Sophistry unmasked!: a refutation of the arguments contained in a pamphlet, written and published by John Brindley, entitled "A reply to the infidelity and atheism of socialism," and purporting to be a "judicious summary" of the evidences of natural theology and revealed religion

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Joshua Hobson, 1841 - 64 стор.
 

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Сторінка 50 - But it seems a great partiality not to perceive, that the same argument extends equally to the Deity, so far as we have any conception of him; and that the mind can at least imagine him to be non-existent, or his attributes to be altered. It...
Сторінка 9 - All presumption of death's being the destruction of living beings,' must go upon supposition that they are compounded ; and so, discerptible. But since consciousness is a single and indivisible power, it should seem that the subject in which it resides, must be so too.
Сторінка 6 - The error respecting this" (another) " law of human nature, has led man to create a personal Deity, author of all good ; and a personal devil, author of all evil...
Сторінка 10 - Now, upon supposition that living agent each man calls himself, is thus a single being, which there is at least no more difficulty in conceiving than in conceiving it to be a compound, and of which there is the proof now mentioned ; it follows, that our organized bodies are no more ourselves, or part of ourselves, than any other matter around us.
Сторінка 4 - I propose to prove, as I have already attempted to do in my lectures, that all the religions of the world have been founded on the ignorance of mankind ; that they are directly opposed to the never-changing laws of our nature ; that they have been and are the real source of vice, disunion and misery of every description...
Сторінка 51 - Omnipresence (let it be only by energy) is absolutely necessary in a being of infinity of wisdom. And therefore, " the design argument" is unable to evince that the Deity is in possession of this attribute. It likewise plainly follows, from the inaptitude of this argument to show that God is omnipresent, that thereby we cannot prove infinity of power to belong to him. For if the argument cannot make out that the being it discovers is everywhere present, how can it ever make out that He is everywhere...
Сторінка 22 - Another person having a blister applied to his head, dreamed that he was scalped by a party of Indians.
Сторінка 10 - ... have power over any matter. It is as easy to conceive, that we may exist out of bodies, as in them ; that we might have animated bodies of any other organs and senses wholly different from these now given us, and that we may hereafter animate these same or new bodies variously modified and organized ; as to conceive how we can animate such bodies as our present.
Сторінка 6 - ... all the mythology of the ancients, and all the religions of the moderns, are mere fanciful notions of men whose imaginations have been cultivated to accord with existing prejudices, and whose judgments have been systematically destroyed from their birth.
Сторінка 21 - The sound of a flute in the neighborhood may invoke a thousand beautiful and delightful associations. The air is, perhaps, filled with the tones of harps, -and all other varieties of music — nay, the performers themselves are visible ; and while the cause of this strange scene is one trivial instrument, we may be regaled with a rich and melodious concert.

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