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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... seems to require but little consideration to render it evident . Yet it is very generally misconceived . That prolific source of mistake , the ambiguity of terms , operates B very widely in introducing confusion of thought into all ...
... seems to require but little consideration to render it evident . Yet it is very generally misconceived . That prolific source of mistake , the ambiguity of terms , operates B very widely in introducing confusion of thought into all ...
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... seems to me great need of attempts at a better elucidation than is commonly afforded . And in immediate connexion with these topics , the relation in which the scripture stands to philosophy , ( especi- ally where its expressions may be ...
... seems to me great need of attempts at a better elucidation than is commonly afforded . And in immediate connexion with these topics , the relation in which the scripture stands to philosophy , ( especi- ally where its expressions may be ...
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... seems requisite in eluci- dation of the great principles of the inquiry . And in a searching and inquiring age , it becomes more peculiarly needful to analyze the nature of our evidence ; and to be able , with that confidence which ...
... seems requisite in eluci- dation of the great principles of the inquiry . And in a searching and inquiring age , it becomes more peculiarly needful to analyze the nature of our evidence ; and to be able , with that confidence which ...
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... and tendency of the inquiry seems to be wholly mistaken and inverted . • Natural Theology , p . 39 . + Magazine of Popular Science , vol . i . p . 41 . Natural philosophy is considered to engage the mind in the 4 INTRODUCTION .
... and tendency of the inquiry seems to be wholly mistaken and inverted . • Natural Theology , p . 39 . + Magazine of Popular Science , vol . i . p . 41 . Natural philosophy is considered to engage the mind in the 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... seems abundant promise may before long be the case , the course of public opinion shall take a direction in accordance with the just claims of physical science , how infinitely more pernicious will it be that this absurd and unhappy ...
... seems abundant promise may before long be the case , the course of public opinion shall take a direction in accordance with the just claims of physical science , how infinitely more pernicious will it be that this absurd and unhappy ...
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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...