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... that among almost all denominations and phases of religious thought there has been more or less suspicion , jealousy , and abuse of physical investigation . It is a fact almost equally patent that , on the part of science likewise - among.
... that among almost all denominations and phases of religious thought there has been more or less suspicion , jealousy , and abuse of physical investigation . It is a fact almost equally patent that , on the part of science likewise - among.
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... less strong , for almost every conceivable notion . Each past generation has found there its favourite theories : in Tertullian's age , the materiality of the soul ; in Augus- tine's , the flatness of the earth ; in the time of the ...
... less strong , for almost every conceivable notion . Each past generation has found there its favourite theories : in Tertullian's age , the materiality of the soul ; in Augus- tine's , the flatness of the earth ; in the time of the ...
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... less coincides with this , and forms a subdivision of science , just in the degree that its doctrines are valid and systematically co - ordinated with each other and the facts which were their data . Normally , then , science is not ...
... less coincides with this , and forms a subdivision of science , just in the degree that its doctrines are valid and systematically co - ordinated with each other and the facts which were their data . Normally , then , science is not ...
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... less representative of religion ; but by no means so exclusively and purely is the Church filled and moved by religion , that the voice of the latter may be taken as the voice of the former . Besides religion , the Church has always con ...
... less representative of religion ; but by no means so exclusively and purely is the Church filled and moved by religion , that the voice of the latter may be taken as the voice of the former . Besides religion , the Church has always con ...
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... less different representation of truth . Science must clear the ground of what it deems erron- eous mental constructions , before it can erect the systems which it believes to be truer . And Theology has become so convinced of the ...
... less different representation of truth . Science must clear the ground of what it deems erron- eous mental constructions , before it can erect the systems which it believes to be truer . And Theology has become so convinced of the ...
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Page 128 - 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 64 - 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.
Page 201 - For by science I understand all knowledge which rests upon evidence and reasoning of a like character to that which claims our assent to ordinary scientific propositions. And if any one is able to make good the assertion that his theology rests upon valid evidence and sound reasoning, then it appears to me that such theology will take its place as a part of science.
Page 158 - science of political economy.' There is no such science. There are no rules on the subject so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science.
Page 198 - ... us with a conviction that the truth of our hypothesis is certain. No accident could give rise to such an extraordinary coincidence. No false supposition could, after being adjusted to one class of phenomena, exactly represent a different class, where the agreement was unforeseen and uncontemplated.
Page 3 - Science was Faith once; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.
Page 110 - ... an infinitude of silence. The phenomena of matter and force lie within our intellectual range, and as far as they reach we will at all hazards push our inquiries. But behind, and above, and around all, the real mystery of this universe lies unsolved, and, as far as we are concerned, is incapable of solution.
Page 56 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Page 173 - Far from these world-wide opinions being arbitrary or conventional products, it is seldom even justifiable to consider their uniformity among distant races as proving communication of any sort. They are doctrines answering in the most forcible way to the plain evidence of men's senses, as interpreted by a fairly consistent and rational primitive philosophy.
Page 153 - Now it is not too much to say that if an optician wanted to sell me an instrument which had all these defects, I should think myself quite justified in blaming his carelessness in the strongest terms, and giving him back his instrument.