The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page 13
... moral and intellectual economy . It is strange that to him the most deep and difficult secrets are those which lie nearest to him . Yet so it is and however inscrutable he may find Nature to be in all her departments , yet never does he ...
... moral and intellectual economy . It is strange that to him the most deep and difficult secrets are those which lie nearest to him . Yet so it is and however inscrutable he may find Nature to be in all her departments , yet never does he ...
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... moral and spiritual health . The vigorous clown may have all the use or enjoyment of it while all the science of it belongs to the sickly valetudinarian . And in like manner the first may never have heard of a moral sense , and yet both ...
... moral and spiritual health . The vigorous clown may have all the use or enjoyment of it while all the science of it belongs to the sickly valetudinarian . And in like manner the first may never have heard of a moral sense , and yet both ...
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... moral state he may be as ignorant of the moral , as many a peasant in a well - conditioned phy- sical state is ignorant of the physical anatomy . In the construction of our ethical systems , this distinc- tion has not been enough ...
... moral state he may be as ignorant of the moral , as many a peasant in a well - conditioned phy- sical state is ignorant of the physical anatomy . In the construction of our ethical systems , this distinc- tion has not been enough ...
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... moral purposes of life , as it can be to know the exact power of that subordinate instrument , which he uses only for his occasional survey of the heavens . " To the philosophy of mind then , every speculation in every science may be ...
... moral purposes of life , as it can be to know the exact power of that subordinate instrument , which he uses only for his occasional survey of the heavens . " To the philosophy of mind then , every speculation in every science may be ...
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... Moral and Intellectual Powers " The science of abstruse learning , I consider in the same light with the ingenious writer , who compares it to Achilles ' spear that healed the wounds that it made before . It serves to repair the damage ...
... Moral and Intellectual Powers " The science of abstruse learning , I consider in the same light with the ingenious writer , who compares it to Achilles ' spear that healed the wounds that it made before . It serves to repair the damage ...
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