The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to TheologyJ.W. Parker, 1838 - 313 sivua |
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... operation of this sort of intuitive persuasion , it certainly does not amount to anything like a philo- sophical conviction of the uniformity of natural causes . It is , doubtless , restricted to certain iso- lated classes of facts ...
... operation of this sort of intuitive persuasion , it certainly does not amount to anything like a philo- sophical conviction of the uniformity of natural causes . It is , doubtless , restricted to certain iso- lated classes of facts ...
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... operation of the same physical laws in con- formity with which the changes were brought about . Instances occur where a mountain mass bears evident marks of having been forced up from be- neath , while , resting on its base , the strata ...
... operation of the same physical laws in con- formity with which the changes were brought about . Instances occur where a mountain mass bears evident marks of having been forced up from be- neath , while , resting on its base , the strata ...
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... operations , extensive and ultimately perhaps universal alterations have been accomplished in the relative position of the oceans and continents . Such effects have gone on in former periods by de- positions and inroads , by elevations ...
... operations , extensive and ultimately perhaps universal alterations have been accomplished in the relative position of the oceans and continents . Such effects have gone on in former periods by de- positions and inroads , by elevations ...
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... operations of now existing laws . And whatever may have been the magnitude of some of the operations in remote epochs , yet we find no deviation from the continu- ance of action of the same kind ; no real suspension of regular laws , no ...
... operations of now existing laws . And whatever may have been the magnitude of some of the operations in remote epochs , yet we find no deviation from the continu- ance of action of the same kind ; no real suspension of regular laws , no ...
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... operations of nature , and which we never fail to find continually amplifying and enlarging , confirming and corroborating , each other , at every step of our progress . By this mutual confirmation of concurring trains of investigation ...
... operations of nature , and which we never fail to find continually amplifying and enlarging , confirming and corroborating , each other , at every step of our progress . By this mutual confirmation of concurring trains of investigation ...
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Sivu 170 - But if the matter was evenly disposed throughout an infinite space, it could never convene into one mass, but some of it would convene into one mass, and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered at great distances from one to another throughout all that infinite space.
Sivu 170 - ... an opaque body like the planets or the planets lucid bodies like the sun, how he alone should be changed into a shining body whilst all they continue opaque, or all they be changed into opaque ones whilst he remains unchanged, I do not think explicable by mere natural causes, but am forced to ascribe it to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent.
Sivu 299 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
Sivu 313 - ... newness, to interest with a perpetual charm the growing mind of a rational being, and lead him by a flowery path t o the cultivation of the divine thing within him, which raises him above all that his senses make known; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of all this visible material world.
Sivu 81 - Effect" — a work of great acuteness and subtlety of reasoning on some points, but in which the whole train of argument is vitiated by one enormous oversight ; the omission, namely, of a distinct and immediate personal consciousness of causation in his enumeration of that sequence of events, by which the volition of the mind is made to terminate in the motion of material objects.
Sivu 73 - The laws of attraction and repulsion are to be regarded as laws of motion, and these only as rules or methods observed in the productions of natural effects, the efficient and final causes whereof are not of mechanical consideration. Certainly, if the explaining a phenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause,* it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained any thing ; their province being only to discover the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion,...
Sivu 287 - Nothing can more evince his distaste or his inferior capacity for metaphysical researches. He assumes the very position which alone sceptics dispute. In combating him they would assert that he begged the whole question ; for certainly they do not deny, at least in modern times, the fact of adaptation. As to the fundamental doctrine of causation, not the least allusion is ever made to it in any of his writings, even in his Moral Philosophy.
Sivu 260 - The only alternative is to admit that it was not intended for an HISTORICAL narrative; and if the representation cannot have been designed for literal history, it only remains to regard it as having been intended for the better enforcement of its objects in the language of...