Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
Balfour, Foundations of Belief, 22—“There must be implicitly
present to primitive man the sense of freedom, since his fetichism
largely consists in attributing to inanimate objects the
spontaneity which he finds in himself.” Freedom does not
contradict conservation of energy. Professor Lodge, in Nature,
March 26, 1891—“Although expenditure of energy is needed to
increase the speed of matter, none is needed to alter its
direction.... The rails that guide a train do not propel it, nor
do they retard it; they have no essential effect upon its energy
but a guiding effect.” J. J. Murphy, Nat. Selection and Spir.
Freedom, 170-203—“Will does not create force but directs it. A
very small force is able to guide the action of a great one, as in
the steering of a modern steamship.” James Seth, in Philos. Rev.,
3:285, 286—“As life is not energy but a determiner of the paths of
energy, so the will is a cause, in the sense that it controls and
directs the channels which activity shall take.” See also James
Seth, Ethical Principles, 345-388, and Freedom as Ethical
Postulate, 9—“The philosophical proof of freedom must be the
demonstration of the inadequacy of the categories of science: its
philosophical disproof must be the demonstration of the adequacy
of such scientific categories.” Shadworth Hodgson: “Either liberty
is true, and then the categories are insufficient, or the
categories are sufficient, and then liberty is a delusion.” Wagner
is the composer of determinism; there is no freedom or guilt;
action is the result of influence and environment; a mysterious
fate rules all. Life: “The views upon heredity Of scientists
remind one That, shape one’s conduct as one may, One’s future is
behind one.”
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