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... clear thinking . Tyndall's speculations as to matter are simply an extension of the hypothesis of evolution , according to the scientific doctrine of uniformity , from the known to the unknown . Back to a primordial germ Darwin is ...
... clear thinking . Tyndall's speculations as to matter are simply an extension of the hypothesis of evolution , according to the scientific doctrine of uniformity , from the known to the unknown . Back to a primordial germ Darwin is ...
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... clear , that Tyndall can discern in it , at that distance , " the promise and potency of every form and quality of life " ? How is it that the relations of matter and mind are un- thinkable as they exist in the brain , and thinkable as ...
... clear , that Tyndall can discern in it , at that distance , " the promise and potency of every form and quality of life " ? How is it that the relations of matter and mind are un- thinkable as they exist in the brain , and thinkable as ...
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... clear . " But his definition , contemplated with all patience and candor , is clear in neither its affirmations nor its negations ; while the established is capable of a coherent presentation in both these respects . So far , indeed ...
... clear . " But his definition , contemplated with all patience and candor , is clear in neither its affirmations nor its negations ; while the established is capable of a coherent presentation in both these respects . So far , indeed ...
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... clear idea of what he means by causation . Almost while Tyndall was speaking before the British Association at Belfast on atoms , M. Wurtz , president of the French Associa- tion , was discussing before that body the same theme , and ...
... clear idea of what he means by causation . Almost while Tyndall was speaking before the British Association at Belfast on atoms , M. Wurtz , president of the French Associa- tion , was discussing before that body the same theme , and ...
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... clear ideas and spirit- ual purposes conjoined are the only deadly intellectual weapons . When a haughty attitude is assumed by physical science in the name of the scientific method , all that religious science has to do is to show that ...
... clear ideas and spirit- ual purposes conjoined are the only deadly intellectual weapons . When a haughty attitude is assumed by physical science in the name of the scientific method , all that religious science has to do is to show that ...
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Page 288 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 22 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 129 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 315 - And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And, last of all, thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss ; And joy shall overtake us as a flood...
Page 285 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 272 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
Page 210 - MODERN PHYSICAL FATALISM, AND THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. Including an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's "First Principles.
Page 21 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 35 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.