An Original Essay on the Immateriality & Immortality of the Human Soul, Founded Solely on Physical and Rational PrinciplesA. Neal, bookseller, 1810 - 210 Seiten |
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... incapable of communi- cating themselves through the medium of sensation like matter , they are more remote from common ap- prehension . Distance in nature , is , however , no more a proof of the nonexistence of spirit , than dis- tance ...
... incapable of communi- cating themselves through the medium of sensation like matter , they are more remote from common ap- prehension . Distance in nature , is , however , no more a proof of the nonexistence of spirit , than dis- tance ...
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... incapable of producing , and which therefore can flow from no other than a spiritual substance . It is certain , from what has been already said , that wherever consciousness and perception are found to exist , they plainly demonstrate ...
... incapable of producing , and which therefore can flow from no other than a spiritual substance . It is certain , from what has been already said , that wherever consciousness and perception are found to exist , they plainly demonstrate ...
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... incapable at the same time : the rational result therefore is , -that matter cannot think . Nor can we suppose , that the refinement or sub- tilty of any substance , can give to itself a quality which it does not naturally possess ...
... incapable at the same time : the rational result therefore is , -that matter cannot think . Nor can we suppose , that the refinement or sub- tilty of any substance , can give to itself a quality which it does not naturally possess ...
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... incapable of doing , which is a contradiction . But if consciousness exist virtually in the cause , as it does formally in the effect , the divisibility of mat- ter must be done away . For if we annex the idea of divisibility , to any ...
... incapable of doing , which is a contradiction . But if consciousness exist virtually in the cause , as it does formally in the effect , the divisibility of mat- ter must be done away . For if we annex the idea of divisibility , to any ...
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... incapable of thinking in any state , must ( if it be the same ) be necessarily incapable in every state . For if no new powers be added to any being , its modification can only affect the arrangement of its component parts , while the ...
... incapable of thinking in any state , must ( if it be the same ) be necessarily incapable in every state . For if no new powers be added to any being , its modification can only affect the arrangement of its component parts , while the ...
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absence of power absurdity action active energy admitted to exist adventitious animal annihilation atom body cause certainty cluded comprehend conceive contradiction in terms contradiction to suppose corruption creation death denominated depend destitute destroy discernment distinct divine power divisibility effect ence entity essence essential property eternity evidence exist abstracted existed previous finite follow-that hilation human soul idea identity immaterial principle immaterial substance impossible impulses incapable includes independent infinite divisibility infinite power inhere instinct istence judgment knowledge matéri material matter and spirit mind modification neces necessarily be immortal necessary negation nexion nihilation nonentity object Omnipotence operations particles physical nature portion of matter pose positive existence possess prescience present previous existence priva privation produce proselited pure relation result from matter sciousness sence sensation simple soul's space stamen stance subduction suppo supports the soul suppose the soul supposition tence thing tion totally ture uncon union whence
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Seite 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...
Seite 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 ;...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...