The Emancipation of Faith, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1858 |
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... denying her all capacity of Judg- ment in a question of that nature . Such a proceeding has been compared by Aristotle and Locke , and , we believe , justly , to the demand of sight from a man known to be blind . Therefore , to require ...
... denying her all capacity of Judg- ment in a question of that nature . Such a proceeding has been compared by Aristotle and Locke , and , we believe , justly , to the demand of sight from a man known to be blind . Therefore , to require ...
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... denying the existence of matter , that is , of solidity , impenetrability , and extended figure , but in correcting the popular notion of it ; and in con- tending that it has no essence independently of mental perception ; that ...
... denying the existence of matter , that is , of solidity , impenetrability , and extended figure , but in correcting the popular notion of it ; and in con- tending that it has no essence independently of mental perception ; that ...
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... denies that it is the sense of sight that gives us the assurance that the same piece of wax we may see is the same we saw before . The common way of speaking he maintains to be incor- rect when it is said , " that we see it is the same ...
... denies that it is the sense of sight that gives us the assurance that the same piece of wax we may see is the same we saw before . The common way of speaking he maintains to be incor- rect when it is said , " that we see it is the same ...
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... denies that the cause assigned should be a cause already known , which would be equivalent to saying that we could never become acquainted with any new cause . Speaking of the discoveries of Kepler and Copernicus , Mr. Whewell remarks ...
... denies that the cause assigned should be a cause already known , which would be equivalent to saying that we could never become acquainted with any new cause . Speaking of the discoveries of Kepler and Copernicus , Mr. Whewell remarks ...
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... denying the use of hypothesis in the attainment of knowledge ; although well aware how very requisite it was to clothe his thoughts in terms the least susceptible of mistake . " For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking , by the ...
... denying the use of hypothesis in the attainment of knowledge ; although well aware how very requisite it was to clothe his thoughts in terms the least susceptible of mistake . " For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking , by the ...
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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.