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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Existence of God (4611 words) |
 | A moderate reaction against the too rigidly mathematical intellectualism of Descartes was to be welcomed, but the Kantian reaction by its excesses has injured the cause of Theism and helped forward the cause of anti-theistic philosophy. |
 | Herbert Spencer, as is well known, borrowed most of his arguments for Agnosticism from Hamilton and Mansel, who had popularized Kantian criticism in England, while in trying to improve on Kant's reconstructive transcendentalism, his German disciples (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel) drifted into Pantheism. |
 | To mention a third form of statement, Leibniz would put the argument thus: God is at least possible since the concept of Him as the Infinite implies no contradiction; but if He is possible He must exist because the concept of Him involves existence. |
| The Ultimate List of islands by area Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (194 words) |
 | This is a list of islands in the world ordered by area. |
 | Note: Australia, at 7,600,000 km², is generally considered to be a continental landmass, rather than an island. |
 | If however one does count Australia among the islands it, not Greenland, would be the largest in the world. |