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... religion . " The law of develop- ment explains much , but not itself . 6. As science progresses , it draws nearer , in all ... religious value of this proof is transcendently great . Wherever science finds heat , light , electricity , it ...
... religion . " The law of develop- ment explains much , but not itself . 6. As science progresses , it draws nearer , in all ... religious value of this proof is transcendently great . Wherever science finds heat , light , electricity , it ...
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... religious science must borrow from physical science the scientific method . Religious science will not borrow what is her own . Aristotle affirms that it was in the search after moral truth that Socrates discovered definition and ...
... religious science must borrow from physical science the scientific method . Religious science will not borrow what is her own . Aristotle affirms that it was in the search after moral truth that Socrates discovered definition and ...
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... whom watch him more closely than the tiger watches its prey . I am not one of those who lie in wait to find fallacies in Darwin ; for it matters little to me , as a student of religious science , which one of the three 60 1 BIOLOGY .
... whom watch him more closely than the tiger watches its prey . I am not one of those who lie in wait to find fallacies in Darwin ; for it matters little to me , as a student of religious science , which one of the three 60 1 BIOLOGY .
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... religion . " No doubt it is to our credit that we study the newspapers ; but it is not to our credit that we do not better main- tain the best ones , and that we do not sift newspaper information a little more warily , and that some of ...
... religion . " No doubt it is to our credit that we study the newspapers ; but it is not to our credit that we do not better main- tain the best ones , and that we do not sift newspaper information a little more warily , and that some of ...
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... religious science occasionally gets his haughty hearing , it cannot on the Sabbath- day go into secular discussion with him , and you cannot hold his attention at first , except by secular discussion . You say that I am using this ...
... religious science occasionally gets his haughty hearing , it cannot on the Sabbath- day go into secular discussion with him , and you cannot hold his attention at first , except by secular discussion . You say that I am using this ...
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Page 288 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 22 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 129 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 315 - And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And, last of all, thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss ; And joy shall overtake us as a flood...
Page 285 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 272 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
Page 210 - MODERN PHYSICAL FATALISM, AND THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION. Including an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's "First Principles.
Page 21 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 35 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.