Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh in 1895-96, Second Series |
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... change and philosophises sub specie eternitatis , with the empirical agnosticism attributed to David Hume , which reduces the realities to inexplicable successive changes in mere X PREFACE .
... change and philosophises sub specie eternitatis , with the empirical agnosticism attributed to David Hume , which reduces the realities to inexplicable successive changes in mere X PREFACE .
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... changes in mere appearances , is in this century working in the main current of thought in Europe and America , in sympathy with analogous ideas in India and the East , is a consideration which was present to my mind ; for Spinoza and ...
... changes in mere appearances , is in this century working in the main current of thought in Europe and America , in sympathy with analogous ideas in India and the East , is a consideration which was present to my mind ; for Spinoza and ...
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... change , is what gives uniqueness according at last to our physical experience . Now , this idea of the infinite or mysterious quantity of existence in space , duration , and causation , according to the way in tive issue , to the way ...
... change , is what gives uniqueness according at last to our physical experience . Now , this idea of the infinite or mysterious quantity of existence in space , duration , and causation , according to the way in tive issue , to the way ...
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... changes , because already in its in- exhaustible infinity , the changing universe seems to evade intelligence when one asks for its character and purpose . This final scientific incomprehensibility of that to a dim perception of which ...
... changes , because already in its in- exhaustible infinity , the changing universe seems to evade intelligence when one asks for its character and purpose . This final scientific incomprehensibility of that to a dim perception of which ...
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... changes . Is not this the inter- pretation which developed conscience and developed religious instinct may be said to put upon what would otherwise be physical as well as moral chaos ? This moral personification of the physically ...
... changes . Is not this the inter- pretation which developed conscience and developed religious instinct may be said to put upon what would otherwise be physical as well as moral chaos ? This moral personification of the physically ...
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