Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford LecturesT. & T. Clark, 1890 - 407 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 56
... experience , " he says elsewhere in the same work ( i . 1. 3 ) , " that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ...
... experience , " he says elsewhere in the same work ( i . 1. 3 ) , " that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ...
الصفحة 77
... experience of Anaxagoras was precisely that of Kant . The starry heaven above him was one of the only two things that filled his soul with ever new and increasing wonder and veneration the more and the oftener he reflected . " In effect ...
... experience of Anaxagoras was precisely that of Kant . The starry heaven above him was one of the only two things that filled his soul with ever new and increasing wonder and veneration the more and the oftener he reflected . " In effect ...
الصفحة 120
... experience to Carlyle . As his early letters tell us , the perusal of Gibbon had won him over to the side of heresy ; and any further progression in the same direc- tion could only exhibit to him Christianity - in Hume , Voltaire , and ...
... experience to Carlyle . As his early letters tell us , the perusal of Gibbon had won him over to the side of heresy ; and any further progression in the same direc- tion could only exhibit to him Christianity - in Hume , Voltaire , and ...
الصفحة 122
... experience , was to be the only truth . All was to be learned and won from the examination of the objects of the external senses . And so , while the outer flourished , the inner perished . The inner was only superstition , prejudice ...
... experience , was to be the only truth . All was to be learned and won from the examination of the objects of the external senses . And so , while the outer flourished , the inner perished . The inner was only superstition , prejudice ...
الصفحة 141
... experience did not lead him to have any very high opinion of mankind as a whole . In his Rhetoric ( ii . 5. 7 ) , he speaks of it as a position of fear to be within the power of another , men being mostly bad , timid for themselves ...
... experience did not lead him to have any very high opinion of mankind as a whole . In his Rhetoric ( ii . 5. 7 ) , he speaks of it as a position of fear to be within the power of another , men being mostly bad , timid for themselves ...
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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.