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... mankind . According to this theory , there are many stages of progress for the human intellect , and men pass on from religion to philosophy as they do from barbarism to civilization . Now , before conflicting claims like these can be ...
... mankind . According to this theory , there are many stages of progress for the human intellect , and men pass on from religion to philosophy as they do from barbarism to civilization . Now , before conflicting claims like these can be ...
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... Mankind in all ages , " says Mr. Mill , " have had a strong propensity to conclude that wherever there is a name , there must be a distinguishable separate entity corre- sponding , and every complex idea which the mind has formed for ...
... Mankind in all ages , " says Mr. Mill , " have had a strong propensity to conclude that wherever there is a name , there must be a distinguishable separate entity corre- sponding , and every complex idea which the mind has formed for ...
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... mankind will not explain the introduction of a new species , a new race , among those formerly in being , and certainly not the beginning of life itself in a world till then inanimate . If you say that the lower forms of life may be ...
... mankind will not explain the introduction of a new species , a new race , among those formerly in being , and certainly not the beginning of life itself in a world till then inanimate . If you say that the lower forms of life may be ...
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... mankind would instantly adopt it without hesitation , just as they do an intuitive truth , if it were not for our familiarity with such results , arising from their countless number and constant repetition . One such birth ...
... mankind would instantly adopt it without hesitation , just as they do an intuitive truth , if it were not for our familiarity with such results , arising from their countless number and constant repetition . One such birth ...
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... mankind : Could you possibly hesitate a mo- ment concerning the cause of this voice , and must you not in- stantly ascribe it to some design or purpose ? Yet I cannot see but all the same objections ( if they merit that appellation ) ...
... mankind : Could you possibly hesitate a mo- ment concerning the cause of this voice , and must you not in- stantly ascribe it to some design or purpose ? Yet I cannot see but all the same objections ( if they merit that appellation ) ...
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Page 35 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 144 - 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, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 92 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 371 - What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize...
Page 137 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 164 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 51 - In short, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences.