The scientific bases of faith / by Joseph John Murphy.

  • Murphy, Joseph John, 1827-1894.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The scientific bases of faith / by Joseph John Murphy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    due to the Similarity of religious and scientific spirits Love of truth the same in Religion and in Science Intellectual humility ..... Intellectual independence .... The scientific spirit may regenerate theology . Various effects of science in modifying our conceptions of the universe, moral as well as physical . Possibility of natural science ..... Discovery of an order in the universe Astronomical discoveries ..... Things are not what they seem .... Our earth is one of many worlds . . . . Moral bearing of this truth ..... It has not had the influence it merits. This may be dogma of the Fall, which is now no longer credible Science has become historical .... The nebular theory ..... Geology ........ The evolution of living forms, and of human society Continuity of all history .... All evidence is against a Fall .... Science has changed our ideas of the relation between mind ....... Two causes of this ...... Prominence now given to dynamic conceptions in physical science These are not altogether new, but are more obvious now than formerly ....... Progress of mental science .... Psychology gives no ground for the belief in a distinct mental substance ; but shows mind as a concomitant of nervous action Summary ... Note. Explanation of the word Energy as distinguished from Force . matter and 9 10 10 10 10 1] i: i] n i] li 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 15 16 CHAPTER I. METAPHYSICAL AND POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. The Positive Philosophy . . . . . . . .17 Better called negative 17 Comte's fundamental dogma, that all knowledge is only phenomenal 18 Inference that theology and metaphysics are impossible ... 18 Revelation possibly consistent with Comte's dogma. ... 18 Statement of his view . . . . . . . . .19 l.'i Iigi<hi and Philosophy are attempts to explain the universe . . 19 Three kinds of attempted explanations : theological or mythological, metaphysical, and inductive ....... 19