1821 1883 Cocker (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Former owner's name on front page. Few pages shows markings and underlining.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. x, [12]-426 p.; 20.5 cm. (Methodist union catalog C4803) Marginal pencilling Selected captions from index -- Augustine, St., on the days of creation, 150, 151; his conception of Divine conservation, 176, 177 -- Chalmers's, Dr., incautious concession as to the eternity of matter, 86 -- Conservation of energy not an absolute law, 205, 206; limited by the law of dissipation of energy, 207; not fairly stated by Dr. Tyndall in his discussion on prayer, 331, 332; no evidence that it holds in the realm of vital dynamics and psycho-dynamics, 332; is not absolute in the realm of physics, 332 -- Earth, secular cooling of, 105-108; indications of surface transformations of the, 108, 109 -- Foreknowledge of God and human freedom, 402-405 -- Freedom of God, absolute, 63 -- Hamilton, Sir William, confounds space and extension, 72; also space and immensity, 73; confuses the concepts time, duration, and eternity, 76; on the inconceivability of an absolute commencement, 93 -- Mahan, Dr. A., his fatal concession to Hume, 88; on an infinite series, 88; rejects the a priori argument for the being of God, 88-91 -- Martineau asserts the coeval and coeternal existence of something objective to God,67; if true, would invalidate every proof of the existence of God, 67, 68; on the separate spheres of religion and science, 296 -- Pantheism, the doctrine of unconscious intelligence ends in, 229, 230 -- Repulsion the primary force, 220 -- `The attempts of the necessitarian to fix upon some standard by which to estimate the antecedent strength of motives have all signally failed. The most plausible is that of Edwards. He asserts that the volition is always as the greatest apparent good.' (p.398) Good orig. brown cloth, spine ends frayed. Eps cracked at hinges. …