Religion as Affected by Modern Materialism: An Address Delivered in Manchester New College, London, at the Opening of Its 89th Session on Tuesday Oct. 6th 1874William & Norgate, 1878 - Počet stran: 35 |
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Strana 29 - But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process of reasoning, from the one to the other.
Strana 56 - It is our own immediate consciousness of effort, when we exert force to put matter in motion, or to oppose and neutralize force, which gives us this internal conviction of power and causation, so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we...
Strana 6 - That the upper zones of human affection, above the clouds of self and passion, take us into the sphere of a Divine communion.
Strana 25 - ... the emotions ; and it is when he is most purely subjective that he rejects subjectivity. He pays a just and liberal tribute to the character of John Stuart Mill. But in the light of Mill's philosophy, benevolence, honour, purity, having " shrunk into mere unaccredited subjective susceptibilities, have lost all support from Omniscient approval, and all presumable accordance with the reality of things.
Strana 56 - Not the shadow of any insight into the nature of the process. But, strangely enough, our inherent quest of causes is in a manner laid to rest by the involuntary image tracing itself before our inner eye, of a hand which gently draws the inert matter to it, or of invisible tentacles, with which the particles clasp together, try to seize each other, and at last twine together into a...
Strana 14 - It is easy travelling through the stages of such an hypothesis ; you deposit at your bank a. round sum ere you start, and, drawing on it piecemeal at every pause, complete your grand tour without a debt.
Strana 59 - For my part, I cannot hesitate. Shall I be deterred by the reproach of "anthropomorphism"? If I am to see a ruling Power in the world, is it folly to prefer a man-like to a brute-like power, a seeing to a blind ? The similitude to man means no more and goes no further than the supremacy of intellectual insight and moral ends over every inferior alternative: and how it can be contemptible and childish to derive everything...
Strana 23 - and the human " soul," any of their supposed modern equivalents when the " metaphysics " are discharged, and then estimate the gain or loss. Will then the Benedicite swell with the same tones of joy, when it has to sing, " Bless the Eternal Law, all ye its works ; bless the Eternal Law, O my synthesis of organs " ? Will the contrition which now cries, " Blot out my transgressions," " Cast me not away," " A broken heart Thou dost not despise...
Strana 12 - ... a higher conception of excellence : it is as a living agent, as a personal embodiment, of righteousness, that he wields authority over my conscience. Take away this element, tear the picture out of the volume of true history and cast it to the transient winds of imagination, and all is immediately changed. The image remaining the same, I may still admire ; but no longer in grave silence, — rather with outspoken praise : of my compunction I am relieved : the strength of resolution is relaxed...
Strana 6 - ... rashly — it might be said petulantly — kicks away the only philosophic foundation on which it is possible for him to build his religion. He twits incidentally the modern scientific interpretation of nature because of its want of cheerfulness. ' Let the new future,' he says, ' preach its own gospel, and devise, if it can, the means of making the tidings glad.