The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theism |
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... Says Tyndall : " It is by a kind of inspiration that we rise from the wise and sedulous contemplation of nature to the principles on which the facts depend . The mind is , as it were THE ACTS AND PROCESSES OF KNOWING . 67.
... Says Tyndall : " It is by a kind of inspiration that we rise from the wise and sedulous contemplation of nature to the principles on which the facts depend . The mind is , as it were THE ACTS AND PROCESSES OF KNOWING . 67.
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... depend . The mind is , as it were , a photographic plate , which is gradually cleansed by the effort to think rightly , and which when cleansed , and not before , receives impressions from the light of truth . This passage from facts to ...
... depend . The mind is , as it were , a photographic plate , which is gradually cleansed by the effort to think rightly , and which when cleansed , and not before , receives impressions from the light of truth . This passage from facts to ...
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... depends and without which man is condemned to irremediable doubt ; he sees that these fundamental principles thus necessarily be- lieved must have their reality in God , and that if God does not exist , our reason has no guaranty ; and ...
... depends and without which man is condemned to irremediable doubt ; he sees that these fundamental principles thus necessarily be- lieved must have their reality in God , and that if God does not exist , our reason has no guaranty ; and ...
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... its own self - evidence . Its reality does not depend on proof by argument and can never be invalidated by ob- jections . 8 CHAPTER V. WHAT IS KNOWN THROUGH RATIONAL INTUITION . 22. PRESENTATIVE OR PERCEPTIVE INTUITION . 113.
... its own self - evidence . Its reality does not depend on proof by argument and can never be invalidated by ob- jections . 8 CHAPTER V. WHAT IS KNOWN THROUGH RATIONAL INTUITION . 22. PRESENTATIVE OR PERCEPTIVE INTUITION . 113.
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... depends on them , and without them cannot conclude in an inference . Attempting to pass beyond them the intel- leet drops helpless in vacuity and fatuity . They are the primitive prin- ciples and constituent elements of rationality ...
... depends on them , and without them cannot conclude in an inference . Attempting to pass beyond them the intel- leet drops helpless in vacuity and fatuity . They are the primitive prin- ciples and constituent elements of rationality ...
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Page 95 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 95 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 326 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed, is he spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 340 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 407 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 190 - I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 380 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 388 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 324 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 314 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...