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... apply . If just cause of offence is found in this book , it will be through some inadvertent neglect of this rule . The doctrine is quite just , that crude or incomplete works ought to 17 AUG 1028 LIBRARY PREFACE . An origin of Nature.
... apply . If just cause of offence is found in this book , it will be through some inadvertent neglect of this rule . The doctrine is quite just , that crude or incomplete works ought to 17 AUG 1028 LIBRARY PREFACE . An origin of Nature.
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... of offence is found in this book , it will be through some inadvertent neglect of this rule . The doctrine is quite just , that crude or incomplete works ought to be withheld from publication ; and the author reluctantly prints.
... of offence is found in this book , it will be through some inadvertent neglect of this rule . The doctrine is quite just , that crude or incomplete works ought to be withheld from publication ; and the author reluctantly prints.
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... doctrine of Peace - at - any - price ( which he has not , like Mr. Cobden , repudiated ) is altogether to be deplored ; but who in the House of Commons exceeded him in the will , the courage , or the power to rebuke an aristocracy in ...
... doctrine of Peace - at - any - price ( which he has not , like Mr. Cobden , repudiated ) is altogether to be deplored ; but who in the House of Commons exceeded him in the will , the courage , or the power to rebuke an aristocracy in ...
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... doctrines are not reconcileable with the rational dictates of reason and of moral justice . Consequently , I have come to the con- clusion that such a religion , containing , as it does , a great many absurd theories , such as the ...
... doctrines are not reconcileable with the rational dictates of reason and of moral justice . Consequently , I have come to the con- clusion that such a religion , containing , as it does , a great many absurd theories , such as the ...
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... doctrine of inspiration seduces many . Great names , paraded on the side of Christianism , attract numbers . The antiquity of a creed , the reputation of a preacher , the fashion- ableness of a congregation , draw others into the fold ...
... doctrine of inspiration seduces many . Great names , paraded on the side of Christianism , attract numbers . The antiquity of a creed , the reputation of a preacher , the fashion- ableness of a congregation , draw others into the fold ...
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Page 128 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 128 - Faith no longer supplies implicit confidence, and the practical tone of our day is impatient of that teaching which keeps the word of promise to the ear and breaks it to the hope.
Page 84 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. " He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Page 85 - All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness. Labour, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven.
Page 80 - ... so may be God. If he is not in absolute possession of all the propositions that constitute universal truth, the one which he wants may be, that there is a God. If he cannot, with certainty, assign the cause of all that he perceives to exist, that cause may be God. If he does not know...
Page 128 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallowed, and The freighting souls within her.
Page 85 - As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's "Bonduca," when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies — His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.
Page 160 - Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave a pause to care. Up springs, at every step, to claim a tear, Some little friendship formed and cherished here ; And not the lightest leaf, but trembling teems With golden visions and romantic dreams.
Page 55 - Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations ? or is it most likely that by continual modifications, due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still.
Page 56 - For, as our conception of a body is that of an unknown exciting cause of sensations, so our conception of a mind is that of an unknown recipient, or percipient, of them; and not of them alone, but of all our other feelings. As body is understood to be the mysterious something which excites the mind to feel, so mind is the mysterious something which feels and thinks.