A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1888 - 410 pages |
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absolute affirm agnosticism animal antecedent antithesis apprehension argument from design Aristotle attributes belief causality cause character co-existence cognition conceive conception consciousness constitution contents critical philosophy Ding-an-sich distinction Divine doctrine effect elements empirical essence Ethics existence experience external fact faculty feeling Fichte force former function give ground human idea ideal impossible infinite inner intellectual intelligence intuition J. S. Mill judgment Kant Kant's knowledge less ligion limits logical look matter means mind moral nature never non-Ego noumena noumenon object organism ourselves outer passive perception percipient phenomena phenomenon philosophy Plato possible predicate present prior Protagoras question reality Reason relation relativity of knowledge religion rule Schopenhauer self-consciousness sensations sense simply space subjective idealism suppose synthetic proposition teleology Theism theory things thought tion true truth understanding unity universe volition whole word
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Page 1 - belief in an Ever-living God, that is, a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding Moral relations with mankind...
Page 283 - In short, the shape and structure of the teeth regulate the forms of the condyle, of the shoulder-blade, and of the claws, in the same manner as the equation of a curve regulates all its other properties ; and, as in regard to any particular curve, all its properties may be ascertained by assuming each separate property as the foundation of a particular equation ; in the same manner, a claw, a shoulderblade, a condyle, a leg or...
Page 94 - I go into another room, and though I have ceased to see it, I am persuaded that the paper is still there. I no longer have the sensations which it gave me ; but I believe that when I again place myself in the circumstances in which I had those sensations, that is, when I go again into the room, I shall again have them ; and further, that there has been no intervening moment at which this would not have been the case.
Page 12 - ... which has become the commonplace of our age, it is well to remember that, so long as they are dreams of future possibility, and not faiths in present...
Page 26 - The rule of right, the symmetries of character, the requirements of perfection, are no provincialisms of this planet : they are known among the stars...
Page 262 - ... quos quaeque darent motus pepigere profecto, sed quia multa modis multis primordia rerum ex infinito iam tempore percita plagis ponderibusque suis consuerunt concita ferri omnimodisque coire atque omnia pertemptare...
Page 331 - ... emphasized ; but rather to a temper somewhat more loyal to Nature than is usual in our cynical age. In estimating a charge, against any contrivance, of failure to answer its end, we must start with a clear conception of that end ; else we may measure the means by a false or 1 Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, translated by E. Atkinson, with an Introduction by Professor Tyndall, 1873, vi ; Recent Progress of the Theory of Vision, translated by Dr. Pye Smith, p. 219.
Page 257 - ... at once the place of the sun in the zodiac, his declination from the equator, the day of the month, the length of the day, &c., &c. It would indeed be presumption in him, being unacquainted both with the...
Page 314 - Address, not from the study of nature, but from the observation of men— a theory which converts the Power whose garment is seen in the visible universe into an Artificer, fashioned after the human model, and acting by broken efforts as man is seen to act. On the other side we have the conception that all we see around us, and all we feel within us— the phenomena of physical nature as well as those of the human...
Page 257 - ... think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that " when he took notice, that the valves in the veins of so many " parts of the body were so placed, that they gave free passage " to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of " the venal blood the contrary way, he was invited to...