The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of TheismCharles Scribner's sons, 1883 - 564 pages |
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absolute Reason absurd according action æsthetic æther affirms agnosticism antinomies apprehended attained beauty belief cause Christianity conception consciousness constitution contradiction contrary Descartes distinct distinguished doctrine emotions error essential eternal ethics evil experience expressed fact faculties feeling finite Geschichte des Materialismus gives human idea impossible individual induction inference intellectual intelligence intuitive knowledge J. G. Fichte J. S. Mill Kant law of love laws of thought ledge logical mind modes of existence nature necessary necessary inference notion noumenon observation outward particular realities perceptive intuition perfection person phenomena philosophy physical science possible presentative intuition primitive knowledge principles of reason Prof qualities rational intuition reality of knowledge recognizes regulative relation relativity of knowledge religious reveals says scientific self-evident sense sense-perception skepticism spirit substance theism theology theory things tion transcendental Ego true truths and laws truths of reason unity universal principles unknowable words worth
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Page 190 - For as this ought or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation...
Page 238 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 95 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 95 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 326 - ... if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy ; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge ; but (having regard to God) no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 309 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 340 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 222 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side...
Page 380 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 388 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.