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... speculations of those advantages , in point of continuity , which , to the utmost of my power , I have endeavoured to give them . But I would willingly in- dulge the hope , that this is a blemish more likely to meet the eye of the ...
... speculations of those advantages , in point of continuity , which , to the utmost of my power , I have endeavoured to give them . But I would willingly in- dulge the hope , that this is a blemish more likely to meet the eye of the ...
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... Speculation concerning Final Causes 1. Opinion of Lord Bacon on the Subject . - Final Causes rejected by Descartes , and by the majority of French Philosophers . - Recognised as legitimate Objects of research by Newton . - Tacitly ...
... Speculation concerning Final Causes 1. Opinion of Lord Bacon on the Subject . - Final Causes rejected by Descartes , and by the majority of French Philosophers . - Recognised as legitimate Objects of research by Newton . - Tacitly ...
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... speculations with an attentive perusal . My real aim is , in the first place , to explain the grounds of my own deviations from the track which has been commonly pursued , and , secondly , to facilitate the progress of such as may fol ...
... speculations with an attentive perusal . My real aim is , in the first place , to explain the grounds of my own deviations from the track which has been commonly pursued , and , secondly , to facilitate the progress of such as may fol ...
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... speculation , if all are qualified to understand , all are not fitted to teach . The merit of accommodating easily to the apprehension of others , no- tions which are at once simple and just , appears , from its extreme rarity , to be ...
... speculation , if all are qualified to understand , all are not fitted to teach . The merit of accommodating easily to the apprehension of others , no- tions which are at once simple and just , appears , from its extreme rarity , to be ...
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... speculations which are to follow . As these differ , in some essential points , from the conclusions of former writers , I found myself under the necessity of abandoning , in various in- stances , their phraseology ; -but my reasons for ...
... speculations which are to follow . As these differ , in some essential points , from the conclusions of former writers , I found myself under the necessity of abandoning , in various in- stances , their phraseology ; -but my reasons for ...
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Page 327 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 327 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 5 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 67 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find, that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other : and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge.
Page 162 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion.
Page 261 - And although the arguing from Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the Induction is more general.
Page 76 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Page 119 - In like manner, when it is said, that " triangles on the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal...
Page 139 - If a straight line meet two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Page 162 - He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so...