The Reasoner, Volumes 7-8J. Watson, 1850 |
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... minds are made up , ' but they wish others to make up their minds likewise ; and they give money that their convictions may be shared by the forlorn savage at the remotest bounds of the earth . ' Old infidelity ' has none of this spirit ...
... minds are made up , ' but they wish others to make up their minds likewise ; and they give money that their convictions may be shared by the forlorn savage at the remotest bounds of the earth . ' Old infidelity ' has none of this spirit ...
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... mind , and the relative value of its aims . Everywhere the mind of man is active , unsatisfied and aspir- ing ; and while he knows so little of the world he lives in , and the com- panions beside him , and the unseen region of ideas ...
... mind , and the relative value of its aims . Everywhere the mind of man is active , unsatisfied and aspir- ing ; and while he knows so little of the world he lives in , and the com- panions beside him , and the unseen region of ideas ...
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... mind of the state of the dead : and these evidences will be regarded by the philoso- pher with the solemn reverence which the wise cannot but feel towards every form in which Faith , the noblest of human faculties , manifests itself ...
... mind of the state of the dead : and these evidences will be regarded by the philoso- pher with the solemn reverence which the wise cannot but feel towards every form in which Faith , the noblest of human faculties , manifests itself ...
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... mind . If morally inferior , he glorified himself thereupon : if morally single , he only sang praises to Truth , ' and went on his way satisfied that , in exterminating religion , he was doing the best that in him lay towards ...
... mind . If morally inferior , he glorified himself thereupon : if morally single , he only sang praises to Truth , ' and went on his way satisfied that , in exterminating religion , he was doing the best that in him lay towards ...
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... mind too exclusively reflexive , and endangers pride and self - confidence . Virtue is an abstrac- tion , a set of wise rules , not a person ; and cannot call out affection , as an existence exterior to the soul does . On the contrary ...
... mind too exclusively reflexive , and endangers pride and self - confidence . Virtue is an abstrac- tion , a set of wise rules , not a person ; and cannot call out affection , as an existence exterior to the soul does . On the contrary ...
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