Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... given to them must determine whether religion and Christianity ought to be received or rejected . There can be no use in discussing other religious questions so long as these fundamental ones . have not been thoughtfully studied and ...
... given to them must determine whether religion and Christianity ought to be received or rejected . There can be no use in discussing other religious questions so long as these fundamental ones . have not been thoughtfully studied and ...
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... given up the lower for the higher forms of poly- theism , and then abandoned polytheism for the- ism , so they may now surrender theism itself for systems like the positivism of Comte or the new faith of Strauss ? No. And for two ...
... given up the lower for the higher forms of poly- theism , and then abandoned polytheism for the- ism , so they may now surrender theism itself for systems like the positivism of Comte or the new faith of Strauss ? No. And for two ...
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... given by the physical universe , the minds of men , and human history . Nothing short of that is the full proof . There may be points in space and instants in time where creative and sus- taining power appear to our narrow and ...
... given by the physical universe , the minds of men , and human history . Nothing short of that is the full proof . There may be points in space and instants in time where creative and sus- taining power appear to our narrow and ...
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... given birth , may serve as illustration and proof . Where the animal nature of man is strong , and his moral and spiritual nature still undeveloped , as is the case among all rude and undisciplined races , he worships not the pure and ...
... given birth , may serve as illustration and proof . Where the animal nature of man is strong , and his moral and spiritual nature still undeveloped , as is the case among all rude and undisciplined races , he worships not the pure and ...
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... be shown that a mind possessed of sufficient power to originate the universe , the ultimate elements of matter being given , could not also have created these elements ? that the Supreme Intelligence , which gave 108 Theism .
... be shown that a mind possessed of sufficient power to originate the universe , the ultimate elements of matter being given , could not also have created these elements ? that the Supreme Intelligence , which gave 108 Theism .
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