Backwards, I am in accord with the materialists but not forwards.
The French materialists had this conviction, to a fanatical degree, no less than the deists, Voltaire and Rousseau, and made the greatest personal sacrifices for it.
Its practice is based upon laws which the materialists have been for some time proclaiming to be "supreme.
Sceptics may contemn and object, materialists may scoff; but numerous facts as well as a very general sentiment are against their conclusions and convictions.
The theologians believe that Christ was born of the Holy Spirit, but the materialists think this is impossible and inadmissible, and that without doubt He had a human father.
The materialists believe that there must be marriage, and say that a living body cannot be created from a lifeless body, and without male and female there cannot be fecundation.
The materialists insist upon this belief, and the theologians reply: “Is this globe eternal or phenomenal?
Christ had a mother; the first man, as the materialists believe, had neither father nor mother.
In regard to this question, theologians and materialists disagree.
This indeterminism was held by all the Greek sceptics, materialiststhough they were.
As materialists work out their theory, their so-called matter grows more and more ethereal, until at last a stage is reached when it cannot be distinguished from what others call spirit.
To this radical theory the French materialists of the eighteenth century were especially attracted.
Large meaning here given by Plato to Ens--comprehending not only objects of Perception, but objects of Conception besides 229 Narrower meaning given by Materialists to Ens--they included only Objects of Perception.
Side-note: Narrower meaning given by Materialists to Ens--they included only Objects of Perception.
Plato here denies this, and maintains that ideas were partly changeable, partly unchangeable 228 Plato's reasoning against theMaterialists ib.
With the Materialists it is difficult, and all but impossible, to deal at all.
Plato's argument against the Materialists 224 Reply open to the Materialists ib.
The universe, regarded even only so far as it is admitted by all materialists no less than by theists and pantheists to be an effect, cannot be explained, as materialists think, merely physically.
When it leaves the hands and passes into the two sticks, it is, as the materialists assert, vital force.
The whole controversy, as at present conducted by the materialists and vitalists, resolves itself into this one question:--Whether life springs from what Dr.
It is claimed to be a recently discovered force, and is one that the materialists have seized upon as the Herculean club with which to smite all vital theories to the earth.
The simple truth is, and the materialists will be forced to admit it in the end, that there is no verification of this theory beyond that of mere force-equivalence.
The materialists should not too mincingly chop logic over the validity of their own reasoning.
All beyond this point must be given up to other "correlates of motion" than those to which the materialists specifically assign the beginnings of life.
In this light, and as affording this conclusive induction, the crystalline argument of the materialists has its value.
It behooves the materialists to use language with more precision and accuracy than this.
This definition, when first formulated, was received by all the materialists of Europe with the wildest enthusiasm.
Materialists have attempted to build up a system of morality upon the basis of enlightened self-interest.
They would have man figure out by mathematics that it pays him to abstain from wrong-doing; they would even inject an element of selfishness into altruism, but the moral system elaborated by the materialists has several defects.
Now, from this proposition, the thorough materialists dissent as much, on the one hand, as Berkeley does, upon the other hand.
Thus far then materialistsand idealists are agreed.
And it was thought that it conduced to the interests of religion and morality to attack the materialists with all the weapons that came to hand.
In a word, you will always find the idealists in the very act of practical materialism, while you will see the materialists pursuing and realizing the most grandly ideal aspirations and thoughts.
Perhaps, too, while speaking of liberty as something very respectable and very dear in their eyes, they give the term a meaning quite different from the conception entertained by us, materialists and Revolutionary Socialists.
To usmaterialists and Revolutionary Socialists, there is nothing astonishing or terrifying in this historical phenomenon.
Undoubtedly the idealists are wrong and the materialists right.
French materialists of the eighteenth century, I have no doubt the latter would be the true explanation.
This at once sets aside all that materialists have said in order to show that spirit and breath are one and the same.
Materialists have claimed that mind is simply the result of the molecular action of the brain.
Materialists also admit, only intelligent bodies are observed to be the movers of chariots and other non-intelligent things.
Materialists consider intelligence to be a mere attribute of the body.
It is, however, remarkable that with the exception of the Cârvâka materialists all the other systems agree on some fundamental points of importance.
Such materialistsare not the creatures of the twentieth century, but they have lived in all ages, in all countries.
Some of the agnostics and materialists have gone so far as to say that Jesus did not die on the cross, but his animation was suspended when his body was taken down from the cross by Joseph of Arimathsea.
But he was inspired to ask me, that I should make a trial there in his room in which some of his materialists were with him.
In the octava of the outbreak of the infernal furies in the French Revolution of February, 1848, spirits commenced to awaken materialists by raps through the Fox Girls in the vicinity of Rochester of this State of New-York.
The materialists have quoted a passage of Locke in favour of their doctrine, who seemed to doubt "whether it might not have pleased God to bestow a power of thinking on matter.
This is his "burden of the word of the Lord" to the worldly-wise and the materialists of civilized Alexandria--and to Jews of other lands.
Since then there has been great rejoicing in the camp of materialists who scoffed at the "ignorant" who would not as yet forsake vital force.
Under the Archonship of Euclid, bastards and slaves were excluded from initiation; and the same exclusion obtained against the Materialists or Epicureans who denied Providence and consequently the utility of initiation.
They were noMaterialists nor Pantheists; but taught that Matter was not eternal or co-existent with the great First Cause, but created by Him.
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