The Emancipation of Faith, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1858 |
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... Reason , which , judging only of things from the Positive or the Relative , must seek therein its criterion of belief . Now , to point out as an object of inquiry , the " Evi- dence that there is a Being , All - powerful , Wise , and ...
... Reason , which , judging only of things from the Positive or the Relative , must seek therein its criterion of belief . Now , to point out as an object of inquiry , the " Evi- dence that there is a Being , All - powerful , Wise , and ...
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... reason cannot be exercised without faith , ( as it really is the case in all inference , ) that continual dependence ... Reason , or in the in- ferences of Reason , and not of faith in God . Nor must our avoiding to enter into any of the ...
... reason cannot be exercised without faith , ( as it really is the case in all inference , ) that continual dependence ... Reason , or in the in- ferences of Reason , and not of faith in God . Nor must our avoiding to enter into any of the ...
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... Reason to Revelation , or rather after increasing the confusion , by terming Reason , na- tural revelation , and Revelation , natural reason , en- larged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ; Locke proceeds with the same ...
... Reason to Revelation , or rather after increasing the confusion , by terming Reason , na- tural revelation , and Revelation , natural reason , en- larged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ; Locke proceeds with the same ...
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... Reason would be without dignity and entirely useless . The exercise of the Will supposes a judgment of some kind . If man will act , he must con- ceive some notion of Truth in order to act accordingly , for the real distinction between ...
... Reason would be without dignity and entirely useless . The exercise of the Will supposes a judgment of some kind . If man will act , he must con- ceive some notion of Truth in order to act accordingly , for the real distinction between ...
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... Reason is admitted as umpire , the waters will be found rippling and troubled . To inquire , to examine , to deliberate , is to raise up doubts in order to dispose of them . This the Greeks termed sceptomai . Those who refused to admit ...
... Reason is admitted as umpire , the waters will be found rippling and troubled . To inquire , to examine , to deliberate , is to raise up doubts in order to dispose of them . This the Greeks termed sceptomai . Those who refused to admit ...
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Page 114 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 153 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...
Page 57 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...
Page 250 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Page 213 - In vain do you pretend to have learned the nature of bodies from your past experience. Their secret nature, and consequently all their effects and influence, may change, without any change in their sensible qualities. This happens sometimes, and with regard to some objects : Why may it not happen always, and with regard to all objects ? What logic, what process of argument secures you against this supposition ? My practice, you say, refutes my doubts.
Page 207 - In a word, then, every effect is a distinct event from its cause. It could not, therefore, be discovered in the cause, and the first invention or conception of it, a priori, must be entirely arbitrary. And even after it is suggested, the conjunction of it with the cause must appear equally arbitrary, since there are always many other effects which, to reason, must seem fully as consistent and natural. In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event or infer any cause or effect...
Page 154 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 166 - Now, in every step reason makes in demonstrative knowledge, there is an intuitive knowledge of that agreement or disagreement it seeks with the next intermediate idea, which it uses as a proof: for if it were not so, that yet would need a proof; since without the perception of such agreement or disagreement there is no knowledge produced. If it be perceived by itself, it is intuitive knowledge: if it cannot be perceived by itself, there is need of some intervening idea, as a common measure, to show...
Page 6 - Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Page 220 - It may set them, in a manner, before our eyes, in their true colours, just as they might have existed. But as it is impossible that this faculty of imagination can ever, of itself, reach belief, it is evident that belief consists not in the peculiar nature or order of ideas, but in the manner of their conception, and in their feeling to the mind.