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... universe will , at no very distant period , be hers ; at least , no one can doubt that the future of Religion would be vastly more sure and prosperous if she could make science an ally instead of a rival . Nor for science , either , is ...
... universe will , at no very distant period , be hers ; at least , no one can doubt that the future of Religion would be vastly more sure and prosperous if she could make science an ally instead of a rival . Nor for science , either , is ...
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... universe . Religion has also two main significations : 1. In its most general significance it is the ex- pression of man's spiritual nature awakening to spiritual things . As the spiritual nature manifests itself in the various channels ...
... universe . Religion has also two main significations : 1. In its most general significance it is the ex- pression of man's spiritual nature awakening to spiritual things . As the spiritual nature manifests itself in the various channels ...
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... universe , then religion , both in its general and spe- cial sense , would , to a certain extent , stand outside of science . Science and religion would each have in a certain sense separate fields , or rather separate beginnings and ...
... universe , then religion , both in its general and spe- cial sense , would , to a certain extent , stand outside of science . Science and religion would each have in a certain sense separate fields , or rather separate beginnings and ...
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... universe , the latent truth and reality of all persistent forces . In point of fact , the extreme outcome of modern scientific re- searches essays no disproof of the religious theories of the world , nor any demonstration that there is ...
... universe , the latent truth and reality of all persistent forces . In point of fact , the extreme outcome of modern scientific re- searches essays no disproof of the religious theories of the world , nor any demonstration that there is ...
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... universe ; and no religious stud- ies can be regarded as complete or satisfactory that neglect or ignore that grand source of divine in- struction which God's handiwork presents to us . CHAPTER II . CAUSES OF THE ACTUAL ANTAGONISM OF ...
... universe ; and no religious stud- ies can be regarded as complete or satisfactory that neglect or ignore that grand source of divine in- struction which God's handiwork presents to us . CHAPTER II . CAUSES OF THE ACTUAL ANTAGONISM OF ...
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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.