Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford LecturesT. & T. Clark, 1890 - 407 من الصفحات |
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... tion . You may illustrate this by a reference to the Shorter Catechism . If you get its specifications by heart and , making them your own only so , straightway act upon them , then that is an illustration of what is positive . To dwell ...
... tion . You may illustrate this by a reference to the Shorter Catechism . If you get its specifications by heart and , making them your own only so , straightway act upon them , then that is an illustration of what is positive . To dwell ...
الصفحة 22
... tion that comes pretty well at once to the surface here , suggests , as in some degree synonymous with itself , such words as description , narrative , account , report , rationale , theory , etc. Geology is a description , narrative ...
... tion that comes pretty well at once to the surface here , suggests , as in some degree synonymous with itself , such words as description , narrative , account , report , rationale , theory , etc. Geology is a description , narrative ...
الصفحة 23
... tion . We have only to look to what treatises have been actually written on the subject to perceive that the attempt in all of them is to demonstrate the existence and attributes of the Deity by reason alone , in applica- tion to nature ...
... tion . We have only to look to what treatises have been actually written on the subject to perceive that the attempt in all of them is to demonstrate the existence and attributes of the Deity by reason alone , in applica- tion to nature ...
الصفحة 25
... tion , and here is the critical pause , these last , then , represent Natural Theology , and , as a whole , exhibit it --- is it their contents that shall constitute the burden of these lectures , and be reproduced now ? It is Natural ...
... tion , and here is the critical pause , these last , then , represent Natural Theology , and , as a whole , exhibit it --- is it their contents that shall constitute the burden of these lectures , and be reproduced now ? It is Natural ...
الصفحة 29
... will to follow in the same direction . This , of course , cannot be without some natural exaggera- tion ; for , in the end , I by no means deny a certain affinity of the religions , the one to the other ,. run . race .
... will to follow in the same direction . This , of course , cannot be without some natural exaggera- tion ; for , in the end , I by no means deny a certain affinity of the religions , the one to the other ,. run . race .
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الصفحة 56 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
الصفحة 204 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
الصفحة 56 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
الصفحة 54 - As for the possibility, they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
الصفحة 56 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but...
الصفحة 82 - Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
الصفحة 385 - Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
الصفحة 375 - I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.
الصفحة 149 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth Is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of It: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
الصفحة 155 - I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.