 ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor I even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract...  Littell's Living Age - Page 5011874Full view - About this book
 | 1918 - 740 pages
...of Nazareth] as the ideal representative and guide of humanity," and declared his belief that " not even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...virtue from the abstract into the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life." To Mr. Morley this very moderate expression... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity : nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract to the concrete than to endeavor so to live as Christ would approve our life." II. He who would make... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...made a bad choice in pitching upon tiiis man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...find a better translation of the rule of virtue from tho abstract into the concrete than to endeavour so to live that Christ woTild approve our life. When... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 328 pages
...m;ule a ha I choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...this we add that, to the conception of the rational scep'ic, it remains a possibility that Christ actually was what he supposed himself to be — not God,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 280 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule.of .yirtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Chris.t. wpuldjapprpve... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life." Of course, the supernatural is here entirely eliminated from the man of Nazareth, as from all religion... | |
 | Theology - 1875 - 842 pages
...Christ is an historical person, and such an unique figure in history, that " even now it would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better...endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life" — nay, more, that "it remains a possibility, to the conception of the rational sceptic, that Christ... | |
 | Christianity - 1875 - 620 pages
...language."t With these spiritual ideas we may compare the statement in the essay on Theism : " It would not be easy even for an unbeliever to find a better translation...endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our lite."J Can there be much doubt that, had it not been for the shackles of early intellectual habit,... | |
 | Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into concrete, than 'to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life. — John Stuart Mill. _... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1875 - 664 pages
...interesting, and one may add encouraging, when John Stuart Mill admits that, even now, " it would not be easy for an unbeliever to find a better translation of...virtue, from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life," and " that the influences of religion on the... | |
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