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... reason for fear . We cannot feel our dependence upon what we do not know to exist . We cannot feel trustful and confiding dependence on what we do not suppose to have a character which merits trust and confidence . Then , however true ...
... reason for fear . We cannot feel our dependence upon what we do not know to exist . We cannot feel trustful and confiding dependence on what we do not suppose to have a character which merits trust and confidence . Then , however true ...
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... reason and duty com- mand us to resist and suppress . But religion is certainly a very large pheno- menon . It is practically coextensive , indeed , with human life and history . It is doubtful if any people , any age , has been without ...
... reason and duty com- mand us to resist and suppress . But religion is certainly a very large pheno- menon . It is practically coextensive , indeed , with human life and history . It is doubtful if any people , any age , has been without ...
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... reasons , and also the grounds of religious belief , will be impartially and carefully examined and weighed . ; It will not be denied , indeed , by any one , that re- ligious belief influences moral practice . Both reason and history ...
... reasons , and also the grounds of religious belief , will be impartially and carefully examined and weighed . ; It will not be denied , indeed , by any one , that re- ligious belief influences moral practice . Both reason and history ...
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... reason for inquiring very carefully which of them is true and which false . He who believes , for example , that there is a God , and he who believes that there is no being 1 By J. S. Mill , in the very essay in which he assailed ...
... reason for inquiring very carefully which of them is true and which false . He who believes , for example , that there is a God , and he who believes that there is no being 1 By J. S. Mill , in the very essay in which he assailed ...
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... reason , however , to complain at present that our scientific men are , as a class , wanting in the insight referred to , or that the truth . just indicated is imperfectly realised by them . Perhaps such complaint was never less ...
... reason , however , to complain at present that our scientific men are , as a class , wanting in the insight referred to , or that the truth . just indicated is imperfectly realised by them . Perhaps such complaint was never less ...
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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.