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... 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 , the debate ...
... 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 , the debate ...
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... rest ; the similarities of methods , objects , and general results , which exist between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER ...
... rest ; the similarities of methods , objects , and general results , which exist between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER ...
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... rest of re- ligion , the first come to be spoken of as the whole of religion . Of these beliefs , some are inessential , some essential . Where the line should be drawn has been hotly disputed , and every one , almost , makes a ...
... rest of re- ligion , the first come to be spoken of as the whole of religion . Of these beliefs , some are inessential , some essential . Where the line should be drawn has been hotly disputed , and every one , almost , makes a ...
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... rest a large part of its own fundamental doc- trines . Science , for example , accepts as the most trustworthy of all its departments the science of geometry . The truths established by it are indis- pensable to astronomy and to much of ...
... rest a large part of its own fundamental doc- trines . Science , for example , accepts as the most trustworthy of all its departments the science of geometry . The truths established by it are indis- pensable to astronomy and to much of ...
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... rest for its truth on an intuitive conviction of the veracity of the senses and the existence of an external world such as would give rise within us to our felt states of consciousness . Again , you say that you saw the rose last week ...
... rest for its truth on an intuitive conviction of the veracity of the senses and the existence of an external world such as would give rise within us to our felt states of consciousness . Again , you say that you saw the rose last week ...
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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.