The Natural History of AtheismDaldy, Isbister, 1877 - 247 pages |
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... force , and something that is acted on , called matter ; but it takes its shape from no intelligent or designing cause , merely from blind chance ; or at least that it is a self - existent combination of forces and the results of forces ...
... force , and something that is acted on , called matter ; but it takes its shape from no intelligent or designing cause , merely from blind chance ; or at least that it is a self - existent combination of forces and the results of forces ...
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... force . Not only all the unsophisti- cated masses of men , but all the great originators of philosophic schools and the founders of churches , have been theists . Moses , David , and Solomon ; Pythagoras and Anaxagoras ; Socrates ...
... force . Not only all the unsophisti- cated masses of men , but all the great originators of philosophic schools and the founders of churches , have been theists . Moses , David , and Solomon ; Pythagoras and Anaxagoras ; Socrates ...
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... forces us imperiously to assert . If a glib creature , for instance , calling himself , or being called , a philosopher , should maintain that beauty depends on utility and fitness , you may safely let him spin as many chapters as he ...
... forces us imperiously to assert . If a glib creature , for instance , calling himself , or being called , a philosopher , should maintain that beauty depends on utility and fitness , you may safely let him spin as many chapters as he ...
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... glassing themselves com- placently in their own real or imagined perfections , which are very far from exhausting the sum - total of plastic forces in the universe . CHAPTER II . REASONABLE GROUND OF THEISM . Εστι δή PRESUMPTIONS . 25.
... glassing themselves com- placently in their own real or imagined perfections , which are very far from exhausting the sum - total of plastic forces in the universe . CHAPTER II . REASONABLE GROUND OF THEISM . Εστι δή PRESUMPTIONS . 25.
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... forces the reasonable mind of man to assert that there is a cause within them , or behind them , which makes the invariability possible . As to the second pro- position , that a series of reasonable effects can be produced without a ...
... forces the reasonable mind of man to assert that there is a cause within them , or behind them , which makes the invariability possible . As to the second pro- position , that a series of reasonable effects can be produced without a ...
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