The Emancipation of Faith, Volumen1D. Appleton and Company, 1858 |
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absolute according action admitted Almighty appear Aristotle attempt Auguste Comte Baconian method belief Cartesian Causation certitude common sense conceived conception conclusions consciousness considered constitutes denies Descartes distinct divine Faith doctrine error evidence experience expressed external fact faculty feeling Fichte Fideism finite free inquiry ground Hegel Hobbes human mind Hume idea individual inductive philosophy inference Infinite inquiry instinctive Intelligence intuitive intuitive knowledge judgment Kant knowledge laws Leibnitz light Locke Lord Bacon maintains Malebranche matter means mental merely metaphysical Monads moral mysterious natural Theology nature non-Ego notion object opinion organic Pantheism peculiar perceived perception phenomena phenomenal world philosophy positive possess posteriori principle priori proceeds proof prove pure qualities rational real existence reality Reason Reid relation Religion respecting Revelation rience scepticism Schedel Schelling sensation sensible Spinoza substance Supreme tenets term things thinker Thought tion truth unity universal whilst
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Página 112 - 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...
Página 55 - 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 else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Página 149 - 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...
Página 213 - ... will discover itself upon a nearer approach. This belief is the necessary result of placing the mind in such circumstances. It is an operation of the soul, when we are so situated, as unavoidable as to feel the passion of love, when we receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet with injuries. All these operations are a species of natural instincts, which no reasoning or process of the thought and understanding is able either to produce or to prevent.
Página 244 - 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.
Página 207 - 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.
Página 150 - 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...
Página 4 - 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...
Página 214 - 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.
Página 210 - Though we should conclude, for instance, as in the foregoing section that, in all reasonings from experience, there is a step taken by the mind which is not supported by any argument or process of the understanding...