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... reason , no natural theology in the manner of Thomas , will avail to dissolve their doubts , denials , indifference . This for two reasons : They are too hardened , and in any case , human reason is frankly unequal to the task of ...
... reason , no natural theology in the manner of Thomas , will avail to dissolve their doubts , denials , indifference . This for two reasons : They are too hardened , and in any case , human reason is frankly unequal to the task of ...
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... reason and the evident knowledge the mind has of its own ideas , there reason must be hearkened to . And this because a man can never have so certain a knowledge that a proposition contradictory to reason was divinely revealed , or that ...
... reason and the evident knowledge the mind has of its own ideas , there reason must be hearkened to . And this because a man can never have so certain a knowledge that a proposition contradictory to reason was divinely revealed , or that ...
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... reason , is one and the same in the great as well as in the little . In those to whom such a conception is not familiar , I may at least presume the existence of a belief in reason , a desire , a thirst , for an understanding of it ...
... reason , is one and the same in the great as well as in the little . In those to whom such a conception is not familiar , I may at least presume the existence of a belief in reason , a desire , a thirst , for an understanding of it ...
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