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... true divinity , 28. - Faith accepts what science offers as true , and hallows it , 28. - Faith tends to conservatism ; science to progress ; hence strife , 29. - Distinction betweeen pure religious faith and its accessories , 29. - The ...
... true divinity , 28. - Faith accepts what science offers as true , and hallows it , 28. - Faith tends to conservatism ; science to progress ; hence strife , 29. - Distinction betweeen pure religious faith and its accessories , 29. - The ...
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... true relations are antithetical is proved by the chron- ic antagonism which they display . Should we assert that the religious faculty of man is that which recognizes divine existence , and recognizes religious and moral obligations ...
... true relations are antithetical is proved by the chron- ic antagonism which they display . Should we assert that the religious faculty of man is that which recognizes divine existence , and recognizes religious and moral obligations ...
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... true to its rule . Whatever is set up as the standard of right , conscience whips its possessor into submission . We may confuse the subject by speaking of " moral judg ments . " This expression , however , can only mean a judgment upon ...
... true to its rule . Whatever is set up as the standard of right , conscience whips its possessor into submission . We may confuse the subject by speaking of " moral judg ments . " This expression , however , can only mean a judgment upon ...
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... true physical causes . Religious faith , in the mean time , would cling to its cherished objects ; and the strife with progressive and iconoclastic intellect would be perpetuated . Thus , step by step , religious faith , which casts its ...
... true physical causes . Religious faith , in the mean time , would cling to its cherished objects ; and the strife with progressive and iconoclastic intellect would be perpetuated . Thus , step by step , religious faith , which casts its ...
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... true and the false . The dis- appointment and grief of Faith arise from the unreality and worthlessness of much which she receives from the hands of science . Science is an indefatigable reaper ; but how many tares do we find bound up ...
... true and the false . The dis- appointment and grief of Faith arise from the unreality and worthlessness of much which she receives from the hands of science . Science is an indefatigable reaper ; but how many tares do we find bound up ...
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Page 125 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of...
Page 136 - I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.
Page 238 - In affirming that the growth of the body is mechanical, and that thought, as exercised by us, has its correlative in the physics of the brain, I think the position of the " Materialist " is stated as far as that position is a tenable one. I think the materialist will be able finally to maintain this position against all attacks ; but I do not think, as the human mind is at present constituted, that he can pass beyond it.
Page 118 - In every such change we recognize the action of FORCE. And in the only case in which we are admitted into any personal knowledge of the origin of force, we find it connected (possibly by intermediate links untraceable by our faculties, but yet indisputably connected} with volition, and by inevitable consequence, with motive, with intellect, and with all those , attributes of mind in which — and not in the possession of arms, legs, brains, and viscera — personality consists.
Page 230 - I know how the corn sprouts? Yesterday there was not a blade in my field ; to-day I returned to the field and found some. Who can have given to the earth the wisdom and the power to produce it ? " " Then I buried my face in both my hands.
Page 363 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 110 - The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena of the universe...
Page 159 - Ceux qui ont dit qu'une fatalité aveugle a produit tous les effets que nous voyons dans le monde, ont dit une grande absurdité; car quelle plus grande absurdité qu'une fatalité aveugle qui aurait produit des êtres intelligents?
Page 237 - ... like Hume. Mr. Spencer takes another line. With him, as with the uneducated man, there is no doubt or question as to the existence of an external world. But he differs from the uneducated, who think that the world really is what consciousness represents it to be. Our states of consciousness are mere symbols of an outside entity which produces them and determines the order of their succession, but the real nature of which we can never know.
Page 278 - ... (what, however, it can never do), all laws in a single formula, and consummate all conditional knowledge in the unity of unconditional existence. Nor is it only in science that the mind desiderates the one. We seek it equally in works of art.