The Universalist Quarterly and General ReviewA. Tompkins, 1884 - Universalism |
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... final cause " of the picture . Although there are some well founded objections to the term , final cause , " the fact that it has been used with varying meanings , is a criticism against those employing the term rather than against the ...
... final cause " of the picture . Although there are some well founded objections to the term , final cause , " the fact that it has been used with varying meanings , is a criticism against those employing the term rather than against the ...
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... final cause , the pre - ex- istent idea , is its constructive power , its guiding force . It selects the material and adapts the parts for the sake of the future result . This future result , the embodied form , becomes thus the object ...
... final cause , the pre - ex- istent idea , is its constructive power , its guiding force . It selects the material and adapts the parts for the sake of the future result . This future result , the embodied form , becomes thus the object ...
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... final cause , therefore , is present , whatever its source . Between chance and finality , then , there is no middle ground . It takes an exact adjustment of parts to produce the eye . To say that matter , from the millions upon ...
... final cause , therefore , is present , whatever its source . Between chance and finality , then , there is no middle ground . It takes an exact adjustment of parts to produce the eye . To say that matter , from the millions upon ...
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... final cause certainly could not derive its existence from the will alone , a source which has neither conscious nor unconscious intelligence . We see , then , that the will , or the force , or the power , whatever its name , which works ...
... final cause certainly could not derive its existence from the will alone , a source which has neither conscious nor unconscious intelligence . We see , then , that the will , or the force , or the power , whatever its name , which works ...
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... Final causes belong to an en- tirely different line of investigation . Moreover the inability to point out the final cause is no sign that it does not exist . When , however , Mr. Mill says that intelligence implies con- trivance , and ...
... Final causes belong to an en- tirely different line of investigation . Moreover the inability to point out the final cause is no sign that it does not exist . When , however , Mr. Mill says that intelligence implies con- trivance , and ...
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Page 117 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 31 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom ; but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 34 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me: no man cared for my soul.
Page 229 - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Page 47 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 40 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Page 234 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called ; which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Page 229 - For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Page 260 - ... he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him,. What doest thou?
Page 88 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.