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... faith of the multitude must be pledged to a single power or government . To accomplish this , a new civilization must arise , and whether it can arise out of any thing short of the ruins of the old , is the question which presses upon ...
... faith of the multitude must be pledged to a single power or government . To accomplish this , a new civilization must arise , and whether it can arise out of any thing short of the ruins of the old , is the question which presses upon ...
Page xiv
... faith or to reason alone ; they must appeal with equal force to both . Christianity is a religion of faith . It is admitted far and wide , and among its most devout followers , that it cannot sustain itself against the keen analysis of ...
... faith or to reason alone ; they must appeal with equal force to both . Christianity is a religion of faith . It is admitted far and wide , and among its most devout followers , that it cannot sustain itself against the keen analysis of ...
Page xv
... faith . Their redemption is postponed until the empire of time and space shall have passed away . Philosophy takes none of these advantages ; it stoops to no such disingenuous methods . It sounds the alarm of a fleeting existence , it ...
... faith . Their redemption is postponed until the empire of time and space shall have passed away . Philosophy takes none of these advantages ; it stoops to no such disingenuous methods . It sounds the alarm of a fleeting existence , it ...
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... Faith - The Doctrines of Jesus - A Glance at the Present State of Christianity in America . XXIII . THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY . An Ultimate Analysis Essential to an Understanding of Morality - The Scope of Moral Perceptions - The Effect ...
... Faith - The Doctrines of Jesus - A Glance at the Present State of Christianity in America . XXIII . THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY . An Ultimate Analysis Essential to an Understanding of Morality - The Scope of Moral Perceptions - The Effect ...
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... faith . It is , therefore , to the younger class of think- ers that we must appeal , -thinkers who have not committed themselves too deeply , who are open to conviction , who are hospitable to new truths when they are clearly stated and ...
... faith . It is , therefore , to the younger class of think- ers that we must appeal , -thinkers who have not committed themselves too deeply , who are open to conviction , who are hospitable to new truths when they are clearly stated and ...
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Page 476 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 346 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 252 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 134 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Page 394 - I lived in truth, and fed my soul with justice. What I did to men was done in peace, and how I loved G-od, God and my heart well know. I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger. I honored the gods with sacrifices, and the dead with offerings.
Page 128 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally ; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after : so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Page 420 - Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death?
Page 406 - He who by His might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds which gave strength and lit the sacrifice, He who is God above all gods. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice...
Page 476 - If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that 1 go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 89 - For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal.