The Emancipation of Faith, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1858 |
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... sceptics . Those who aimed at mere ver- bal dispute , and attempted by a captious disposition of their phrases to obtain belief , were termed sophists . Both classes still exist . There is no better argument against the first than the ...
... sceptics . Those who aimed at mere ver- bal dispute , and attempted by a captious disposition of their phrases to obtain belief , were termed sophists . Both classes still exist . There is no better argument against the first than the ...
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... sceptical nature of science , distinguish- ed by a desire to see , to feel , to grasp , and requiring , if not tangible ... scepticism diminished when the weakness of human nature , and the habitual erroneous bent of common opinion , are ...
... sceptical nature of science , distinguish- ed by a desire to see , to feel , to grasp , and requiring , if not tangible ... scepticism diminished when the weakness of human nature , and the habitual erroneous bent of common opinion , are ...
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... scepticism which arose became scarcely less Pyrrhonian than that of ancient philosophy . It has been said of Bayle and Hume , the two main columns of modern scepticism , that the first maintains that we have not reached truth , and the ...
... scepticism which arose became scarcely less Pyrrhonian than that of ancient philosophy . It has been said of Bayle and Hume , the two main columns of modern scepticism , that the first maintains that we have not reached truth , and the ...
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... scepticism of Bayle and Hume , is of more value in our eyes as an admirable proof of the weak- ness of any religion merely founded by man , than it is hurtful to the God revealed . If the Almighty be re- vealed then the arrows of scepticism ...
... scepticism of Bayle and Hume , is of more value in our eyes as an admirable proof of the weak- ness of any religion merely founded by man , than it is hurtful to the God revealed . If the Almighty be re- vealed then the arrows of scepticism ...
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... scepticism as a doctrine , even when it was admitted as the surest method , if not the only one , which could lead to any issue of positive value . Scepticism as a doctrine professes to believe in nothing , not even in the belief of its ...
... scepticism as a doctrine , even when it was admitted as the surest method , if not the only one , which could lead to any issue of positive value . Scepticism as a doctrine professes to believe in nothing , not even in the belief of its ...
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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.