The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern ThoughtCocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Religion
The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought
Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
Theism
Science, modern, its metaphysical tendency, 103;
the sphere of science, 294-297.
Self, the fundamental reality of, 13.
Solar heat, dissipation of, 116, 117;
must be finally exhausted, 118.
Space--what is space? 69-78;
is absolute vacuity, 69, 70;
is an entity, 69;
is a relation, 71-75;
confusion of thought in regard to, 71;
confounded with extension, 72
--by Hamilton, 72, 73
--by McCosh, 73
--by Cousin, 74;
confounded with immensity, 74;
the relation of coexistence among extended bodies, 82.
Special providence and the efficacy of prayer, the present
issue between science and religion, 291.
Species, the essential element of, a spiritual entity, 164.
Spencer asserts that force is the ultimate of all ultimates, 25;
his definition of law, 198;
admits that will-force symbolizes the cause of all change, 40, 341.
Spinoza, his assertion that all determination is negation, 43.
Spirit-force the only force in the universe, 236.
Stewart, Dugald, on the impossibility of annihilating space, 70;
answer thereto, 71.
Sufficient reason, the law of, 31.
Symbolical Hymn of Creation, 140-142.
T.
Tait, Prof., rejects direct action at a distance, 214.
Teleological idea the highest law of the universe, 128-130;
not invalidated by the doctrine of evolution, 171.
Temperate Zone, the human race commenced its history in the, 264-268;
purely zoological data would lend us to fix that starting-point in
the Torrid Zone, 268-272;
a providence here revealed, 273, 274.
Temporal character of the universe, 98;
the order of the universe had a beginning, 98;
this has been the common belief of all ages, 99;
all philosophers have recognized a beginning, 101;
modern science sustains this belief, 102, 103;
Geology points back to a beginning, 104-110;
astronomical paletiology confirms the law of finite duration,
110-118;
Physics especially sustains the belief, 118-121.
Thomas Aquinas, his notion of conservation, 177.
Thomson, Sir William, on secular cooling of the earth, 107, 108;
on dissipation of energy, 119, 120;
on the argument from design, 129;
rejects direct action at a distance, 214;
on life, 240.
Tidal friction dissipates mechanical energy, 115.
Time or Succession, what is it? 78;
confounded by most philosophers with duration, 75,
and with eternity, 75;
consequences of this confusion, 76;
answer of McCosh, 78;
of Dr. Porter, 80;
time the measure of finite duration, 83.
Transformation of energy, 208;
illustrations of, 237.
Transitive or relative attributes of God, 50.
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