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... physics , and kept the human mind stationary for two thousand years , hardly too much praise can be conferred upon the philosopher who not only pointed out the gap but supplied the materials for its obliteration . The ardency of his ...
... physics , and kept the human mind stationary for two thousand years , hardly too much praise can be conferred upon the philosopher who not only pointed out the gap but supplied the materials for its obliteration . The ardency of his ...
Page 33
... Physics and Metaphysics . Physics relate to the Investigation of Efficient Causes and Matter ; Metaphysics to that of Final Causes and the Form , sion of Physics into the Sciences of the Principles of Things , the Structure of Things ...
... Physics and Metaphysics . Physics relate to the Investigation of Efficient Causes and Matter ; Metaphysics to that of Final Causes and the Form , sion of Physics into the Sciences of the Principles of Things , the Structure of Things ...
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... physics , we cannot see how theology can be entirely divorced from natural philosophy . Physicists are too apt to consider the universe as eternally exist . ing , without contemplating it in its finite aspect as a series of existences ...
... physics , we cannot see how theology can be entirely divorced from natural philosophy . Physicists are too apt to consider the universe as eternally exist . ing , without contemplating it in its finite aspect as a series of existences ...
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... physics , delivered in a certain sublimity of discourse , by such as aim at being admired for standing on the pinnacles of the sciences ; but what we mean is , without ambition , to design some general science , for the reception of ...
... physics , delivered in a certain sublimity of discourse , by such as aim at being admired for standing on the pinnacles of the sciences ; but what we mean is , without ambition , to design some general science , for the reception of ...
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... physics , and holds in natural theology ; for as the sum of matter neither diminishes nor increases , so it is equally the work of omnipotence to create or to annihilate it which even the Scripture testifies : " Didici quod omnia opera ...
... physics , and holds in natural theology ; for as the sum of matter neither diminishes nor increases , so it is equally the work of omnipotence to create or to annihilate it which even the Scripture testifies : " Didici quod omnia opera ...
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