An Original Essay on the Immateriality & Immortality of the Human Soul, Founded Solely on Physical and Rational PrinciplesA. Neal, bookseller, 1810 - 210 páginas |
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... absurdities will immedi- ately follow : -If consciousness and perception be admitted to exist abstracted from all inherence in a substance , ( which existence is supposed under the present consideration ) they must include within ...
... absurdities will immedi- ately follow : -If consciousness and perception be admitted to exist abstracted from all inherence in a substance , ( which existence is supposed under the present consideration ) they must include within ...
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... absurdity or a contradiction ; and in no case which can be given , can any such relation be made out , as is necessary to establish that connexion between consciousness and matter , which must ever subsist between an effect and its ...
... absurdity or a contradiction ; and in no case which can be given , can any such relation be made out , as is necessary to establish that connexion between consciousness and matter , which must ever subsist between an effect and its ...
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... absurdity of the supposition . Let us suppose for instance , the judgment to exist alone ; it then follows , that we must judge without perceiving . And to suppose that the mind can judge without perceiving , is to suppose it to decide ...
... absurdity of the supposition . Let us suppose for instance , the judgment to exist alone ; it then follows , that we must judge without perceiving . And to suppose that the mind can judge without perceiving , is to suppose it to decide ...
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... absurdity . * * Whether the mind of man be necessarily active , without any intermission , is a question of fact which is foreign to my present argument . If the abstract possibility can be made out , that consciousness may exist ...
... absurdity . * * Whether the mind of man be necessarily active , without any intermission , is a question of fact which is foreign to my present argument . If the abstract possibility can be made out , that consciousness may exist ...
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... absurdities to suppose , that God has made its exist- ence to depend upon the continual activity of its own powers , or our uninterrupted perception of them ; - and unless it can be proved , that the real essence of spirit excludes from ...
... absurdities to suppose , that God has made its exist- ence to depend upon the continual activity of its own powers , or our uninterrupted perception of them ; - and unless it can be proved , that the real essence of spirit excludes from ...
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An Original Essay on the Immateriality & Immortality of the Human Soul ... Samuel Drew Vista de fragmentos - 1811 |
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Página 45 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no;* it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think...
Página 107 - An exclusion of all parts is necessary to the existence of an immaterial substance ; and to suppose a being to be dissolved, from the very nature of whose existence a capacity of dissolution is necessarily excluded, is a flat contradiction ; — it is supposing a being to be capable, and yet incapable, of dissolution at the same time. Whatever has parts, cannot be immaterial ; and what has no parts can never lose them. To suppose an immaterial substance to have parts, destroys its immateriality ;...
Página 122 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 104 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die : And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed its own body.
Página vi - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Página 106 - Rich in expedients for inquietude, Is prone to paint it dreadful. Who can take Death's portrait true; the tyrant never sat. Our sketch all random strokes; conjecture all; Close shuts the grave, nor tells one single tale.
Página 8 - Volume, that 1 have therefore drawn over the book of God the most distant shade of disrespect. The mind that can harbour such an idea, must form but a very partial conception of my undertaking. The Bible I consider as the great repository of sacred knowledge ; and moral philosophy can be no » longer right, than while it acts in concert with revelation. I consider moral truth, as an elevated mountain...