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... . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
... . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
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... we should , if ignorant of the occurrence of eclip- ses , have an undoubted right to pause in belief , until the causation and necessity of them were explained and satisfactorily proved to us ; after such proof THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 47.
... we should , if ignorant of the occurrence of eclip- ses , have an undoubted right to pause in belief , until the causation and necessity of them were explained and satisfactorily proved to us ; after such proof THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 47.
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... belief and faith . Mankind have been led into prodigi- ously extensive and deep rooted errors , by connecting belief with volition ; that is , by treating belief as an action of the mind , de- pendant on , and capable of controul by ...
... belief and faith . Mankind have been led into prodigi- ously extensive and deep rooted errors , by connecting belief with volition ; that is , by treating belief as an action of the mind , de- pendant on , and capable of controul by ...
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... belief , the belief and know- ledge induced by sight , as to give credit to an assertion , " that I held the stick with my right , and touched you with my left hand ? " The answer is obvious : " certainly you could not . " And yet , if ...
... belief , the belief and know- ledge induced by sight , as to give credit to an assertion , " that I held the stick with my right , and touched you with my left hand ? " The answer is obvious : " certainly you could not . " And yet , if ...
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... belief in her propositions strikes the mind at once , without violence , without infraction of primary laws , because the mind and those laws are derivatives from herself . I shall here introduce an episode to be- guile the tediousness ...
... belief in her propositions strikes the mind at once , without violence , without infraction of primary laws , because the mind and those laws are derivatives from herself . I shall here introduce an episode to be- guile the tediousness ...
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Page 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Page 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...