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... mind of Christendom , is one of the most noticeable phe- nomena of the intellectual movement of the times . The constant discussions from pulpit and platform , the numerous essays , pamphlets , and books , in which these two opponents ...
... mind of Christendom , is one of the most noticeable phe- nomena of the intellectual movement of the times . The constant discussions from pulpit and platform , the numerous essays , pamphlets , and books , in which these two opponents ...
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... minds , and that it rests upon a solid and unshaken foundation . " In former conflicts , the struggle had been to preserve the Church from division , or the orthodox doctrine from aberrations or perversions . In the present controversy ...
... minds , and that it rests upon a solid and unshaken foundation . " In former conflicts , the struggle had been to preserve the Church from division , or the orthodox doctrine from aberrations or perversions . In the present controversy ...
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... minds of our children ; in thirty years will be the creed of every educated man ; and , be- fore a century has passed , will be the universal be- lief of all classes . If Christianity cannot harmonize herself with science , it is much ...
... minds of our children ; in thirty years will be the creed of every educated man ; and , be- fore a century has passed , will be the universal be- lief of all classes . If Christianity cannot harmonize herself with science , it is much ...
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... mind flowered under the inspiration of the Spirit of God , in that Bible whose original and proper name , we should al- ways remember , is , the Books ( τa Bißλ ) , not the Book - in that grand storehouse it is always pos- sible to find ...
... mind flowered under the inspiration of the Spirit of God , in that Bible whose original and proper name , we should al- ways remember , is , the Books ( τa Bißλ ) , not the Book - in that grand storehouse it is always pos- sible to find ...
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... mind and purposes , and therefore trustworthy witnesses of him . No opening 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 ...
... mind and purposes , and therefore trustworthy witnesses of him . No opening 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 ...
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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.