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قراءة كتاب Is Life Worth Living?
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question for the world now, and the one on which its whole future depends, is, will the lost faith ever be recovered?
CHAPTER IX.
THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC NEGATION.
| What gives the denials of positivism their general weight, is the impression that they represent reason | 208 |
| They are supported by three kinds of arguments: physical, moral, and historical | 209 |
| The two first bear upon all religion; the latter only on special revelations | 210 |
| Natural religion is the belief in God, immortality, and the possibility of miracles generally | 210 |
| Physical science prefers to destroy natural religion by its connection of mind with matter | 210 |
| 1st. Making conscious life a function of the brain. 2nd. Evolving the living organisms from lifeless matter. 3rd. Making this material evolution automatic | 210 |
| Thus all external proofs of God are destroyed | 212 |
| And also of the soul's immortality | 213 |
| External proof is declared to be the test of reality | 213 |
| And therefore all religion is set down as a dream | 215 |
| But we believe that proof is the test of reality, not because it is proved to be so, but because of the authority of those who tell us so | 215 |
| But it will be found that these men do not understand their own principle | 216 |
| And, that in what they consider their most important conclusions they emphatically disregard it | 217 |
| One or other, therefore, of their opinions is worthless—their denial of religion or their affirmation of morality | 219 |
| But we shall see this more clearly in considering the question of consciousness and will | 220 |
| We shall see that, as far as science can inform us, man is nothing but an automaton | 220 |
| But the positive school are afraid to admit this | 221 |
| And not daring to meet the question, they make a desperate effort to confuse it | 222 |
| Two problems are involved in the matter: 1st. How is brain action connected with consciousness | 223 |
| 2nd. Is the consciousness that is connected with it something separable from, and independent of it | 223 |
| The first of these problems has no bearing at all on any moral or religious question. It is insoluble. It leaves us not in doubt but in ignorance | 224 |
| The doubt, and the religious question is connected solely with the second problem | 228 |
| To which there are two alternative solutions | 228 |
| And modern science is so confused that it will accept neither | 228 |
| As Dr. Tyndall's treatment of the subject very forcibly shows us |