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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PAGR Freedom begins with the conflict of motives . .... 82 Summary ........... 82 The a priori arguments on both sides are indecisive ; but the burden of proof is on the advocates of freedom ..... 82 The proportion of life to matter is infinitesimal, and so is the pro- portion of the sphere of freedom to that of necessity . . 83 Matter exists for the sake of life, and so necessary law may exist for the sake of free beings ....... 83 Argument for necessity from statistical regularity, inconclusive . 84 May not many freedoms make one necessity ] ..... 84 Argument from consciousness, on the side of freedom, inconclusive . 85 Guilt and Merit not identical with Sin and Holiness . . .85 Ground of the distinction . . . . . , . .86 Guilt is voluntary sin ......... 86 The distinction is made by consciousness . . . . .86 Self-disapprobation and self-condemnation . . . 86 On this ground I conclude moral freedom to be a reality . . 86 Sense in which the cpiestion of freedom is unpractical ... 87 Effect of belief on this subject on the formation of character . . 87 Eational conceptions of the universe are possible only to a religious philosophy .......... 88 Force, Intelligence, Consciousness, and Freedom are divine . . 88 Note A. Quotations from Newman's Grammar of Assent ... 89 Note B. God's Omnipotence does not exclude freedom ; nor does His Fore- knowledge .......... 90 Poem—Eternity ........... 90 CHAPTER V. THE BASES OF KNOWLEDGE. Faith is the proof of things not seen ... ... 91 Example : belief in a future life 91 Paradoxical nature of Faith ........ 92 Defence of the paradox ......... 92 The capacity for belief is an ultimate fact ..... 92 Belief is of something external to consciousness . . . .92 Science also is the proof of things not seen . . . . ,93 Demand for verification ......... 94 There may be proof which cannot be reduced to scientific form .. 94 Verification rests on assumptions that neither need nor admit of verification .......... 94 Natural beliefs 94 Logical and mathematical beliefs are self-justified, and do not approach to faith . . . . . . . .94