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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... thing , however , appears certain , that the culture of the age is quickly leaving the theological systems which served former generations , simply because the education of their genera- tions did not place them on a basis admitting of ...
... thing , however , appears certain , that the culture of the age is quickly leaving the theological systems which served former generations , simply because the education of their genera- tions did not place them on a basis admitting of ...
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... things , we may not exactly know . If , however , by excluding Optimism on the one hand , and Pessimism on the other , as two obvious errors , and by taking the world at its manifest worth , there is ample evidence remaining that ...
... things , we may not exactly know . If , however , by excluding Optimism on the one hand , and Pessimism on the other , as two obvious errors , and by taking the world at its manifest worth , there is ample evidence remaining that ...
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... things of evil omen ? Or should we not rather believe that they are the harbingers of a new and grander development of intel- lectual , moral , and religious thought and life , pointing to a second Reformation that is approaching , when ...
... things of evil omen ? Or should we not rather believe that they are the harbingers of a new and grander development of intel- lectual , moral , and religious thought and life , pointing to a second Reformation that is approaching , when ...
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... thing in the world . Could the Eternal- Infinite One be imaged in any finite work , we might , in figurative and poetical language , exclaim that Man is , indeed , a noble although a mysterious mirror of the Deity ; and , with all his ...
... thing in the world . Could the Eternal- Infinite One be imaged in any finite work , we might , in figurative and poetical language , exclaim that Man is , indeed , a noble although a mysterious mirror of the Deity ; and , with all his ...
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... things in the universe , there is none between the infinite and the finite , eternity and time . A broad and deep curtain of darkest shade hangs between the intellect of man and any supposed , vainly assumed , faculties and other ...
... things in the universe , there is none between the infinite and the finite , eternity and time . A broad and deep curtain of darkest shade hangs between the intellect of man and any supposed , vainly assumed , faculties and other ...
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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.