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... Verification . CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite . CHAPTER VI . • Supposed ...
... Verification . CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite . CHAPTER VI . • Supposed ...
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... verification of them is possible . Their dogmas , as- suming for matter eternal and exclusive existence ; asserting for our narrow experience universality and necessity ; claiming , in regard to phenomena , a knowledge that there is ...
... verification of them is possible . Their dogmas , as- suming for matter eternal and exclusive existence ; asserting for our narrow experience universality and necessity ; claiming , in regard to phenomena , a knowledge that there is ...
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... verification which other kinds of truth require before it is worthy to claim man's credence . At its lowest term , this oracle is merely the spiritual intuition , the voice within the breast . In its next higher form , it is the word of ...
... verification which other kinds of truth require before it is worthy to claim man's credence . At its lowest term , this oracle is merely the spiritual intuition , the voice within the breast . In its next higher form , it is the word of ...
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... verification . But when , as is the case , numerous conflicting claims are made ; when Buddhism , Mohammedanism , Christianity , each brings forward that divine revelation , it becomes an absolute necessity for faith to discriminate ...
... verification . But when , as is the case , numerous conflicting claims are made ; when Buddhism , Mohammedanism , Christianity , each brings forward that divine revelation , it becomes an absolute necessity for faith to discriminate ...
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... verification , knowledge made amazing conquests . The human atom , looking forth from his petty pellet of planetary matter , has meas- ured and weighed the celestial bodies , traced their orbits through the heavens , divined the ...
... verification , knowledge made amazing conquests . The human atom , looking forth from his petty pellet of planetary matter , has meas- ured and weighed the celestial bodies , traced their orbits through the heavens , divined the ...
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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.