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... doctrine from aberrations or perversions . In the present controversy , the debate concerns the fundamental ideas of religion . Twenty - five years ago Dr. Newman said to a sectarian contro- versialist , " Let us discuss the prospects ...
... doctrine from aberrations or perversions . In the present controversy , the debate concerns the fundamental ideas of religion . Twenty - five years ago Dr. Newman said to a sectarian contro- versialist , " Let us discuss the prospects ...
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... doctrine of evolution - Darwinism , if you please - is as nearly taught in the first chapter of Genesis as in the revelations of modern science ; and spontaneous generation seems to appear on the very face of the statements of Moses as ...
... doctrine of evolution - Darwinism , if you please - is as nearly taught in the first chapter of Genesis as in the revelations of modern science ; and spontaneous generation seems to appear on the very face of the statements of Moses as ...
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... doctrines are valid and systematically coördinated with each other and the facts which were their data . Normally , then , science is not complete till religion , in its general signification , be- comes one of its objects of ...
... doctrines are valid and systematically coördinated with each other and the facts which were their data . Normally , then , science is not complete till religion , in its general signification , be- comes one of its objects of ...
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... doctrines of predestination and fatalism . In Abélard's time it was bound up with the meta- physics of realism ; in Roger Bacon's , with the philosophy of Aristotle ; in the days of Vesalius , with the medical treatises of Galen ; in ...
... doctrines of predestination and fatalism . In Abélard's time it was bound up with the meta- physics of realism ; in Roger Bacon's , with the philosophy of Aristotle ; in the days of Vesalius , with the medical treatises of Galen ; in ...
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... doctrines , for example , that are inimical to the very existence of religion ; and these metaphysical doctrines may happen to be adopted by certain scientific authorities , become cur- rent in scientific circles , and be expounded as ...
... doctrines , for example , that are inimical to the very existence of religion ; and these metaphysical doctrines may happen to be adopted by certain scientific authorities , become cur- rent in scientific circles , and be expounded as ...
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Page 130 - 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...
Page 69 - 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.
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Page 220 - REES (University of Erlangen). On Parasitic Plants. Prof. STEINTHAL (University of Berlin). Outlines of the Science of Language. P. BERT (Professor of Physiology, Paris).
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Page 188 - The scientific imagination, which is here authoritative, demands, as the origin and cause of a series of ether-waves, a particle of vibrating matter . quite as definite, though it may be excessively minute, as that which gives origin to a musical sound.
Page 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled by force to change that state.
Page 222 - Foods that has appeared in our language. " The book contains a series of diagrams, displaying the effects of sleep and meals on pulsation and respiration, and of various kinds of food on respiration, which, as the results of Dr. Smith's own experiments, possess a very high value. We have not far to go in this work for occasions of favorable criticism ; they occur throughout, but are perhaps most apparent in those parts of the subject with which Dr. Smith's name is especially linked.
Page 221 - Prof. JOHN FISKE, in the Atlantic Monthly. " Mr. Bagehot's style is clear and vigorous. We refrain from giving a fuller account of these suggestive essays, only because we are sure that our readers will find it worth their while to peruse the book for themselves ; and we sincerely hope that the forthcoming parts of the 'International Scientific Series