Views of Religion, الجزء 1L. K. Washburn, 1906 - 783 من الصفحات |
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... better service done to Truth than to purge it of all things spurious . MONTAIGNE . It is not so much things that torment man as the opinion he has of things . LUCIAN . Never profess to believe what we know we do not believe . GOETHE ...
... better service done to Truth than to purge it of all things spurious . MONTAIGNE . It is not so much things that torment man as the opinion he has of things . LUCIAN . Never profess to believe what we know we do not believe . GOETHE ...
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... better is it that the offence come than the truth be concealed . RALPH WALDO EMERSON . I do not fear skepticism for any good soul . A just thinker will allow full sway to his skepticism . CUVIER . The good that we do men , however great ...
... better is it that the offence come than the truth be concealed . RALPH WALDO EMERSON . I do not fear skepticism for any good soul . A just thinker will allow full sway to his skepticism . CUVIER . The good that we do men , however great ...
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... better than the personal God of the theist . N. SCOTT . It is five hundred to one but that everyone is damned , because everyone damns all but itself and itself is damned by four hundred and ninety - nine . REV . T. FINCH . With few ...
... better than the personal God of the theist . N. SCOTT . It is five hundred to one but that everyone is damned , because everyone damns all but itself and itself is damned by four hundred and ninety - nine . REV . T. FINCH . With few ...
الصفحة 35
... better than our own . drunkenness , gambling and prostitution - the three curses of Chris- tian lands . MONTAIGNE . With most people nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known . K. P. FAURE . Our ideal women are no ...
... better than our own . drunkenness , gambling and prostitution - the three curses of Chris- tian lands . MONTAIGNE . With most people nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known . K. P. FAURE . Our ideal women are no ...
الصفحة 44
... offspring of a childlike fancy in a totally uncriti- cal age . REV . MINOT J. SAVAGE . No belief at all is better than a belief that God is heartless and cruel . E. J. PAINE . The general mark of advancement appears 44 VIEWS OF RELIGION .
... offspring of a childlike fancy in a totally uncriti- cal age . REV . MINOT J. SAVAGE . No belief at all is better than a belief that God is heartless and cruel . E. J. PAINE . The general mark of advancement appears 44 VIEWS OF RELIGION .
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الصفحة 44 - If we take in our hand any volume, of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
الصفحة 695 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
الصفحة 119 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 165 - To promote the increase of natural knowledge and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life to the best of my ability, in the conviction which has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength that there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
الصفحة 131 - Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
الصفحة 268 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life, That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro...
الصفحة 483 - It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
الصفحة 275 - And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently moves as you or I.
الصفحة 755 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
الصفحة 33 - Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone ; Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. While swings the sea, while mists the mountains shroud, While thunder's surges burst on cliffs of cloud, Still at the prophets