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... CHAPTER I. PAGE 7 What is Science ? -What is Religion ? -No Necessary and Right- ful Antagonism between them , when fully understood CHAPTER II . • 16 Causes of the Actual Antagonism of the Scientific and the Re- ligious Worlds ...
... CHAPTER I. PAGE 7 What is Science ? -What is Religion ? -No Necessary and Right- ful Antagonism between them , when fully understood CHAPTER II . • 16 Causes of the Actual Antagonism of the Scientific and the Re- ligious Worlds ...
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... CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite . PAGE 66 116 CHAPTER VI . Supposed ...
... CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite . PAGE 66 116 CHAPTER VI . Supposed ...
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... 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 therein recorded . Read verses 20 and 24 : ' And God said , Let the waters bring ...
... 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 therein recorded . Read verses 20 and 24 : ' And God said , Let the waters bring ...
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... between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . INTRODUCTION . 15.
... between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . INTRODUCTION . 15.
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Or, Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge James Thompson Bixby. CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . Is there any necessary antagonism between Sci- ence and Religion ? This is the first and main ...
Or, Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge James Thompson Bixby. CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . Is there any necessary antagonism between Sci- ence and Religion ? This is the first and main ...
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Page 138 - 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.
Page 199 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 196 - 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 so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 171 - There is no such science. There are no rules on these subjects so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science. I believe I have recently ran over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Noah.