Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 9
... mental excitability or love of innovation , but in the sincerity of an earnest loyalty to truth , out of a serious desire to get at the reality of things , through all illusions and at all risks . It is not ridicule , but reason , that ...
... mental excitability or love of innovation , but in the sincerity of an earnest loyalty to truth , out of a serious desire to get at the reality of things , through all illusions and at all risks . It is not ridicule , but reason , that ...
Page 25
... mental principles of religion , its real grounds , lim- its , and proper domain , there has been a great lack of knowledge . Similarly , few scientific men have really com- prehended science . Facts of chemistry , of astrono- my , of ...
... mental principles of religion , its real grounds , lim- its , and proper domain , there has been a great lack of knowledge . Similarly , few scientific men have really com- prehended science . Facts of chemistry , of astrono- my , of ...
Page 26
... mental philosophers rather than natu- ral philosophers . And if few , either of the religious or the scientific world , have really understood the principles and proper limits of their own studies , still fewer have understood the ...
... mental philosophers rather than natu- ral philosophers . And if few , either of the religious or the scientific world , have really understood the principles and proper limits of their own studies , still fewer have understood the ...
Page 34
... mental and spiritual- laws of thought , analyses of consciousness , contra- dictions of logic . It is a question in which all the chief arguments , pro and con , were elaborated before modern Science was born . If scientific authorities ...
... mental and spiritual- laws of thought , analyses of consciousness , contra- dictions of logic . It is a question in which all the chief arguments , pro and con , were elaborated before modern Science was born . If scientific authorities ...
Page 38
... of what it deems erroneous mental construc- tions before it can erect the systems which it believes to be truer . And Theology has become so convinced of the divine accuracy of its own models of the 38 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE .
... of what it deems erroneous mental construc- tions before it can erect the systems which it believes to be truer . And Theology has become so convinced of the divine accuracy of its own models of the 38 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
551 Broadway absolute accept animal antagonism APPLETON astronomy atoms attractive Auguste Comte authority believe body cause cern chemical Chemistry Christian Church claim conceivable conception Dean of Canterbury divine doctrines earth ence ether evidence existence experience external fact faith finite force Fragments of Science gion give gravitation heat Herbert Spencer human Huxley hypotheses idea inconceivable induction infallible inference infinite inquiry intellectual intuitive Jevons John Stuart Mill knowl knowledge laws light ligion limit material matter ment mental metaphysical method mind molecule moral motion Nature never objects observation Owens College particles phenomena philosophy physical investigation planets possible present principles proof reason religion and science religious revelation says Prof scientific scientific method sense sidereal day soul space spiritual substance supposed teleological argument theism theology theories things thought tific tion true truth Tyndall universe University of Erlangen verification vibrations volume
Popular passages
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.