The Theological Review, Volume 11Whitfield, Green & Son, 1874 - Christianity |
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... regards his action , from the young robin which cruelly pecks to death the robin two generations older than himself . An equally wide - spread and similar impulse may fairly be assumed to account for actions so nearly identical in ...
... regards his action , from the young robin which cruelly pecks to death the robin two generations older than himself . An equally wide - spread and similar impulse may fairly be assumed to account for actions so nearly identical in ...
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difference is , that , as regards the savage , it would seem that Custom ( which must have originally sprung out of an instinct , or at least have been in harmony with it ) has so long been stereotyped , that the act of human parricide ...
difference is , that , as regards the savage , it would seem that Custom ( which must have originally sprung out of an instinct , or at least have been in harmony with it ) has so long been stereotyped , that the act of human parricide ...
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... regards the no less horrible crime of cruelty prac- tised by both men and women ( especially as step - parents ) upon children , it may be always observed that from the moment in which an unfortunate little creature has fallen behind ...
... regards the no less horrible crime of cruelty prac- tised by both men and women ( especially as step - parents ) upon children , it may be always observed that from the moment in which an unfortunate little creature has fallen behind ...
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... regards feeling or duty . The step over this barrier of race , when it begins to be taken , is an enormous stride ; and we may see how it was felt as such even by the writers of the New Testament . This subject , however , is far too ...
... regards feeling or duty . The step over this barrier of race , when it begins to be taken , is an enormous stride ; and we may see how it was felt as such even by the writers of the New Testament . This subject , however , is far too ...
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... regards local and national extension , the just proportion between the near and the remote , the con- cerns of our countrymen and those of others , is very far from being represented by the various degrees of interest manifested by the ...
... regards local and national extension , the just proportion between the near and the remote , the con- cerns of our countrymen and those of others , is very far from being represented by the various degrees of interest manifested by the ...
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Page 393 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 301 - THOU hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed, no man knows, I see from far Thy beauteous light, Inly I sigh for Thy repose; My heart is pained, nor can it be At rest, till it finds rest in Thee.
Page 56 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 225 - I can discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other...
Page 280 - GODKIN (James). The Religious History of Ireland : Primitive, Papal, and Protestant. Including the Evangelical Missions, Catholic Agitations, and Church Progress of the last half Century.
Page 238 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity...
Page 187 - He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power with perfect goodness and righteousness.
Page 224 - It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.
Page 229 - To my mind, therefore, the a or nucleus vanishes, and the substance consists of the powers or m ; and indeed what notion can we form of the nucleus independent of its powers ? all our perception and knowledge of the atom, and even our fancy, is limited to ideas of its powers : what thought remains on which, to hang the imagination of an a independent of the acknowledged forces...