Science, Philosophy and Religion: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonG.P. Putnam & sons, 1871 - 311 páginas |
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Página 16 - For, after all, what do we know of this terrible " matter," except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness ? And what do we know of that
Página 129 - So vast in its demands, unless impelled To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force, And under pressure of some conscious cause? The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives.
Página 17 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Página 284 - The elements and roots of religion were there as far back as we can trace the history of man ; and the history of religion, like the history of language, shows us throughout a succession of new combinations of the same radical elements.
Página 107 - Suppose that the total object of consciousness in perception is = 12; and suppose that the external reality contributes 6, the material sense 3, and the mind 3 ; — this may enable you to form some rude conjecture of the nature of the object of perception.
Página 109 - ... objects; or, on the other, that these distant objects are those really represented in the mind. Nothing can be more absurd: we perceive, through no sense, aught external but what is in immediate relation and in immediate contact with its organ ; and that is true which Democritus of old asserted, that all our senses are only modifications of touch. Through the eye, we perceive nothing but the rays of light in relation to, and in contact with, the retina; what we add to this perception must not...
Página 284 - ... the world, a distinction between good and evil, and a hope of a better life, these are some of the radical elements of all religions. Though sometimes hidden, they rise again and again to the surface. Though frequently distorted, they tend again and again to their perfect form. Unless they had formed part of the original dowry of the human soul, religion itself would have remained an impossibility, the tongues of angels would have been to human ears but as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Página 109 - But in the second place, what is meant by the external object perceived ? Nothing can be conceived more ridiculous than the opinion of philosophers in regard to this. For example, it has been curiously held — and Reid is no exception — that, in looking at the sun, moon, or any other object of sight, we are, on the one doctrine, actually conscious of these distant objects ; or, on the other, that these distant objects are those really represented in the mind. Nothing can be more absurd : we perceive,...
Página 129 - He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintained, Who sleeps not, is not weary; in whose sight Slow-circling ages are as transient days; Whose work is without labour, whose designs No flaw deforms, no difficulty thwarts, And whose beneficence no charge exhausts.
Página 205 - Motives influence to action, they must co-operate in producing a certain effect upon the agent; and the determination to act, and to act in a certain manner, is that effect. They are thus, on Reid's own view, in this relation, causes, and efficient causes.