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... vast development in passing from its lowest to its highest stages . In- stantly , however , we must remind ourselves that there are still in existence , among the different tribes and races , all the various degrees of advancement ...
... vast development in passing from its lowest to its highest stages . In- stantly , however , we must remind ourselves that there are still in existence , among the different tribes and races , all the various degrees of advancement ...
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... vast majority of people are so little disciplined in this respect that their beliefs are largely a jumble of a few reasons and many prejudices , involving all sorts of piques , crotchets and guesses ; indeed it may be said that popular ...
... vast majority of people are so little disciplined in this respect that their beliefs are largely a jumble of a few reasons and many prejudices , involving all sorts of piques , crotchets and guesses ; indeed it may be said that popular ...
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... vast amount of information that comes to each of us second hand , and in fact we constantly employ it in this way . When we speak of modern knowledge in general , or of any particular branch of it , like one of the sciences , we allude ...
... vast amount of information that comes to each of us second hand , and in fact we constantly employ it in this way . When we speak of modern knowledge in general , or of any particular branch of it , like one of the sciences , we allude ...
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... vast igno- rance and uncertainty , a realm of mystery that seems to deepen as life expands . Into this darkness we are all striving to project the rays of our search - lights a little farther , each day , each year , each generation ...
... vast igno- rance and uncertainty , a realm of mystery that seems to deepen as life expands . Into this darkness we are all striving to project the rays of our search - lights a little farther , each day , each year , each generation ...
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... vast and so enshrouded in mystery that we inevitably experience the greatest diffi- culty in bringing it within the range of our compre- hension . Yet it is best to treat it in as clear and simple a way as possible , avoiding all ...
... vast and so enshrouded in mystery that we inevitably experience the greatest diffi- culty in bringing it within the range of our compre- hension . Yet it is best to treat it in as clear and simple a way as possible , avoiding all ...
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Page 102 - But he said; Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Page 102 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Page 91 - And, moved through life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge ; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 28 - ... made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him...
Page 74 - Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Page 115 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 74 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Page 23 - A religion is a form of belief, providing an ultrarational sanction for that large class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.
Page 48 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 102 - But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him; Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from whence then hath it tares ? He said unto them; An enemy hath done this.