 | 1874 - 596 pages
...are altogether incompatible with theories of existence which terminate 'in blank materialism ; in ' a stream of tendency by which all things fulfil ' the law of their being ; ' in a self-contained cycle of evolution ; or in a pantheism of which we are indeed the elements,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...— to defend his own recent definition of the scientific substratum of tlie word " God" as that " stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being," — a definition on which we commented at the time he first published it in his remarkable essays on... | |
 | Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
...become what it was meant to be. Now we are told by a high authority that, "for science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." For faith God is more than this, but it is worth something to know that for science he is as much as... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1873 - 478 pages
...parting with all its power, have been reduced for them to the scientific expression, " that God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." Would Abraham, or David, or Isaiah, have recognized it as a real account of their religious consciousness,... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pages
...its presumption, that Science can even verify the absolute, because " it can prove the existence of a stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their Recent British Philosophy. Professor Masson. being," and that " there is a power not ourselves which... | |
 | 1872 - 356 pages
...universal law, necessarily weaken in the least degree our faith in a personal, an ever-ruling Deity. " The stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being," to use Mr. Arnold's scientific definition of God, is not God, but the evidence of God's ever-active... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Religion - 1872 - 472 pages
...us put the two elements which we have arrived at together — let us see how they read. ist. God is the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being. 2nd. God is the enduring power which makes for righteousness. Have we not thus fairly reached an External... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...righteousness ;" or, more definitely still, the enduring power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." These are the forms under which he conceives the Divine,...language of religious experience. We say nothing in the mean time of the value of these definitions, or whether they have any claim to stand for what our author... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...righteousness ;" or, more definitely still, the enduring power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." These are the forms under which he conceives the Divine,...language of religious experience. We say nothing in the mean time of the value of these definitions, or whether they have any claim to stand for what our author... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...quit of dogma so far. God is for him — not a person or a cause (this is to anthropomorphize) — but the " Eternal," or " enduring Power not ourselves...language of religious experience. We say nothing in the mean time of the value of these definitions, or whether they have any claim to stand for what our anthor... | |
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Governor of the universe," is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being... 
