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... NOT PROOF FROM A CAUSE , 424 XXXVIII . SOME A PRIORI ARGUMENTS , • • 425 XXXIX . RECENT SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND THEIS- TIC PROOF , XL . ON SOME OBJECTIONS , . . 433 437 THEIS M. LECTURE I. ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO Contents .
... NOT PROOF FROM A CAUSE , 424 XXXVIII . SOME A PRIORI ARGUMENTS , • • 425 XXXIX . RECENT SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND THEIS- TIC PROOF , XL . ON SOME OBJECTIONS , . . 433 437 THEIS M. LECTURE I. ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO Contents .
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... speculative individuals . India is no exception , for even there , in order to gain and retain the people , pantheism has had to combine with polytheism . It is the personal gods of Hindu polytheism and not the impersonal principle of ...
... speculative individuals . India is no exception , for even there , in order to gain and retain the people , pantheism has had to combine with polytheism . It is the personal gods of Hindu polytheism and not the impersonal principle of ...
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... speculation , and yet may mani- fest a marked inability to think of God as a cause or will , with a consequently inveterate tendency to pantheism . The Hindu mind , and the systems of religion and philosophy to which it has given birth ...
... speculation , and yet may mani- fest a marked inability to think of God as a cause or will , with a consequently inveterate tendency to pantheism . The Hindu mind , and the systems of religion and philosophy to which it has given birth ...
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... speculation , some training in philosophy , is needed to make us reflect on them ; and until we reflect on them we cannot be expected to do them justice in the for- mation of our religious convictions . Those who have never thought on ...
... speculation , some training in philosophy , is needed to make us reflect on them ; and until we reflect on them we cannot be expected to do them justice in the for- mation of our religious convictions . Those who have never thought on ...
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... speculation that all the power and order in the universe , and all the wisdom and goodness in humanity , are the reflections ... speculative reason that religion is prevented from becoming a degrading anthropomorphism , that the mind is ...
... speculation that all the power and order in the universe , and all the wisdom and goodness in humanity , are the reflections ... speculative reason that religion is prevented from becoming a degrading anthropomorphism , that the mind is ...
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