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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MODERN MATERIALISM: ITS ATTITUDE TOWARDS THEOLOGY. At the beginning of October, 1874, it was my duty, as Principal of a Theological College, to open a new session with an Address, which was afterwards published under the title, Keligion as affected by Modern Materialism. It raises the question Avhether the free and scientific methods of study insisted on in the College involved results at variance with its theological design, It states accordingly three assumptions hitherto implied in that design: That the universe which includes us and folds us round is the life-dwelling of an Eternal Mind; that the world of our abode is the scene of a Moral Government incipient but not yet complete; and that the upper zones of human affection, above the clouds of self and passion, take us into the sphere of a Divine Communion. With regard to these assumptions the thesis is maintained that they are beyond the contradiction, because not within the logical range, of the natural sciences. In support of this thesis the mischiefs are shown, both to science and to theology, of confusing their boundaries, and treating the discovery of Law as the negation of God; and the separating line is drawn, that in their intellectual dealings with phenomena, science inves- 4 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT. tigates the how and theology the whence. Tempted on by two of its indispensable conceptions, matter and/orce, science, overstepping this boundary, has of late affected to know not only the order but the origin of things; in the / one case starting them frojnjtto;jjistheirsgurcgin the other from mechanical energy. I try to show that neither datum will work out its result except by the aid of logical illusions. You will get out of your atoms by evolution, exactly so much and no more as you have put...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217024624 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217024629 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 54 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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