God and the Future Life : the Reasonableness of ChristianityHarper, 1883 - Всего страниц: 228 |
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... selfish and merely animal existence . The man who does this can only drift . He is the creature of his impulses and of his fears , as are the animals . We have been left intellectually free to believe as seems to us most reasonable and ...
... selfish and merely animal existence . The man who does this can only drift . He is the creature of his impulses and of his fears , as are the animals . We have been left intellectually free to believe as seems to us most reasonable and ...
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... selfish enjoyments , to brutal or merely ani- mal lives ; they avoid duty and self - sacrifice , and seek satisfaction in a scramble for wealth , fashion , ambition , or ease . You may object that there are men who , reject- ing God and ...
... selfish enjoyments , to brutal or merely ani- mal lives ; they avoid duty and self - sacrifice , and seek satisfaction in a scramble for wealth , fashion , ambition , or ease . You may object that there are men who , reject- ing God and ...
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... selfishness takes the place of duty where men cease to believe in a future life ; how all the barriers of restraint ... selfish ambitions of the strong , as the protection of the weak , and the consoler of the unfortunate ; and because ...
... selfishness takes the place of duty where men cease to believe in a future life ; how all the barriers of restraint ... selfish ambitions of the strong , as the protection of the weak , and the consoler of the unfortunate ; and because ...
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... selfish and unscrupulous , and you detest him . But why should you ? It was by the use of superior cunning that he gained the object nearest his heart - great wealth . Why should he not do this ? It was necessary to his happiness to 88 ...
... selfish and unscrupulous , and you detest him . But why should you ? It was by the use of superior cunning that he gained the object nearest his heart - great wealth . Why should he not do this ? It was necessary to his happiness to 88 ...
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... selfishness violates the moral law ; but why should he observe the moral law ? There is no penalty here , in this life , for its breach . Society , you say , will go to pieces if such mere self - seeking becomes the rule , and if , to ...
... selfishness violates the moral law ; but why should he observe the moral law ? There is no penalty here , in this life , for its breach . Society , you say , will go to pieces if such mere self - seeking becomes the rule , and if , to ...
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Стр. 59 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 103 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Стр. 9 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not 1 let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
Стр. 108 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Стр. 107 - Then Jesus beholding him, loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Стр. 132 - Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Стр. 227 - So far am I from accepting Kant's doctrine that space is a necessary form of thought, that I regard it as an accident, and an impediment to pure logical reasoning. Material existences must exist in space no doubt, but intellectual existences may be neither in space nor out of space ; they may have no relation to space at all, just as space itself has no relation to time. For all that I can see, then, there may be intellectual existences to which both time and space are nullities.
Стр. 213 - That term will be fifty thousand and one : the same regular succession will continue; the five-millionth and the fiftymillionth term will still appear in their expected order; and one unbroken chain of natural numbers will pass before your eyes, from one up to one hundred million. True...
Стр. 78 - Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?