Physical Theory of Another Life

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D. Appleton, 1836 - 321 páginas
 

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Página 233 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Página 233 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Página 233 - Heaven and earth shall pass away : but my word shall not pass away, xxi.
Página 233 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 225 - Nor in considering questions of this sort ought we to listen for a moment to those frequent, but impertinent questions, that are brought forward with the view of superseding the inquiry ; — such for example, as these — What good end is answered by the alleged extra natural occurrences 1 — or, Is it worthy of the Supreme Wisdom to permit them ? and so forth.
Página 225 - Hume's oft-repeated sophism, that no testimony can establish an alleged fact which is at variance with common experience; for it must not be denied that some few instances of the sort alluded to rest upon testimony, in itself, thoroughly unimpeachable; nor is the import of the evidence in these cases at all touched by the now well-understood doctrine concerning spectral illusions.
Página 232 - ... that the visible universe, replete every where with various forms of animal life, is to fill one period only in the great history of the moral system, and that it is destined, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, to disappear, and to return to its nihility, giving place to new elements, and to new and higher expressions of omnipotence and intelligence.
Página 27 - Very plainly, a disembodied spirit, or we ought rather to say, an unembodied spirit, or sheer mind, is NOWHERE. Place is a relation of extension ; and extension is a property of matter: but that which is wholly abstracted from matter, and in speaking of which we deny that it has any property in common therewith, can in itself be subject to none of its conditions ; and we might as well say of a pure spirit that it is hard, heavy, or red, or that it is a cubic foot in^ dimensions, as say that it is...
Página 26 - Without question we must affirm that Body is the necessary means of bringing Mind into relationship with space and extension, and so, of giving it — PLACE.
Página 222 - ... or if conclusive, then such as must be admitted to apply, with scarcely diminished force, to all sentient orders; and it must be granted that whatever has felt and...

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