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Excerpt from A Study of Origins: Or the Problems of Knowledge, of Being and of Duty
IT is due to my readers that I should explain how I was led to enter on the discussion of the philosophical and scientific questions of the day. At the time when I was preparing the revision of my History of the first three Centuries of the Church, I was struck, more than I had ever been before, with the increasing vehemence of the attacks made, not only on Christian theism, but on the very foundations of spiritual religion. If we are to believe the men who come forward as the recognised organs of the scientific world, we must conclude that all that has been afi'irmed by the disciples of the Gospel and the philosophers who believe in a God, in the soul, in a future life, in the morality of duty, is but an empty dream. Our aspirations after a higher world are, to use the figure of one of this school, but as dead leaves whirled aloft into the air, which fall back upon the hand that ?ung them. Everything is to be reduced to energy, ever transmuted yet ever the same. That which we take to be thought and consciousness is nothing more than a combination of associated sensations. Ai though these oracular assertions did not for one moment.
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IT is due to my readers that I should explain how I was led to enter on the discussion of the philosophical and scientific questions of the day. At the time when I was preparing the revision of my History of the first three Centuries of the Church, I was struck, more than I had ever been before, with the increasing vehemence of the attacks made, not only on Christian theism, but on the very foundations of spiritual religion. If we are to believe the men who come forward as the recognised organs of the scientific world, we must conclude that all that has been afi'irmed by the disciples of the Gospel and the philosophers who believe in a God, in the soul, in a future life, in the morality of duty, is but an empty dream. Our aspirations after a higher world are, to use the figure of one of this school, but as dead leaves whirled aloft into the air, which fall back upon the hand that ?ung them. Everything is to be reduced to energy, ever transmuted yet ever the same. That which we take to be thought and consciousness is nothing more than a combination of associated sensations. Ai though these oracular assertions did not for one moment.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Edmond de Pressensé
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780428950125
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 554
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ISBN - 9781330702383
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Page Count - 556
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