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... thing that seems to act . Language is formed upon these early sentiments , and attributes action and power to things that are afterwards discovered to have neither will nor power . By this means , the notion of action and causation is ...
... thing that seems to act . Language is formed upon these early sentiments , and attributes action and power to things that are afterwards discovered to have neither will nor power . By this means , the notion of action and causation is ...
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... things that now are , " - a loose and indeterminate expression , which means , if it means any thing , the universe of animate and inan- imate being , though the existence of this universe is certainly made known to us only by physical ...
... things that now are , " - a loose and indeterminate expression , which means , if it means any thing , the universe of animate and inan- imate being , though the existence of this universe is certainly made known to us only by physical ...
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... things cannot have been created by machinery . – Let us see , then , whether this hypothesis of machinery , as the secret of the creation , not of a universe , but of individual things or real existences , is any thing more than a blank ...
... things cannot have been created by machinery . – Let us see , then , whether this hypothesis of machinery , as the secret of the creation , not of a universe , but of individual things or real existences , is any thing more than a blank ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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