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... obligations . The course of the student of science , the honest and sincere inquirer after knowledge , often appears adverse or injurious to the feelings or the faith - the prejudices , if you like of the religious believer , the devout ...
... obligations . The course of the student of science , the honest and sincere inquirer after knowledge , often appears adverse or injurious to the feelings or the faith - the prejudices , if you like of the religious believer , the devout ...
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... obligation , I affirm what no human being , in the full possession of his reason , will dare to deny , any more than to question the conclusions of the geometer . But if in- formed , on some express occasion , that I am bound to tell ...
... obligation , I affirm what no human being , in the full possession of his reason , will dare to deny , any more than to question the conclusions of the geometer . But if in- formed , on some express occasion , that I am bound to tell ...
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... obligation , overriding all considerations of personal interest , and needing to be prosecuted with a martyr's zeal perhaps even to a martyr's fate . But this admission does not justify me , on a particular occasion , in shutting my ...
... obligation , overriding all considerations of personal interest , and needing to be prosecuted with a martyr's zeal perhaps even to a martyr's fate . But this admission does not justify me , on a particular occasion , in shutting my ...
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... obligation , so that it must be buoyed up and enforced by the will of God before its dictates are bind- ing upon man . Right is of necessary and inherent obligation , anterior to all command . But the precept added gives another aspect ...
... obligation , so that it must be buoyed up and enforced by the will of God before its dictates are bind- ing upon man . Right is of necessary and inherent obligation , anterior to all command . But the precept added gives another aspect ...
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... not of merely transmitted power . Fourthly , a cardinal point in the system is a denial of the freedom of the will , and the consequent doing away with all sense of moral obligation , all 15 THE ARGUMENT FOR FREE AGENCY . 113.
... not of merely transmitted power . Fourthly , a cardinal point in the system is a denial of the freedom of the will , and the consequent doing away with all sense of moral obligation , all 15 THE ARGUMENT FOR FREE AGENCY . 113.
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Abraham Tucker absolute abstract action admit agency animal antecedent appetites applied 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 matter means ment metaphysical mind moral government moral universe motion motives Natural Religion natural theology necessary never object obligation observation organ outward peculiar perfect person phenomena philosophical physical science pleasure polytheism principles proof prove purpose question reason relations of ideas religious respect revelation sense skepticism soul Spinoza suppose theory things tion truth universe virtue whole wisdom