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... sense of Hebrew numer- als and the supernatural efficacy of drops of water , to ward off the blows of a nearer enemy- -an in- vader who is pushing his way already with uplifted battle - axe into the Holy of Holies . In former assaults ...
... sense of Hebrew numer- als and the supernatural efficacy of drops of water , to ward off the blows of a nearer enemy- -an in- vader who is pushing his way already with uplifted battle - axe into the Holy of Holies . In former assaults ...
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... sense it signifies all systema- tized and trustworthy knowledge . It takes , as its field , all that can be known with reasonable certain- ty , and affiliated with previous knowledge into a con- sistent whole . In its narrower and more ...
... sense it signifies all systema- tized and trustworthy knowledge . It takes , as its field , all that can be known with reasonable certain- ty , and affiliated with previous knowledge into a con- sistent whole . In its narrower and more ...
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... sense of an Infinite and Creative Spirit , on whom man is de- pendent , and to whom he owes gratitude , obedience , and reverence . This is the broader signification of religion . 2. In a more special sense it is restricted to the ...
... sense of an Infinite and Creative Spirit , on whom man is de- pendent , and to whom he owes gratitude , obedience , and reverence . This is the broader signification of religion . 2. In a more special sense it is restricted to the ...
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... sense , " the particular knowl- edges or beliefs attained to by the awakening of man's spiritual nature , " more or less coincides with this , and forms a subdivision of science , just in the degree that its doctrines are valid and ...
... sense , " the particular knowl- edges or beliefs attained to by the awakening of man's spiritual nature , " more or less coincides with this , and forms a subdivision of science , just in the degree that its doctrines are valid and ...
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... sense of science , the systematized knowledge derived from the study of the physical universe , then religion , both in its general and spe- cial sense , would , to a certain extent , stand outside of science . Science and religion ...
... sense of science , the systematized knowledge derived from the study of the physical universe , then religion , both in its general and spe- cial sense , would , to a certain extent , stand outside of science . Science and religion ...
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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.