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... cause of error never affects a simple intuition , or a step in the process when taken by itself . Here the certainty ... causes of pos- sible error . The objects of physical science must always be imperfectly known ; we never can be sure ...
... cause of error never affects a simple intuition , or a step in the process when taken by itself . Here the certainty ... causes of pos- sible error . The objects of physical science must always be imperfectly known ; we never can be sure ...
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... cause of error may be traced in the works of the French philosophers , so called , of the last century , especially in those of Helvetius , Volney , D'Holbach , and Condillac . Hel- vetius , for instance , refusing to receive any other ...
... cause of error may be traced in the works of the French philosophers , so called , of the last century , especially in those of Helvetius , Volney , D'Holbach , and Condillac . Hel- vetius , for instance , refusing to receive any other ...
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... cause of the abuse of general principles in morals , politics , and jurisprudence , and of the intolerable evils which are occasioned by fanaticism of be- lief and a reckless ultraism . It may be granted that the abstract principle ...
... cause of the abuse of general principles in morals , politics , and jurisprudence , and of the intolerable evils which are occasioned by fanaticism of be- lief and a reckless ultraism . It may be granted that the abstract principle ...
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... cause , or to analyze our idea of infinity . Observation cannot aid us here . In the external world , and in the succession of our thoughts , we witness only events or changes ; we observe only sequences of phenomena ; and to bind ...
... cause , or to analyze our idea of infinity . Observation cannot aid us here . In the external world , and in the succession of our thoughts , we witness only events or changes ; we observe only sequences of phenomena ; and to bind ...
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... cause ; that they give it no information at first respecting outward realities , but are to it merely so many ... cause of these sensations , which cause is foreign to our own minds ; Schiller made the best criticism upon this theory ...
... cause ; that they give it no information at first respecting outward realities , but are to it merely so many ... cause of these sensations , which cause is foreign to our own minds ; Schiller made the best criticism upon this theory ...
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Page 34 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 23 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 262 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 91 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Page 415 - Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Page 419 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 356 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 135 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 143 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 401 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...