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... admit of degrees , and lead to all shades of belief , from the faintest probability up to what is called moral certainty . Demonstrative reasoning , on the other hand , has no degrees ; a proposition is established by it either ...
... admit of degrees , and lead to all shades of belief , from the faintest probability up to what is called moral certainty . Demonstrative reasoning , on the other hand , has no degrees ; a proposition is established by it either ...
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... admit of num- ber , arrangement , and classification . These phenomena , again , are not produced fortuitously , or at random , but are subject to fixed laws , more or less obvious , that may 24 PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY .
... admit of num- ber , arrangement , and classification . These phenomena , again , are not produced fortuitously , or at random , but are subject to fixed laws , more or less obvious , that may 24 PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY .
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... admit a Deity , except in that pantheistic sense which regards God as a pure idea that is necessarily involved in all existence , and ends in an avowed identification of the Divinity with the material universe . The title of his book ...
... admit a Deity , except in that pantheistic sense which regards God as a pure idea that is necessarily involved in all existence , and ends in an avowed identification of the Divinity with the material universe . The title of his book ...
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... admitting no reality or actual being , except as each , during the moment of its con- tinuance , affirms its own existence . The mind is like a string of beads with the string taken away , each bead being seen or known to exist only by ...
... admitting no reality or actual being , except as each , during the moment of its con- tinuance , affirms its own existence . The mind is like a string of beads with the string taken away , each bead being seen or known to exist only by ...
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... admit it , but I say that it is also the popular notion , the ordinary significance of a very common word , -that ... Admitting , as every rational being must do , that every event , change , or be- ginning of existence must have an ...
... admit it , but I say that it is also the popular notion , the ordinary significance of a very common word , -that ... Admitting , as every rational being must do , that every event , change , or be- ginning of existence must have an ...
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit agency animal antecedent appetites argument argument from design attributes believe benevolence body brute called causation character chemical affinity Christianity conceive conception conclusion conduct conscience consciousness consequences considered constitution creation Creator Deity direct distinct Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart duty earth effect efficient cause ence enjoyment evidence evil exertion existence experience external fact faculty faith happiness human ical idea induction infer infinite infinite series inquiry instance instinct intellect knowledge Lecture manifested mankind material matter means ment metaphysical mind moral government moral universe motion motives Natural Religion natural theology never object obligation observation organ outward peculiar perfect person phenomena philosophical physical science pleasure polytheism principles proof prove purpose question reason relations relations of ideas religious respect revelation sense skepticism soul Spinoza suppose theory things tion truth universe virtue whole wisdom
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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 283 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 297 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws : they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Page 440 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
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 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 422 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 441 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
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.