item: #1 of 5
          id: 17147
      author: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von
       title: Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
        date: None
       words: 190264
      flesch: 64
     summary: It is this difficulty that has caused two parties to spring up, one of the _predeterminators_, the other of the supporters of _mediate knowledge_. _Metaphysical evil_ consists in mere imperfection, _physical evil_ in suffering, and _moral evil_ in sin.
    keywords: account; action; acts; answer; author; bodies; body; book; cause; choice; consequence; contrary; course; creatures; difficulties; difficulty; divine; doctrine; effect; end; evil; example; existence; faith; father; force; form; freedom; general; god; good; goodness; grace; great; harmony; human; ideas; indifference; infinite; justice; kind; knowledge; laws; leibniz; life; love; m. bayle; man; matter; means; men; mind; moral; motion; nature; necessity; need; non; objection; objects; opinion; order; people; perfect; perfection; philosophers; philosophy; physical; place; pleasure; point; power; principle; produce; question; reason; regard; relation; reply; right; rules; saying; second; sense; sin; soul; state; subject; substance; system; theologians; theology; things; thought; time; truth; understanding; universe; virtue; way; wills; wisdom; wish; work; world
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 19003
      author: Romanes, George John
       title: A Candid Examination of Theism
        date: None
       words: 70726
      flesch: 45
     summary: Hence it is manifestly absurd to adduce this explanation as evidence of the hypothesis on which it rests--to argue that Theism must therefore be true; because we assume it to be so, in order to explain _known_ mind, as distinguished from _Mind_. In the first place, it does not account for mind (in the abstract) to refer it to a prior mind for its origin; and therefore, although the hypothesis, if admitted, would be _an_ explanation of _known_ mind, it is useless as an argument for the existence of the unknown mind, the assumption of which forms the basis of that explanation.
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 32006
      author: Muir, Pearson M'Adam
       title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity
        date: None
       words: 41392
      flesch: 67
     summary: 'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison, 'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with Nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or {73} energy.'[5] Guesses at the Riddle of Existence; Lectures on the Study of History; The founder of Christianity_.
    keywords: appendix; belief; christianity; christians; church; creed; day; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; humanity; jesus; life; light; living; lord; love; man; mankind; men; morality; nature; pantheism; power; religion; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; universe; way; words; world; worship
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 37864
      author: Jones, Jesse Henry
       title: Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer
        date: None
       words: 80933
      flesch: 63
     summary: If, then, only one modification--object--comes into it at a time, this is because the faculties which see in its light are thus organized;--the being to whom it belongs is partial; but there is nothing pertaining to consciousness _as such_, which constitutes a limit,--which could bar the infinite Person from seeing all things at once in its light. So, then, though man cannot comprehend the absolute Person _as such_, he has a positive idea of absoluteness, and a positive knowledge that the Being is who is thus qualified.
    keywords: absolute; conditions; consciousness; existence; fact; faculty; force; form; god; ground; human; idea; infinite; knowledge; law; laws; man; mind; nature; object; person; power; priori; reason; relations; self; sense; space; spencer; thought; time; truth; understanding; universe
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 45850
      author: Flint, Robert
       title: Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876
        date: None
       words: 108445
      flesch: 57
     summary: I. Is belief in God a reasonable belief, or is it not? And religion includes more even than an apprehension of God supplemented by feeling--than the love or fear of God based on knowledge.
    keywords: absolute; argument; belief; cause; character; conscience; design; divine; earth; end; evidence; existence; fact; faith; feeling; form; general; god; good; history; human; idea; inference; infinite; intelligence; knowledge; law; laws; life; light; love; man; matter; means; mind; natural; nature; order; perfect; power; present; principle; proof; question; reason; religion; science; self; sense; system; theism; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; view; wisdom; work; world
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