 | 1827 - 566 pages
...society, the first foundation of truth and justice ; the check of the wicked, the hope of the righteous. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." The Treantrer of the Trustees of the General Attembty of the Presbyterian Ckurch acknowledges the receipt... | |
 | 1926 - 794 pages
...behind us when you have only given us eyes in front. Small-minded people are always repeating that if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. They must have a cause for the universe, and they invent one in their own image. If everything requires... | |
 | George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe Strangford (Viscount) - 1844 - 396 pages
...hour more and more attached to the moral and political views which I have ventured to present to you. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." Horrible as this blasphemy seems to us, in a land which is blest and sanctioned by the Church's presence,... | |
 | George Long - 1850 - 704 pages
...humanity : I am only the more attached to the moral and political notions which I have expounded to you : if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him : I speak in a tribune where the shameless Guadet dared to make it a charge against me that I had uttered the... | |
 | Sid Smith - 1850 - 304 pages
...ric* IP that which is trne cannot be profane, Voltaire may almost he pardoned for the sentiment, " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." "Man never is, but always to be blest;" he cannot live in the now and the here ; he must fill the heart's... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...religious Instinct remained strong as ever in the human heart. Again, Voltaire's maxim came true, "that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him;" and so M. Compte, like any other idolater, set himself to work to invent a "Grand Etre," and gave it... | |
 | Record The - 1873 - 232 pages
...that there is for believing in the existence of God. We quote translating literally. "He who said that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him, uttered a profound truth, and gave at the same time the most conclusive proof of God's existence In... | |
 | Friedrich Ueberweg - 1874 - 580 pages
...rewarding and avenging God as necessary, moreover, for the support of the moral order, whence he affirms: " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him ; but all nature cries out to us that he does exist." The Leibuitzian doctrine, that the existing world... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...the righteous. If these heavens, despoiled of their august imprint, could ever cease to manifest it, if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." * Even atheists, in their very atheism, bewray the divine — for as certain as they are human they... | |
 | John Jay Elmendorf - 1876 - 312 pages
...is through the senses. Yet he believes that the existence of a creator is, a post., demonstrable. " If GOD did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him," for the support of a moral order: future rewards and punishments, however, are doubtful. 2. ENGLISH... | |
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Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer. 
