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... remains almost untouched : two verbal alterations only , on pp . 43 and 99 , having been made to prevent misconceptions . Part II . , however , is wholly trans- formed . Its first chapter , on " Laws in General , " is omitted , with a ...
... remains almost untouched : two verbal alterations only , on pp . 43 and 99 , having been made to prevent misconceptions . Part II . , however , is wholly trans- formed . Its first chapter , on " Laws in General , " is omitted , with a ...
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... remains after the discordant constituents have been elimi- nated ; and to find for this remaining constituent that ab- stract expression which holds true throughout its divergent modifications . § 3. A candid acceptance of this general ...
... remains after the discordant constituents have been elimi- nated ; and to find for this remaining constituent that ab- stract expression which holds true throughout its divergent modifications . § 3. A candid acceptance of this general ...
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... remains as complete as ever . Really to conceive self - creation , is to conceive poten- tial existence passing into actual existence by some inherent necessity ; which we cannot do . We cannot form any idea of a potential existence of ...
... remains as complete as ever . Really to conceive self - creation , is to conceive poten- tial existence passing into actual existence by some inherent necessity ; which we cannot do . We cannot form any idea of a potential existence of ...
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... remains to be examined the commonly - received or theistic hypothesis - creation by external agency . Alike in the rudest creeds and in the cosmogony long current among ourselves , it is assumed that the genesis of the Heavens and the ...
... remains to be examined the commonly - received or theistic hypothesis - creation by external agency . Alike in the rudest creeds and in the cosmogony long current among ourselves , it is assumed that the genesis of the Heavens and the ...
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... remains only the supposition that the two states are equal , and the act of creation one of complete indifference . But this supposition annihilates the unity of the absolute , or it annihilates itself . If the act of creation is real ...
... remains only the supposition that the two states are equal , and the act of creation one of complete indifference . But this supposition annihilates the unity of the absolute , or it annihilates itself . If the act of creation is real ...
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Strona 584 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Strona 126 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Strona 94 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily coextensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.* 2.
Strona 509 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Strona 584 - Evolution, then, under its primary aspect, is a change from a less coherent form to a more coherent form, consequent on the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Strona 558 - Cosmos; we see at once that there are not several kinds of Evolution having certain traits in common, but one Evolution going on everywhere after the same manner.
Strona 409 - In other words, the phenomena of Evolution have to be deduced from the Persistence of Force. As before said, ' to this an ultimate analysis brings us down, and on this a rational synthesis must build up.
Strona 116 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
Strona 41 - We attempt to escape from this apparent contradiction, by introducing the idea of succession in time. The absolute exists first by itself, and afterwards becomes a cause. But here we are checked by the third conception, that of the infinite. How can the infinite become that which it was not from the first 1 If causation is a possible mode of existence, that which exists without causing is not infinite ; that which becomes a cause has passed beyond its former limits.
Strona 110 - Thus the consciousness of an Inscrutable Power manifested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer; and must eventually be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a Power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first been progressing.