Lowell Lectures: On the Application of Metaphysical and Ethical Science to the Evidence of ReligionC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1849 - 465 páginas |
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... established facts , and who can be dazzled by the fluent use of scientific phraseology . Such speculations are easily exposed in their true character even by those whose studies have not gone . beyond the limit which every educated ...
... established facts , and who can be dazzled by the fluent use of scientific phraseology . Such speculations are easily exposed in their true character even by those whose studies have not gone . beyond the limit which every educated ...
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... establish this point is the object of the present lecture . We must begin with definitions , and if these appear somewhat abstruse at first , I hope they will become clearer as we go on . The simplest as well as the most comprehensive ...
... establish this point is the object of the present lecture . We must begin with definitions , and if these appear somewhat abstruse at first , I hope they will become clearer as we go on . The simplest as well as the most comprehensive ...
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... establishing a universal principle by a priori evidence . In the science of Mechanics , we make a great advance , as many abstractions are employed , friction , the rigidity of materials , and the resistance of the air , being generally ...
... establishing a universal principle by a priori evidence . In the science of Mechanics , we make a great advance , as many abstractions are employed , friction , the rigidity of materials , and the resistance of the air , being generally ...
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... established by it either conclusively or not at all . If successful , it would be contradictory and absurd to deny the conclusion , the proof being then equivalent , but not superior , to that which in the former case renders a fact ...
... established by it either conclusively or not at all . If successful , it would be contradictory and absurd to deny the conclusion , the proof being then equivalent , but not superior , to that which in the former case renders a fact ...
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... established or refuted . Our only interest in the matter , looking at it , not as philosophers , nor as students of sci- ence , but as men , arises from the influence which the fact , if proved , will have upon our conduct and the ...
... established or refuted . Our only interest in the matter , looking at it , not as philosophers , nor as students of sci- ence , but as men , arises from the influence which the fact , if proved , will have upon our conduct and the ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.