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The laws which govern the material world , and the causes of physical phenomena , are more or less discoverable by the human mind , because the tendency of analysis , and of its results , is to render the apprehension of those causes ...
The laws which govern the material world , and the causes of physical phenomena , are more or less discoverable by the human mind , because the tendency of analysis , and of its results , is to render the apprehension of those causes ...
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Human actions , he says , may be predicted , and upon this foundation he proceeds to use language which seems to ignore any kind of distinction between right and wrong , or , at any rate , any individual liability to praise or blame .
Human actions , he says , may be predicted , and upon this foundation he proceeds to use language which seems to ignore any kind of distinction between right and wrong , or , at any rate , any individual liability to praise or blame .
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Such a way of think- ing would be open to the obvious and conclusive objection that by implication it excludes divine agency from all but a few human affairs , if it rested on the notion that these events were of an entirely exceptional ...
Such a way of think- ing would be open to the obvious and conclusive objection that by implication it excludes divine agency from all but a few human affairs , if it rested on the notion that these events were of an entirely exceptional ...
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