Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... affirm that anything entitled to be called religion is ever mere knowledge or mere belief ; on the contrary , they pro- ceed on the supposition that feeling and volition will correspond to the knowledge or belief . They define religion ...
... affirm that anything entitled to be called religion is ever mere knowledge or mere belief ; on the contrary , they pro- ceed on the supposition that feeling and volition will correspond to the knowledge or belief . They define religion ...
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... affirm that God exists , and yet deny that His existence can be proved , must either maintain a position obviously erroneous , or use the term proof in some extraordinary sense , fitted only to perplex and mislead . True and weighty ...
... affirm that God exists , and yet deny that His existence can be proved , must either maintain a position obviously erroneous , or use the term proof in some extraordinary sense , fitted only to perplex and mislead . True and weighty ...
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... affirmation of what is denied and the denial of what is affirmed . And it is this because it cannot be anything else — because mere feeling is an impossible experience — and because feeling , so far as it is uncaused and unenlightened ...
... affirmation of what is denied and the denial of what is affirmed . And it is this because it cannot be anything else — because mere feeling is an impossible experience — and because feeling , so far as it is uncaused and unenlightened ...
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... truth necessary to be borne in mind , whenever we affirm the likeness of God to man , is , that in whatever measure and to whatever extent God may be known , our knowledge of Him is Anthropomorphic Theism — its Truth and Error . 93.
... truth necessary to be borne in mind , whenever we affirm the likeness of God to man , is , that in whatever measure and to whatever extent God may be known , our knowledge of Him is Anthropomorphic Theism — its Truth and Error . 93.
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... affirm the existence of no fewer than sixty - four true untransformable species . But suppose the so - called elementary substances of chemistry to be simple , no one can reasonably suppose them as known to us to be ultimate . In oxygen ...
... affirm the existence of no fewer than sixty - four true untransformable species . But suppose the so - called elementary substances of chemistry to be simple , no one can reasonably suppose them as known to us to be ultimate . In oxygen ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 414 - With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 312 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 227 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.