Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of Religion"These lectures were given under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston, MA in 1848-1849. In this series of lectures Bowen endeavours to show that the fundamental doctrines of religion rest upon the same basis that supports all science, and that they cannot be denied without also rejecting familiar truths that are adopted almost unconsciously, and upon which the conduct of life and the regulation of our ordinary concerns. Bowen argues that the time seems to have arrived for a more practical and immediate verification than the world has ever witnessed of the great truth, that the civilization that is not based upon Christianity is big with the elements of its own destruction." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... consciousness , no less than those which are evident to sense ; the human mind , to a certain extent , is a subject of observation and experiment , as the supposed seat or origin of various phenomena that admit of num- ber , arrangement ...
... consciousness , no less than those which are evident to sense ; the human mind , to a certain extent , is a subject of observation and experiment , as the supposed seat or origin of various phenomena that admit of num- ber , arrangement ...
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... consciousness , is a branch of physical science , the other subdivisions of which relate to those facts which come to our knowledge through the senses . But it is certainly no part of psychological inquiry to seek after the origin of ...
... consciousness , is a branch of physical science , the other subdivisions of which relate to those facts which come to our knowledge through the senses . But it is certainly no part of psychological inquiry to seek after the origin of ...
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... conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but simply stating the question , the only question which as moral beings we are concerned to answer . Whatever might be made of the ...
... conscious Cause and present Ruler of all things . I am not taking these attributes for granted , but simply stating the question , the only question which as moral beings we are concerned to answer . Whatever might be made of the ...
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... consciousness and personal identity or individuality , which is implied in this theory , will cause the doctrine to appear little more consoling than a be- lief in the termination of all things at the grave . The admitted physical fact ...
... consciousness and personal identity or individuality , which is implied in this theory , will cause the doctrine to appear little more consoling than a be- lief in the termination of all things at the grave . The admitted physical fact ...
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... conscious existence of a human being , his personality , the reality of a man to himself . Meta- physical skepticism ... consciousness has been admitted to be as legitimate a source of knowledge in physical inquiry as the evidence of the ...
... conscious existence of a human being , his personality , the reality of a man to himself . Meta- physical skepticism ... consciousness has been admitted to be as legitimate a source of knowledge in physical inquiry as the evidence of the ...
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