Thoughts on Theism: With Suggestions Towards a Public Religious Service in Harmony with Modern Science and PhilosophyTrübner & Company, 1882 - 98 страници |
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... feeling and speculative philosophy at the present time may be made by way of introduction . The religious world — especially in England , Germany , and America — is in our day sadly out of harmony with modern thought , and the air is ...
... feeling and speculative philosophy at the present time may be made by way of introduction . The religious world — especially in England , Germany , and America — is in our day sadly out of harmony with modern thought , and the air is ...
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... feel that they are abreast of the time in which we live . Other agencies , likewise , than those which are directly intellectual , are tending silently , yet powerfully , to soften theological asperity , and to make men , in their ...
... feel that they are abreast of the time in which we live . Other agencies , likewise , than those which are directly intellectual , are tending silently , yet powerfully , to soften theological asperity , and to make men , in their ...
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... feels safe in acting upon the experiences of former years in growing grain and rearing cattle ; the en- gineer accepts the strength of metals and the force of steam ; the ship - builder the carrying power of water ; the chemist ...
... feels safe in acting upon the experiences of former years in growing grain and rearing cattle ; the en- gineer accepts the strength of metals and the force of steam ; the ship - builder the carrying power of water ; the chemist ...
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... feel calmly , and to think clearly , when the liver is out of order ; there is then a good foundation for hallucination . One may freely admit that persons have seen apparitions , and have heard voices which they thought to be ...
... feel calmly , and to think clearly , when the liver is out of order ; there is then a good foundation for hallucination . One may freely admit that persons have seen apparitions , and have heard voices which they thought to be ...
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... feel obliged by your Lordship taking the usual steps to make this my wish known to our brethren in their several dioceses . ' وو " Our prayers for fair weather are founded on our practical ignorance . Already we know sufficiently well ...
... feel obliged by your Lordship taking the usual steps to make this my wish known to our brethren in their several dioceses . ' وو " Our prayers for fair weather are founded on our practical ignorance . Already we know sufficiently well ...
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Страница 79 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
Страница 35 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellowcreatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Страница 76 - None of the processes of nature, since the time when nature began, have produced the slightest difference in the properties of any molecule. We are therefore unable to ascribe either the existence of the molecules or the identity of their properties to the operation of any of the causes which we call natural.
Страница 7 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Страница 48 - It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions, has been not only the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice...
Страница 81 - That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Страница 47 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...
Страница 48 - ... the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice, and has exercised so deep an influence that it may be truly said that the simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
Страница 84 - Be all the colour of the flower : So then were nothing lost to man ; So that still garden of the souls In many a figured leaf enrolls The total world since life began...
Страница 78 - On the whole we must really acknowledge that there is a complete absence of any fossil type of a lower stage in the development of man. Nay, if we gather together the whole sum of the fossil men hitherto known and put them parallel with those of the present time, we can decidedly pronounce that there are among living men a much gi eater number of individuals who show a relatively inferior type than there are among the fossils known up to this time.