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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... proved , that " there is an IMMATERIAL PRINCIPLE in man . " In the second part , therefore , his inquiry is ; Can this IMMATERIAL PRINCIPLE possibly EXPIRE ? " [ After giving a pretty copious Extract from the Work , the Reviewers ...
... proved , that " there is an IMMATERIAL PRINCIPLE in man . " In the second part , therefore , his inquiry is ; Can this IMMATERIAL PRINCIPLE possibly EXPIRE ? " [ After giving a pretty copious Extract from the Work , the Reviewers ...
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... proved the soul to be immor- tal , were forgotten in the full conviction of its being true . An Atheist , like a solitary meteor , might have wandered through a century , and excited the mixed emotions of astonishment and contempt . The ...
... proved the soul to be immor- tal , were forgotten in the full conviction of its being true . An Atheist , like a solitary meteor , might have wandered through a century , and excited the mixed emotions of astonishment and contempt . The ...
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... prove that they are essential to its nature , and therefore neces- sary to its existence . For if any given portion of matter , though never so minute , can be conceived to exist , ( though it have undergone every modifi- cation of ...
... prove that they are essential to its nature , and therefore neces- sary to its existence . For if any given portion of matter , though never so minute , can be conceived to exist , ( though it have undergone every modifi- cation of ...
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... prove both the real existence and nature of that source , as if it had been an object of animal sensation . That matter does exist , has been already admit- ted and defined ; and , that spiritual substances exist also , is a truth no ...
... prove both the real existence and nature of that source , as if it had been an object of animal sensation . That matter does exist , has been already admit- ted and defined ; and , that spiritual substances exist also , is a truth no ...
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... proved , that consciousness and perception_do exist , it necessarily follows that there must be some primary principle from whence they flow , some substance in which they inhere , and without which they could have no relative existence ...
... proved , that consciousness and perception_do exist , it necessarily follows that there must be some primary principle from whence they flow , some substance in which they inhere , and without which they could have no relative existence ...
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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...