in the world around us ...
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... object or end which we cannot pass beyond . The phenomena then which we behold are by no means the manifestation of ... objects of knowledge only by relation or by contrast . Thus the idea of empty space would not present itself without ...
... object or end which we cannot pass beyond . The phenomena then which we behold are by no means the manifestation of ... objects of knowledge only by relation or by contrast . Thus the idea of empty space would not present itself without ...
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Стр. 49 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness ; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it unto them.
Стр. 264 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 510 - True love in this differs from gold and • clay, That to divide is not to take away.
Стр. 264 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 113 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Стр. 313 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Стр. 32 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Стр. 33 - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner ho can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Стр. 227 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 99 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?