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... pass for science have no real claim to the title . They are but metaphysical falla- cies , probable hypotheses , or conjectures spawned in the fertile fancy of scientific dabblers , embraced by anti - religious prejudice , and wind ...
... pass for science have no real claim to the title . They are but metaphysical falla- cies , probable hypotheses , or conjectures spawned in the fertile fancy of scientific dabblers , embraced by anti - religious prejudice , and wind ...
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... passing beyond its own lim- its , assumes to take the place of Theology , and sets up its own conception of the order of ... pass to the things that , in the name of re- ligion , have opposed science : ecclesiastical hierar- chies have ...
... passing beyond its own lim- its , assumes to take the place of Theology , and sets up its own conception of the order of ... pass to the things that , in the name of re- ligion , have opposed science : ecclesiastical hierar- chies have ...
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... pass in the progress of science that the doctrines set forth by the Church must be set forth in another sense than that in which the Church has ever re- ceived and yet receives them . " Language such as this makes it plain that , what ...
... pass in the progress of science that the doctrines set forth by the Church must be set forth in another sense than that in which the Church has ever re- ceived and yet receives them . " Language such as this makes it plain that , what ...
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... passes through them . These mental windows will tint with the color of their own glass whatever light streams through them . The pint pot cannot hold a quart . The earthy soul cannot take in the spiritual conception . Love , aspiration ...
... passes through them . These mental windows will tint with the color of their own glass whatever light streams through them . The pint pot cannot hold a quart . The earthy soul cannot take in the spiritual conception . Love , aspiration ...
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... Passing from a personal , inward feeling or thought into the external symbols or speech that may communi- cate to others the truth felt within , it is exposed to the imperfections of language and to the errors of interpretation . There ...
... Passing from a personal , inward feeling or thought into the external symbols or speech that may communi- cate to others the truth felt within , it is exposed to the imperfections of language and to the errors of interpretation . There ...
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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.