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... clear- sighted observers that religion certainly cannot af- ford the continuance of any such quarrel . " The problem of our age , " said Archdeacon Hare , in his life of Sterling , " is to reconcile faith with knowledge , philosophy ...
... clear- sighted observers that religion certainly cannot af- ford the continuance of any such quarrel . " The problem of our age , " said Archdeacon Hare , in his life of Sterling , " is to reconcile faith with knowledge , philosophy ...
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... clear up some of the compli- cations and remove some of the oppositions of the controversy . My purpose is not , I wish it to be understood , to smooth over any real difficulties , to bridge any natural hiatuses , or to accommodate or ...
... clear up some of the compli- cations and remove some of the oppositions of the controversy . My purpose is not , I wish it to be understood , to smooth over any real difficulties , to bridge any natural hiatuses , or to accommodate or ...
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... of men's eyes to the facts of the world , no disclosing of the actual methods and laws of the Creation , can do any thing else ( so the truly religious should believe ) than reveal the more clear- ly NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM . 23.
... of men's eyes to the facts of the world , no disclosing of the actual methods and laws of the Creation , can do any thing else ( so the truly religious should believe ) than reveal the more clear- ly NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM . 23.
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James Thompson Bixby. religious should believe ) than reveal the more clear- ly the existence and character of their Maker . It may reveal him as acting in ways that we had not supposed . It may compel Theology to revise its schemes ...
James Thompson Bixby. religious should believe ) than reveal the more clear- ly the existence and character of their Maker . It may reveal him as acting in ways that we had not supposed . It may compel Theology to revise its schemes ...
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... clear comprehension just as much as physical things ; and the man of science who essays , because he is skillful with acids and alkalies , or has made notable discoveries about sound , or heat , or protozoa , to pronounce judgment on ...
... clear comprehension just as much as physical things ; and the man of science who essays , because he is skillful with acids and alkalies , or has made notable discoveries about sound , or heat , or protozoa , to pronounce judgment on ...
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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.