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... regard as fallacious and misleading philosophy ( ' oppositions of science falsely so called ' ) abroad in the world at the present day . " - ( Dr . Carpenter's Address at Brighton , in 1872 , as President of the British Association for ...
... regard as fallacious and misleading philosophy ( ' oppositions of science falsely so called ' ) abroad in the world at the present day . " - ( Dr . Carpenter's Address at Brighton , in 1872 , as President of the British Association for ...
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... regard to phenomena , a knowledge that there is nothing more behind it than is seen on its surface ; denying altogether finite or infinite spirit ; repudiating the intuitions of cause and substance - transcend altogether the ex ...
... regard to phenomena , a knowledge that there is nothing more behind it than is seen on its surface ; denying altogether finite or infinite spirit ; repudiating the intuitions of cause and substance - transcend altogether the ex ...
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... regard to human science , in par- ticular , the position previously taken by the Papal See was ratified by the formal decree : " Let him be anathema- " Who shall say that human sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom ...
... regard to human science , in par- ticular , the position previously taken by the Papal See was ratified by the formal decree : " Let him be anathema- " Who shall say that human sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom ...
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... regard to the most important ecclesiastical questions ; possessed of no clear or well - defined principles concerning many essential theological issues ; the successive popes refuting and overturning each other's deci- sions ; its ...
... regard to the most important ecclesiastical questions ; possessed of no clear or well - defined principles concerning many essential theological issues ; the successive popes refuting and overturning each other's deci- sions ; its ...
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... regard to those ideas of his which were opposed to the prevalent ones of his times , it should be remembered that a reaction against current ideas is not uncommon , and as much a natural result of them and evidence of their influence ...
... regard to those ideas of his which were opposed to the prevalent ones of his times , it should be remembered that a reaction against current ideas is not uncommon , and as much a natural result of them and evidence of their influence ...
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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.