Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of Religion |
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... lights , and looked at it from various points of view . A few additions have been made while the work was passing through the press ; but the Lectures are printed mainly as they were delivered . To have elaborated them less carefully ...
... lights , and looked at it from various points of view . A few additions have been made while the work was passing through the press ; but the Lectures are printed mainly as they were delivered . To have elaborated them less carefully ...
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... light that has recently been thrown upon the action of polar forces , one may be permitted to doubt whether he knows the meaning of the words he uses , or is able to dis- tinguish efficient from occasional causes . A far more cautious ...
... light that has recently been thrown upon the action of polar forces , one may be permitted to doubt whether he knows the meaning of the words he uses , or is able to dis- tinguish efficient from occasional causes . A far more cautious ...
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... light which obser- vation and experience afford for the application of the rule is quite as clear and convincing as the boasted demonstration which supports the abstract principle ; and in the few remaining cases , as the moral law ...
... light which obser- vation and experience afford for the application of the rule is quite as clear and convincing as the boasted demonstration which supports the abstract principle ; and in the few remaining cases , as the moral law ...
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... light , " if you will , — by the candle which the Lord hath set up in every unperverted conscience , lighting him on to that clear , absolute , and immediate conviction which knows no doubt , and quails not at any personal sacrifice ...
... light , " if you will , — by the candle which the Lord hath set up in every unperverted conscience , lighting him on to that clear , absolute , and immediate conviction which knows no doubt , and quails not at any personal sacrifice ...
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... light new facts . - Thus it appears , that we approximate the sphere of metaphysi- cal evidence and demonstrative reasoning just in proportion as we leave the world of realities and facts , and abandon the consid- eration of objects in ...
... light new facts . - Thus it appears , that we approximate the sphere of metaphysi- cal evidence and demonstrative reasoning just in proportion as we leave the world of realities and facts , and abandon the consid- eration of objects in ...
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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.