 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Psychology - 1851 - 430 pages
...stupid as not to perceive the necessity of a fundamental matter, form, and law ; and says therefore that even that school which is most accused of atheism...demonstrate religion : that is, the school of Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus. The forms and laws of nature Bacon sometimes calls the Mind of Nature ; and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and Deity." The greatest and wisest men are always ready to repeat the sublime words of Newton, and count themselves... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." — Bacon's Essays. human history, we are bound to class with all that is instinctive in our spiritual... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - Faith - 1852 - 552 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." Ib., Essays Cioil and Moral, Essay 16, Of Atheism. CXV.— p. 13i. Those inconsistencies and contradictions... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1852 - 698 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest on them, and go no further: but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." • SEVEN PROPERTIES OF SCRIPTUBE. The properties of Scripture may be summarily enumerated as follows... | |
 | 1852 - 448 pages
...causes :cattered, it may sometimes rest on them and ;o no further; but when it beholdeth the :hain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." GENEROUS NEWSPAPERS. — Four of the Albany newspapers were competitors for the ublication of the legal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...and go no further : but when it beholdeth the Chain of them, confederate and linked together, it muft needs fly to Providence and Deity. Nay, even that School, which is moft accufed of Atheifm, doth moft demonftrate Religion ; that is, the School of Leucippus, and Democritus,... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but, when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. * * The Scripture saith, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God ; " it is not said, "The... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together,...most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leticippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus. For it is n thousand times more credible, that four mutable... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 428 pages
...beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and to Deity. Nay, even that school which is most accused...demonstrate religion, that is, the school of Leucippus, and Deinocritus, and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible that four mutable elements, and... | |
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It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but... 
