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... simply pre- sents a confession of the insufficiency of physical in- quiry to attain , as yet , by inductive methods , a similar result . Nay , it does not seek to deny , but it openly avows , that there is an infinite mystery behind and ...
... simply pre- sents a confession of the insufficiency of physical in- quiry to attain , as yet , by inductive methods , a similar result . Nay , it does not seek to deny , but it openly avows , that there is an infinite mystery behind and ...
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... simply bring- ing us nearer the divine reality and truth . He who confounds the march of intellect with the opera- tions of the devil , evidently inclines to trace his own origin to Satan rather than to believe the word of Scripture ...
... simply bring- ing us nearer the divine reality and truth . He who confounds the march of intellect with the opera- tions of the devil , evidently inclines to trace his own origin to Satan rather than to believe the word of Scripture ...
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... simply the Roman Church , and all else was infidelity . In Au- gustine's day , Christianity was made inseparable from the doctrines of predestination and fatalism . In Abélard's time it was bound up with the meta- physics of realism ...
... simply the Roman Church , and all else was infidelity . In Au- gustine's day , Christianity was made inseparable from the doctrines of predestination and fatalism . In Abélard's time it was bound up with the meta- physics of realism ...
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... simply exhibits modern scientists as amateur metaphysicians . Again , there are speculations and theories op- posed to religion , which are often indulged in by scientific men , and passed off for genuine science . Such , for example ...
... simply exhibits modern scientists as amateur metaphysicians . Again , there are speculations and theories op- posed to religion , which are often indulged in by scientific men , and passed off for genuine science . Such , for example ...
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... simply the moral re- lation in which man stands to God , especially with relation to a future state of being . Religious men forget this . They often take up an antagonistic position to science , and try to make out systems of geology ...
... simply the moral re- lation in which man stands to God , especially with relation to a future state of being . Religious men forget this . They often take up an antagonistic position to science , and try to make out systems of geology ...
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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.