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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... simple action of the mind , can arise from principle which is necessarily extended and diffused ; this action must derive its being , from an energy which cannot equally contribute to its existence . But if it be the latter , then it ...
... simple action of the mind , can arise from principle which is necessarily extended and diffused ; this action must derive its being , from an energy which cannot equally contribute to its existence . But if it be the latter , then it ...
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... simple state ; and am contending that ac- tive consciousness cannot be an essential property of its nature . If the activity of consciousness be an essen- tial property of matter , a consciousness of matter must have been coeval with ...
... simple state ; and am contending that ac- tive consciousness cannot be an essential property of its nature . If the activity of consciousness be an essen- tial property of matter , a consciousness of matter must have been coeval with ...
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... simple perception of the mind , ( which each faculty of the soul must be ) is to annihilate the existence of that faculty , and we shall be obliged , in this case , to ad- mit the division of what can then have no real or nominal ...
... simple perception of the mind , ( which each faculty of the soul must be ) is to annihilate the existence of that faculty , and we shall be obliged , in this case , to ad- mit the division of what can then have no real or nominal ...
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... simple action of the mind , and refuted by itself ; the second implies two distinct actions , which may exist together , or without any recipro- cal dependance . Our being conscious of any re- mote object , is a simple action of the ...
... simple action of the mind , and refuted by itself ; the second implies two distinct actions , which may exist together , or without any recipro- cal dependance . Our being conscious of any re- mote object , is a simple action of the ...
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... soul , in which these affections reside , be a simple , unex- tended atom , the soul itself must be uniform and invariably the same ; for that atom can admit of no Η variety which is devoid of all extension , and total- 75.
... soul , in which these affections reside , be a simple , unex- tended atom , the soul itself must be uniform and invariably the same ; for that atom can admit of no Η variety which is devoid of all extension , and total- 75.
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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...