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Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. TO The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES 402793 PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 Robert Flint. TO The Memory of my Mother I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN SORROWFUL AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF HER LOVE AND VIRTUES 402793 PREFATORY NOTE . THE present volume is closely connected with.
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... connected with the work entitled ' Theism , ' which was published in 1877. The two works may be regarded as two parts of a system of Natural Theology which is still very far from complete . The chief omission in the present volume ...
... connected with the work entitled ' Theism , ' which was published in 1877. The two works may be regarded as two parts of a system of Natural Theology which is still very far from complete . The chief omission in the present volume ...
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... connected with it , have been left unchanged . They may be compared with the very elaborate examination of Sir John Lubbock's views on the atheism of savage peoples in G. Roskoff's ' Religionswesen der Rohesten Naturvölker , ' a work ...
... connected with it , have been left unchanged . They may be compared with the very elaborate examination of Sir John Lubbock's views on the atheism of savage peoples in G. Roskoff's ' Religionswesen der Rohesten Naturvölker , ' a work ...
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... associated - in which there is at once an admirable regularity and an admirable diversity in which all things work together . What explanation does atheism give of this world ? There is an atheism which does not pretend to give any ...
... associated - in which there is at once an admirable regularity and an admirable diversity in which all things work together . What explanation does atheism give of this world ? There is an atheism which does not pretend to give any ...
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... related to religion as the alternating feverish heat and shivering cold of bodily disease are related to the equable temperature of health . The one gives rise to the other ; the one easily passes into the other . Each is to a large ...
... related to religion as the alternating feverish heat and shivering cold of bodily disease are related to the equable temperature of health . The one gives rise to the other ; the one easily passes into the other . Each is to a large ...
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¹ See Appendix absolute unity absolutely infinite admit affirms answer argument assertion atheism atoms attributes believe Bradlaugh Brahma Buddha Buddhism called cause Christianity Comte conceived consciousness definite deism Deity Democritus deny distinct Divine doctrine ence Epicurean Epicurus essentially eternal evil existence explain facts finite force Hartmann Hegel Holyoake human mind idea ignorance illusion implies infinite intellect intelligence J. S. Mill kind knowledge Lepchas living logically Lucretius maintained materialism materialistic matter mental merely monism moral nature necessarily never Nirvana notion object origin pantheism person pessimism phenomena philosophy physical science polytheism positivism positivist present principles proved reality reason regard religion religious represented scepticism Schopenhauer scientific secularism secularist self-existent sensation sense Sir John Lubbock soul Spinoza spirit substance supposed supreme theistic theology theory things thought tion tribes true truth uncon universe Vedanta whole words worship