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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... reason and intelligence , can it be credited as universally applicable . The present is pre - eminently an age of inves- tigation , and of searching inquiry into funda- mental beliefs ; consequently there prevail much doubt and much ...
... reason and intelligence , can it be credited as universally applicable . The present is pre - eminently an age of inves- tigation , and of searching inquiry into funda- mental beliefs ; consequently there prevail much doubt and much ...
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... reason ; in other words , with a nescience of that which it would contradict the nature of all intelligence to know . Such nescience is no defect or imperfection - it is only on the contrary , the very strength or per- fection of reason ...
... reason ; in other words , with a nescience of that which it would contradict the nature of all intelligence to know . Such nescience is no defect or imperfection - it is only on the contrary , the very strength or per- fection of reason ...
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... on the end and purpose of human life , Pascal reasons that it is assuredly a great evil to be in doubt of this ; but it is nevertheless our indispensable duty to examine things while in this doubt . He who doubts , but does 34 IGNORANCE .
... on the end and purpose of human life , Pascal reasons that it is assuredly a great evil to be in doubt of this ; but it is nevertheless our indispensable duty to examine things while in this doubt . He who doubts , but does 34 IGNORANCE .
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... reasons of convenience than from any really necessary distinction . There is only one God in Nature and in Grace , the same author of Natural and Biblical Revelation . He manifests Himself to us in divers manners , but always in divine ...
... reasons of convenience than from any really necessary distinction . There is only one God in Nature and in Grace , the same author of Natural and Biblical Revelation . He manifests Himself to us in divers manners , but always in divine ...
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... reason why we believe in an Infinite Being , or look on the objects around us as the works of such a Being , is that the recognition of the Infinite One is given in our very nature . This alone explains why it is that the finite ...
... reason why we believe in an Infinite Being , or look on the objects around us as the works of such a Being , is that the recognition of the Infinite One is given in our very nature . This alone explains why it is that the finite ...
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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?