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... theories of these latter days , and the forms of faith which have hitherto ruled the mind of Christendom , is one of the most noticeable phe- nomena of the intellectual movement of the times . The constant discussions from pulpit and ...
... theories of these latter days , and the forms of faith which have hitherto ruled the mind of Christendom , is one of the most noticeable phe- nomena of the intellectual movement of the times . The constant discussions from pulpit and ...
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... theories : in Tertullian's age , the materiality of the soul ; in Au- gustine's , the flatness of the earth ; in the time of the schoolmen , the Aristotelian philosophy : fifty years ago , the cataclysmal systems of geology , the ...
... theories : in Tertullian's age , the materiality of the soul ; in Au- gustine's , the flatness of the earth ; in the time of the schoolmen , the Aristotelian philosophy : fifty years ago , the cataclysmal systems of geology , the ...
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... theories of the world , nor any demonstration that there is no God in the world , nor soul in man , but simply pre- sents a confession of the insufficiency of physical in- quiry to attain , as yet , by inductive methods , a similar ...
... theories of the world , nor any demonstration that there is no God in the world , nor soul in man , but simply pre- sents a confession of the insufficiency of physical in- quiry to attain , as yet , by inductive methods , a similar ...
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... theories op- posed to religion , which are often indulged in by scientific men , and passed off for genuine science . Such , for example , is the bald materialism that would make matter the sum and substance of all things ; self ...
... theories op- posed to religion , which are often indulged in by scientific men , and passed off for genuine science . Such , for example , is the bald materialism that would make matter the sum and substance of all things ; self ...
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... theories may have a quasi - scientific ba- sis ; they may be advocated by students , teachers , and writers of the scientific world ; but , nevertheless , they have no claim to call themselves science ; they have never been accepted by ...
... theories may have a quasi - scientific ba- sis ; they may be advocated by students , teachers , and writers of the scientific world ; but , nevertheless , they have no claim to call themselves science ; they have never been accepted by ...
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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.