Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of Religion |
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... reason , is drawn into open hostility with our sense of duty to God , which is the most awful and imperative of all obligations . The course of the student of science , the honest and sincere inquirer after knowledge , often appears ...
... reason , is drawn into open hostility with our sense of duty to God , which is the most awful and imperative of all obligations . The course of the student of science , the honest and sincere inquirer after knowledge , often appears ...
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... reason are metaphys- ical truths , and we can no more doubt them than we can question the accuracy of the multiplication - table . Their falsity is incon- ceivable . This attribute of logical certainty proceeds from the pure , abstract ...
... reason are metaphys- ical truths , and we can no more doubt them than we can question the accuracy of the multiplication - table . Their falsity is incon- ceivable . This attribute of logical certainty proceeds from the pure , abstract ...
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... reason . When we speak of the principles of things , the term , even now , is very ambiguous and indefinite in its ... reasons for giving it this preference : first , because it was held , as before , that all knowledge might be deduced ...
... reason . When we speak of the principles of things , the term , even now , is very ambiguous and indefinite in its ... reasons for giving it this preference : first , because it was held , as before , that all knowledge might be deduced ...
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... reason- ing to physical science , that is , to matters of fact , is proved by the almost total failure of all attempts in this department for more than twenty centuries . It is not necessary to dwell here on so familiar a history as ...
... reason- ing to physical science , that is , to matters of fact , is proved by the almost total failure of all attempts in this department for more than twenty centuries . It is not necessary to dwell here on so familiar a history as ...
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... reason for this expectation the 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 ...
... reason for this expectation the 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 ...
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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.