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James Thompson Bixby. SIMILARITIES OF PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE . BY JAMES THOMPSON BIXBY . NEW YORK : D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , 549 & 551 BROADWAY . 1876 . ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the.
James Thompson Bixby. SIMILARITIES OF PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE . BY JAMES THOMPSON BIXBY . NEW YORK : D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , 549 & 551 BROADWAY . 1876 . ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the.
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James Thompson Bixby. ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1876 , by D. APPLETON & COMPANY , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . 26,70 ! BL 240 · B53 " Science was Faith once ;
James Thompson Bixby. ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1876 , by D. APPLETON & COMPANY , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . 26,70 ! BL 240 · B53 " Science was Faith once ;
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... according to its own inward affinities . The atmosphere picks out its blue ; the leaves draw to themselves the emerald ; the iris chooses the purple ; the buttercup paints itself with the yel- low ; the cardinal - flower sucks its cells ...
... according to its own inward affinities . The atmosphere picks out its blue ; the leaves draw to themselves the emerald ; the iris chooses the purple ; the buttercup paints itself with the yel- low ; the cardinal - flower sucks its cells ...
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... according to him , " knows only sense - observation and the various inductions and de- ductions that may be made from it . " Hippolyte Taine says , in reference to the general ideas which correspond to real qualities , that " they are ...
... according to him , " knows only sense - observation and the various inductions and de- ductions that may be made from it . " Hippolyte Taine says , in reference to the general ideas which correspond to real qualities , that " they are ...
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... according to present laws of causation , would account for the phenomena . Not that they did cause them , nor that the laws of causation have come down unchanged , nor even that no other cause could have produced the given effects . The ...
... according to present laws of causation , would account for the phenomena . Not that they did cause them , nor that the laws of causation have come down unchanged , nor even that no other cause could have produced the given effects . The ...
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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 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
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 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.