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... evidence of extraordinary power in any domain , there is a tendency to credit it with similar power in all other domains . Thus theologians have found comfort in the thought that Newton dealt with the question of reve- lation forgetful ...
... evidence of extraordinary power in any domain , there is a tendency to credit it with similar power in all other domains . Thus theologians have found comfort in the thought that Newton dealt with the question of reve- lation forgetful ...
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... Evidences , in the last January number of the Sunday at Home , he makes the following valuable remarks : - " We have neglected and even discouraged the study of evidences ; 14 Materialism .
... Evidences , in the last January number of the Sunday at Home , he makes the following valuable remarks : - " We have neglected and even discouraged the study of evidences ; 14 Materialism .
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James Michell Winn. have neglected and even discouraged the study of evidences ; we have trusted entirely to the inward testimony , and to subjective persuasions , and we now find ourselves face to face with ably urged arguments and ...
James Michell Winn. have neglected and even discouraged the study of evidences ; we have trusted entirely to the inward testimony , and to subjective persuasions , and we now find ourselves face to face with ably urged arguments and ...
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... evidence of the truth of their hypothesis , that mental affections are only diseases of the body . They speak of this as a modern discovery , whereas it was mentioned by Gassendi more than two hundred years ago . That the mind may be ...
... evidence of the truth of their hypothesis , that mental affections are only diseases of the body . They speak of this as a modern discovery , whereas it was mentioned by Gassendi more than two hundred years ago . That the mind may be ...
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James Michell Winn. questionable whether there is positive evidence of brain disease in all cases of acute mania , although degeneration of the brain tissue is sure to be the effect of insanity in chronic cases . It is a well - known ...
James Michell Winn. questionable whether there is positive evidence of brain disease in all cases of acute mania , although degeneration of the brain tissue is sure to be the effect of insanity in chronic cases . It is a well - known ...
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Page 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Page 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Page 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Page 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Page 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Page 65 - 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.