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... Infinity of Extension is necessarily existing . " Under the head of this proposition I have simply to invite the reader's atten- tion to the extreme modesty , and consequent safety , of Mr. Gillespie's initial assumption . We are merely ...
... Infinity of Extension is necessarily existing . " Under the head of this proposition I have simply to invite the reader's atten- tion to the extreme modesty , and consequent safety , of Mr. Gillespie's initial assumption . We are merely ...
Page 81
... Infinity of Extension is necessarily indivisible , is as much as to say , the parts of Infinity of Extension are necessarily indivisible from each other . " Now , to divide matter is to alter the relative position of its parts in space ...
... Infinity of Extension is necessarily indivisible , is as much as to say , the parts of Infinity of Extension are necessarily indivisible from each other . " Now , to divide matter is to alter the relative position of its parts in space ...
Page 82
... Infinity of Extension . " Against this no one can have any reasonable objection . For a thing must either be capable of existing by itself , or else not . If the former is the case with " Infinity of Extension , " that is just what is ...
... Infinity of Extension . " Against this no one can have any reasonable objection . For a thing must either be capable of existing by itself , or else not . If the former is the case with " Infinity of Extension , " that is just what is ...
Page 83
... Infinity of Extension is necessarily of unity and simplicity . " Now if the being here spoken of be infinity of exten- sion itself , the acknowledged indivisibility of infinity of extension carries the two characteristics above ...
... Infinity of Extension is necessarily of unity and simplicity . " Now if the being here spoken of be infinity of exten- sion itself , the acknowledged indivisibility of infinity of extension carries the two characteristics above ...
Page 84
... infinity of extension he could only have been warranted in inferring that the substratum of infinity of extension is indivisible so far forth as its attribute of infinite extension is concerned , which is only another way of saying that ...
... infinity of extension he could only have been warranted in inferring that the substratum of infinity of extension is indivisible so far forth as its attribute of infinite extension is concerned , which is only another way of saying that ...
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Page 245 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Page 11 - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same, — a feeling' in our own mind; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which, in properly cultivated moral natures, rises in the more serious cases into shrinking from it as an impossiLility.
Page 52 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 235 - ... for every fact of consciousness, whether in the domain of sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain...
Page 59 - The gravity, solidity, age, and probity of so great an emperor, who through the whole course of his life, conversed in a familiar manner, with his friends and courtiers, and never affected those extraordinary airs of divinity assumed by Alexander and Demetrius.
Page 243 - God! — Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and forever.
Page 140 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 248 - Back to thy hell ! Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel; Thou never shall possess me, that I know: What I have done is done; I bear within A torture which could nothing gain from thine : The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts...
Page 225 - But the principle or inclination in one case is self-love ; in the other, hatred or love of another. There is then a distinction between the cool principle of self-love, or general desire of our own happiness, as one part of our nature, and one principle of action ; and the particular affections towards particular external objects, as another part of our nature, and another principle of action.
Page 193 - It is therefore evident there can be no substratum of those qualities but spirit; in which they exist, not by way of mode or property, but as a thing perceived in that which perceives it.