 Positive philosophy maintains that, within the existing order of the Universe, or rather of the part of it known to us, the direct determining cause of every phenomenon is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe...  The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte - Page 16by John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1865 - 432 pages
...every phaenomenon is " not supernatural but natural. It is compa" tible with this to believe that the universe " was created and even that it is continu"ously...provided • 'we admit that the intelligent Governor ad" heres to fixed laws, which are only modified " or counteracted by other laws of the same " dispensation,... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1866 - 334 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created and even that it is continuously...either capriciously or providentially departed from." This is as explicit a statement as is to be found in Mr. Mill's writings of his notion of the amount... | |
 | 1867 - 416 pages
...of every phenomena is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe, that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously...either capriciously or providentially departed from." * Here then we a candid and explicit statement that Positivism and the first article of Theology may... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy, British - 1867 - 292 pages
...every phenomenon is " not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with " this to believe that the universe was created and even " that it is continuously...either capriciously or providentially departed from." This is as explicit a statement as is to be found in Mr. Mill's writings of his notion of the amount... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy, English - 1867 - 298 pages
...every phenomenon is " not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with " this to believe that the universe was created and even " that it is continuously...either capriciously or providentially departed from." This is as explicit a statement as is to be found in Mr. Mill's writings of his notion of the amount... | |
 | 1867 - 624 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously governed by an Intelligence, provided that we admit that the intelligent Governor adheres to fixed laws, which are only modified or counteracted... | |
 | 1868 - 612 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously...counteracted by other laws of the same dispensation.' * No doubt there is nothing inconsistent in the Positive mode of thought with these twofold beliefs.... | |
 | English literature - 1868 - 606 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously...Intelligence, provided we admit that the Intelligent Governor adkeref to fixed laws, which are only modified or counteracted by other laws of the same dispensation.'*... | |
 | Charles Joseph Parker - Religion and science - 1870 - 204 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural, but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously...never either capriciously or providentially departed from.h Whoever regards all events as parts of a constant order, each one being the invariable consequent... | |
 | James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - 268 pages
...of every phenomenon is not supernatural, but natural. It is compatible with this to believe that the universe was created, and even that it is continuously...either capriciously or providentially, departed from." — MILL. " A little philosophy," says Bacon, " inclineth men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy... | |
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