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... believe unless you prove to them that what they are called upon to believe does not contradict the laws of their minds , and that it rests upon a solid and unshaken foundation . " In former conflicts , the struggle had been to preserve ...
... believe unless you prove to them that what they are called upon to believe does not contradict the laws of their minds , and that it rests upon a solid and unshaken foundation . " In former conflicts , the struggle had been to preserve ...
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... believe , that science can do its best work . To bring , then , these two poles of modern thought into harmonious relations with each other , is a work of prime importance . On it depend the integrity and coördination of those two ...
... believe , that science can do its best work . To bring , then , these two poles of modern thought into harmonious relations with each other , is a work of prime importance . On it depend the integrity and coördination of those two ...
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... believe , useless , if not mischievous . Nor is it to do , what so many have essayed , to show de- tailed coincidences or particular correspondences be- tween the present results of science and the testi- mony of the Scriptures ; to ...
... believe , useless , if not mischievous . Nor is it to do , what so many have essayed , to show de- tailed coincidences or particular correspondences be- tween the present results of science and the testi- mony of the Scriptures ; to ...
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... believe it does everywhere ) evidence of a First Cause , this would no more contradict religion than the failure of religion to disclose the secondary causes of phenomena contradicts science . The word of each is good for its own ...
... believe it does everywhere ) evidence of a First Cause , this would no more contradict religion than the failure of religion to disclose the secondary causes of phenomena contradicts science . The word of each is good for its own ...
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... believe that Nature is no independent power , man's perceptive and reasoning faculties no unmean- ing or deceptive instruments , but that both physical and human nature are works of God , existing as he wishes them to exist , reflecting ...
... believe that Nature is no independent power , man's perceptive and reasoning faculties no unmean- ing or deceptive instruments , but that both physical and human nature are works of God , existing as he wishes them to exist , reflecting ...
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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.