Theism. Flint Robert

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СКАЧАТЬ its forces are but manifestations or outgoings of will-force. If so, the whole material world is not only dependent on, but is, the will of God, and has no being of any kind apart from the will of God. If so, God's will is not only the cause and controlling power of nature, but its substance, its self. And this view, that what alone substantially underlies all the phenomena we designate material is an acting mind, an energising will, has not only been reached by mental philosophers and idealistic speculators, but by those physicists who, like Boscovitch and Faraday, have found themselves forced to conclude that what is constitutive of matter is not indivisible particles, even infinitesimally small, but mere centres of force, since force necessarily implies some sort of substance, and, therefore, spirit where not matter.

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      See Appendix II.

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      By J. S. Mill, in the very essay in which he assailed religion by trying to show that the world had outgrown the need of it.

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      See Appendix III.

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      See Appendix IV.

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      See Appendix V.

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See Appendix I.

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See Appendix II.

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By J. S. Mill, in the very essay in which he assailed religion by trying to show that the world had outgrown the need of it.

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See Appendix III.

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See Appendix IV.

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See Appendix V.

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See Appendix VI.

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See Appendix VII.

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E. Naville, 'The Heavenly Father,' pp. 283, 284.

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See Appendix VIII.

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Ulrici, Gott und die Natur, i.

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See Appendix IX.

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See Appendix X.

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Barrett's Physical Ethics, p. 225.

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Three Essays on Religion, pp. 142, 143.