Matter, Force, and Spirit; Or, Scientific Evidence of a Supreme IntelligencePutnam, 1895 - 144 من الصفحات |
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absolute affections of matter aggregate animal asserted attractive energy bodies cause chemical action chemical affinity concede conception course degree diffused direction distance Divine effect electrical and magnetic ence energy of matter equal eternal existence explain extended final units force and matter force of matter free energy G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS gravitation greater heat motion herent hypothesis idea inbeing force inert infinite inherent energy inherent force intelligence intensity interchange of motion law of attraction less light limit magnitude manifestations material matter and force mechanical mental mind modes of motion molecules motion of matter multiple atoms nature nebular hypothesis nebulous orbits organic forms phenomena physical affections physical forces planets possible primary force produce religion repulsion resistance resultant solar system space sphere spirit force spirit power stellar structure substance supposed Supreme Spirit surface tendency thought tion tiple truth ultimate units units of matter Universal Spirit vast vibration
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الصفحة 144 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
الصفحة 116 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern In that matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.
الصفحة 23 - ... single grain. The general attractive force of all matter must, however, impel these masses to approach each other, and to condense, so that the nebulous sphere became incessantly smaller, by which, according to mechanical laws, a motion of rotation originally slow, and the existence of which must be assumed, would gradually become quicker and quicker.
الصفحة 116 - Abandoning all disguise, the confession that I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.
الصفحة i - Science was Faith once ; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.
الصفحة 36 - ... exact Science, and therefore of a Philosophy which unifies the results of exact Science. Motions of masses and of molecules, exhibited by bodies both organic and inorganic, form the larger half of the phenomena to be interpreted; and if such motions might either proceed from nothing or lapse into nothing, there would be an end to scientific interpretation of them. Each constituent change might as well as not be supposed to begin and end of itself.
الصفحة 121 - A vulnerable spot on our side seems to be the connection between life and energy. The conservation of energy has been so long established as to have become a commonplace. The relation of life to energy is not understood. Life is not energy, and the death of an animal affects the amount of energy no whit; yet a live animal exerts control over energy which a dead one cannot.
الصفحة 28 - The result of this calculation is, that only about the 454th part of the original mechanical force remains as such, and that the remainder, converted into heat, would be sufficient to raise a mass of water equal to the sun and planets taken together, not less than twenty-eight millions of degrees of the centigrade scale. For the sake of comparison, I will mention that the highest temperature which we can produce by the...
الصفحة 109 - Before one can say that the world is without a God, he must first have become thoroughly conversant with the whole world. He must have searched through the universe of suns and stars, as well as the history of all ages ; he must have wandered through the whole realm of space and time in order to be able to assert with truth, " Nowhere has a trace of God been found...
الصفحة 100 - It is evident, therefore, that the recognition of second causes cannot preclude the idea of the existence of God. If, in tracing the chain of causes upward, we stop at any cause, or force, or principle, that force or principle becomes for us God, since it is the efficient agent controlling the phenomena of the universe. Thus, Theism is necessary, intuitive, and therefore universal. We cannot get rid of it if we would.