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Page 27
... lights by which our ancestors were bewildered , or of that greater light which put out them all . The confidence of Nature was dis- turbed by the reveries of the schoolmen . But now that these reveries are dissipated the confidence is ...
... lights by which our ancestors were bewildered , or of that greater light which put out them all . The confidence of Nature was dis- turbed by the reveries of the schoolmen . But now that these reveries are dissipated the confidence is ...
Page 52
... light on the origin and progress of our belief in testi- mony , but to accord with the surmises both of Dugald Stewart and Turgot , when they approximate to what we have long regarded as the true account or philosophy of the process de ...
... light on the origin and progress of our belief in testi- mony , but to accord with the surmises both of Dugald Stewart and Turgot , when they approximate to what we have long regarded as the true account or philosophy of the process de ...
Page 59
... light , and the recur- rence of about two tides every day are the examples of this which first occur to us . The causal antece- dent of the former phenomenon may not be reflected on , and of the latter may not be known . Yet this does ...
... light , and the recur- rence of about two tides every day are the examples of this which first occur to us . The causal antece- dent of the former phenomenon may not be reflected on , and of the latter may not be known . Yet this does ...
Page 61
... light of day -- but they have learned by frequent observation , that , at the expiry of a certain period of darkness , the cause of this light comes into operation . Experience does not tell that the same cause always produces the same ...
... light of day -- but they have learned by frequent observation , that , at the expiry of a certain period of darkness , the cause of this light comes into operation . Experience does not tell that the same cause always produces the same ...
Page 137
... light that comes after it , and altogether composing a broad stream of effulgence that has borne down the gospel story on such characters of brightness as no distance of time can obscure , and as , in fact , the researches of each ...
... light that comes after it , and altogether composing a broad stream of effulgence that has borne down the gospel story on such characters of brightness as no distance of time can obscure , and as , in fact , the researches of each ...
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