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... present century some of our best scientific workers have been members of the clerical profession . Few names among geologists are more distinguished than that of the Rev. W. D. Conybeare , the discoverer of the Plesiosaurus , or that of ...
... present century some of our best scientific workers have been members of the clerical profession . Few names among geologists are more distinguished than that of the Rev. W. D. Conybeare , the discoverer of the Plesiosaurus , or that of ...
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James Michell Winn. somewhat curiously at this present time , as if to refute Dr. Tyndall , that two of the observers appointed to watch the transit of Venus were the Rev. Father Perry , Astronomer of Stony- hurst College , and the Rev ...
James Michell Winn. somewhat curiously at this present time , as if to refute Dr. Tyndall , that two of the observers appointed to watch the transit of Venus were the Rev. Father Perry , Astronomer of Stony- hurst College , and the Rev ...
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... - pher that ever lived , there was in him none of that conceit or intellectual pride so conspicuous in the writings of many of the physiologists and philosophers of the present day . To him the proverbial 12 Materialism .
... - pher that ever lived , there was in him none of that conceit or intellectual pride so conspicuous in the writings of many of the physiologists and philosophers of the present day . To him the proverbial 12 Materialism .
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James Michell Winn. philosophers of the present day . To him the proverbial saying , “ Science puffeth up , " does not apply ; for his modesty was so great that it has been reported of him that he compared himself to a child gathering ...
James Michell Winn. philosophers of the present day . To him the proverbial saying , “ Science puffeth up , " does not apply ; for his modesty was so great that it has been reported of him that he compared himself to a child gathering ...
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... present phase are , in truth , insurmountable . The chief argument in its favour , that on which so much stress is laid , is nothing more than a common fact , well known to all breeders of animals and to every common gardener that an ...
... present phase are , in truth , insurmountable . The chief argument in its favour , that on which so much stress is laid , is nothing more than a common fact , well known to all breeders of animals and to every common gardener that an ...
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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.