 As well might we, resting on the earth, deny that there is any depth beneath, or, living in time, deny eternity. I do not say, therefore, that there is no God : but that it is extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a Person. All we know is phenomena...  The Natural History of Atheism - Pàgina 229per John Stuart Blackie - 1878 - 253 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 416 pàgines
...beings. I am far from being an Atheist, as resting on second causes. As well might we, resting on the earth, deny that there is any depth beneath, or, living...things we know absolutely nothing, and can know nothing : and that no form of words could convey any knowledge of it : and that no form of thought could imagine... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pàgines
...earth, deny that there is any depth beneath, or, living in time deny eternity. I do not say, therefore, there is no God ; but that it is extravagant and irreverent...things we know absolutely nothing, and can know nothing : and that no form of words could convey any knowledge of it : and that no form of thought could imagine... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pàgines
...earth, deny that there is any depth beneath, or, living in time deny eternity. I do not say, therefore, there is no God ; but that it is extravagant and irreverent...things we know absolutely nothing, and can know nothing : and that no form of words could convey any knowledge of it : and that no form of thought could imagine... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pàgines
...promises, and awake to common life." u At p. 240, he tells us in what sense he is not an Atheist ; " I " do not say, therefore, that there is no God :...extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a Person." " I cannot believe in a manufacturing God as implied " in the idea of a Creator, and a creation ; nor... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pàgines
...the infinite and the eternal omnipresent law, and principle of nature ?' — P. 189. And again — ' I do not say, therefore, that there is no God : but...extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a person. — (P. 240.) There is no theory of a God, (says Miss Martineau), of an author of nature, of an origin... | |
 | j. stevenson bushnan, m.d. - 1851 - 206 pàgines
...the word, is blessed with an abundant faith. This appears from the following passage : " I do not say that there is no God: but that it is extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a person." P. 240. Nevertheless, extremes meeting, he is a believer in the pseudo-sciences of Phrenology, Mesmerism,... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1858 - 456 pàgines
...and the Pantheist, could accompany us on at least a portion of our way. The man who will " not say there is no God, but that it is extravagant and irreverent to imagine that Cause a person:"* the Philosopher who so devoted himself to the study of physics, as to see law everywhere and God nowhere... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1877 - 468 pàgines
...subsequently called her tutor to account for using the term "God." He explained by saying, " I do not say that there is no God, but that it is extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a PERSON." quenees of what is, is designed, or could Lave been designed ; since we must, after all, go back to... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1905 - 332 pàgines
...book Dr. Martineau reviewed, Mr. Atkinson said :— " I am far from being an Atheist . I do not say there is no God, but that it is extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a Person." Miss Martineau herself writes in the same series of letters :— "There is no theory of a God, of an... | |
 | 1851 - 648 pàgines
...denial of all the leading ideas that distinguish theism from atheism. In another sentence, we find, "I do not say, therefore, that there is no God ; but...extravagant and irreverent to imagine that cause a person." There is, again, no evidence that it is against the error of confounding divine with human personality... | |
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