Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... doubt that he deliberately rejected all miracles , whether as a judge , on account of want of evidence , or as a Christian , because they seemed to him in open conflict with the exalted spirit of Christ's own teach- ing . Yet he ...
... doubt that he deliberately rejected all miracles , whether as a judge , on account of want of evidence , or as a Christian , because they seemed to him in open conflict with the exalted spirit of Christ's own teach- ing . Yet he ...
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... doubt it ; and I see in the ready acceptance of these conditions on the part of the Scotch Universities the best proof that in the study and true appreciation of religion also , our nineteenth century has not been stationary . When it ...
... doubt it ; and I see in the ready acceptance of these conditions on the part of the Scotch Universities the best proof that in the study and true appreciation of religion also , our nineteenth century has not been stationary . When it ...
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... doubt whether he is really serious in his etymo- logies or not . You know how in his Cratylus ( 410 ) he derives anp , air , from alpew , to raise , as the element which raises things from the earth ; how he explains αιθήρ , ether , as ...
... doubt whether he is really serious in his etymo- logies or not . You know how in his Cratylus ( 410 ) he derives anp , air , from alpew , to raise , as the element which raises things from the earth ; how he explains αιθήρ , ether , as ...
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... doubt its strong influence upon all our conduct ! ' On the next page I read , ' Theology and Metaphysics have nothing to do with Morality , ' and soon after , Religion has never been other than science , plus worship or emotion . ' We ...
... doubt its strong influence upon all our conduct ! ' On the next page I read , ' Theology and Metaphysics have nothing to do with Morality , ' and soon after , Religion has never been other than science , plus worship or emotion . ' We ...
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... doubt occupy some time , we ought to remember how often a whole dialogue has been devoted by Plato to this kind of philosophical recon- noitring , and ought not to grudge the time which we have to devote to this preliminary inquiry ...
... doubt occupy some time , we ought to remember how often a whole dialogue has been devoted by Plato to this kind of philosophical recon- noitring , and ought not to grudge the time which we have to devote to this preliminary inquiry ...
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Page 111 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 145 - to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. That was called A-diti, the un-bound, the unbounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings,
Page 2 - of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that, if reveal'd. They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd : I knew they lived and mov'd Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves.
Page 609 - 6d, . . , The earliest philosophical and religious poem of India, It has been paraphrased in Arnold's 'Song Celestial! VOL. X. The Dhammapada, Translated from Pali by F. MAX MULLER; and The Sutta-Nipata, Translated from Pali by V. FAUSBOLL ; being Canonical Books of the Buddhists. 8vo., cloth,
Page 531 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country ; for I am the Lord your God V