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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40

Appendix

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Appendix.

Page 3.Sensationalism, in its true character as Materialism, has again entered actively on the scene, now tacitly admitted by thoughtful earnest minds, and again boldly professed and proclaimed by the Enfants terribles of the school, not only in its principle, but in its consequences."
Page 5.Materialism has been named by Mr Carlyle "the grand idolatory by which at all times the true worship, that of the invisible, has been polluted and withstood." He so speaks of all forms of it.
Page 8.Another confession of Tyndall's runs thus :—"I have noticed during years of self-observation that it is not in hours of clearness and vigour that the doctrine (of Materialistic Atheism) commends itself to my mind, and that, in the presence of stronger and healthier thought, it ever dissolves and disappears as offering no solution of the mystery in which we dwell, and of which we form part." See Belfast Address Additions.
Page 13.President Barnard (see Hodge's S. Theology vol. 1., pp. 201-2) thus reasons :—"Thought cannot be a physical force, because thought admits of no measure. I think it will be conceded without controversey that there is no form of Material substance, and no known force of a physical nature (and there are no other forces), of which we cannot, in some form, definitely express the quantity by reference to some conventional measuring unit. No such means of measuring mental action has been suggested. No such means can be conceived. Now I maintain that a thing, which is unsusceptible of measurement, cannot be a quantity, and that a thing that is not even a quantity, cannot be a force."
Page 14The "Systême de la Nature" was first published in 1780 by Condillac. Its authorship seems to be somewhat doubtful. It is usually quoted as by D'Holbach. But it has also been ascribed to Mirabeau.
Page 15Guizot's words are :—Modeste en apparence, quoique, au fond, prodigieusement orgeilleux." Meditations, Vol. ii., p. 250.
Page 15Dr. Hodge, in his enumeration of the principles of Comtism puts the sixth thus :—"As everything is included in the department of physics, everything is controlled by physical laws, and there is no more freedom in human acts than in the motions of the stars; and, therefore, the one can be predicted with the same certainty as the other." See Hodge, S. Theology, Vol, i., p 255.

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