Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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Page 11
... regard life and death in the same way , and cannot solve in the same way the problems which they present to the intellect and the heart . These different theories naturally - yea , necessarily - yield different moral results . Now ...
... regard life and death in the same way , and cannot solve in the same way the problems which they present to the intellect and the heart . These different theories naturally - yea , necessarily - yield different moral results . Now ...
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... regard theism as merely or even mainly a tradi- tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that ...
... regard theism as merely or even mainly a tradi- tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that ...
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... regards general features . To perceive the mere general outline and general aspect of a truth is one thing , and to know it thoroughly , to realise it ex- haustively — which is the only way thoroughly to know it — is another and very ...
... regards general features . To perceive the mere general outline and general aspect of a truth is one thing , and to know it thoroughly , to realise it ex- haustively — which is the only way thoroughly to know it — is another and very ...
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... regard it as not an eternal exist- ence , but one which has had an origin . Whatever we believe , however , to have had an origin , we at once believe also to have had a cause . The theistic argument assumes that this belief is true ...
... regard it as not an eternal exist- ence , but one which has had an origin . Whatever we believe , however , to have had an origin , we at once believe also to have had a cause . The theistic argument assumes that this belief is true ...
Page 121
... is the reason why we cannot entertain the thought of an infinite regress of causes , or that the incapacity of the mind to regard the thought of an infinite regress of causes as The Law of Causality and a Self - existent Cause . 121.
... is the reason why we cannot entertain the thought of an infinite regress of causes , or that the incapacity of the mind to regard the thought of an infinite regress of causes as The Law of Causality and a Self - existent Cause . 121.
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