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absolute already amongst Anaxagoras ancient antiquity appears Aristotelian Aristotle atheism atoms attained Aufl Averroes Bacon body Boyle causes century Christian Cogito ergo sum Comp conceived conception connection Copernicus course Demokritos Descartes doctrine elements Empedokles empiricism Epikurean Epikuros especially ethical existence explained expression external fact foll force Gassendi Gesch gods Greek Hist history of Materialism Hobbes human idea important individual influence inquiry intellectual knowledge later Leibniz logical Lucretius Materialistic mathematical matter means ment merely modern moral motion movement natural science Neo-Platonic Newton object observation origin particles phenomena Phil philo philosophy physical Plato political possible potentiality principle Protagoras purely question reason regarded relation religion religious result Scholastic Scholasticism scientific sensation sense Sokrates Sophists soul speculation sphere spirit standpoint Stoics substance suppose teleology tendency thalers theology theory things thought tion totle tradition true truth Ueberweg universal W. R. GREG whole Zeller
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Page 282 - Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, religion; not allowed, superstition.
Page 274 - I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life; and instead of the speculative philosophy usually taught in the schools, to discover a practical philosophy, by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that surround us...
Page 184 - The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Page 128 - When human life to view lay foully prostrate upon earth crushed down under the weight of religion, who showed her head from the quarters of heaven with hideous aspect lowering upon mortals...
Page 259 - ... nos qui talia cogitamus nihil esse: repugnat enim, ut putemus id quod cogitat, eo ipso tempore quo cogitat, non existere. Ac proinde haec cognitio, ego cogito, ergo sum, est omnium prima et certissima, quae cuilibet ordine philosophanti occurrat.
Page 137 - For verily not by design did the first-beginnings of things station themselves each in its right place by keen intelligence, nor did they bargain sooth to say what motions each should assume, but because the first-beginnings of things many in number in many ways impelled by blows for infinite ages back and kept in motion by their own weights have been wont to be carried along and to unite in all manner of ways and thoroughly to test every kind of production possible by their mutual combinations,...
Page 247 - Vous savez sans doute que Galilée a été repris depuis peu par les inquisiteurs de la foi, et que son opinion touchant le mouvement de la terre a été condamnée comme hérétique...
Page 145 - ... .Now no more shall thy house admit thee with glad welcome, nor a most virtuous wife and sweet children run to be the first to snatch kisses and touch thy heart with a silent joy. No more mayst thou be prosperous in thy doings, a safeguard to thine own. One disastrous day has taken from thee luckless man in luckless wise all the many prizes of life'.
Page 184 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.