The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of Modern Science, and as an Aid to Advanced Christian PhilosophyG.P. Putnam, 1872 - Всего страниц: 543 |
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... operations ? Does it not demonstrate to us that mind will advance as well as com- merce , that goodness may communicate with goodness between the ends of the world , that the souls of men are now put into nearer rela- tionship , that ...
... operations ? Does it not demonstrate to us that mind will advance as well as com- merce , that goodness may communicate with goodness between the ends of the world , that the souls of men are now put into nearer rela- tionship , that ...
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... operations of nature to the existence of an in- telligent cause . By him it is adroitly and speci- ously argued that in reasoning about an agent or being wholly unlike all we have hitherto known , our inferences must be strictly ...
... operations of nature to the existence of an in- telligent cause . By him it is adroitly and speci- ously argued that in reasoning about an agent or being wholly unlike all we have hitherto known , our inferences must be strictly ...
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... operations are coextensive with the entire Cosmos . We are apt to forget these truths when we attribute any one single force or activity of matter , any one grand natural phe- nomenon , or any particular organization to Him as His ...
... operations are coextensive with the entire Cosmos . We are apt to forget these truths when we attribute any one single force or activity of matter , any one grand natural phe- nomenon , or any particular organization to Him as His ...
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... the reason of man , in its ordinary and normal operation , as the supreme criterion of religious truth . " He declares the principles of this vulgar Rationalism to be that " all the excellence of which DIVINE ATTRIBUTES KNOWABLE . 127.
... the reason of man , in its ordinary and normal operation , as the supreme criterion of religious truth . " He declares the principles of this vulgar Rationalism to be that " all the excellence of which DIVINE ATTRIBUTES KNOWABLE . 127.
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... operations in them . The more fully and freely we exer- cise ourselves in the development of our highest faculties , the nearer do we approach to that perfection which consists in identification with God . We shall be freed from the ...
... operations in them . The more fully and freely we exer- cise ourselves in the development of our highest faculties , the nearer do we approach to that perfection which consists in identification with God . We shall be freed from the ...
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Стр. 49 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness ; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it unto them.
Стр. 264 - 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. 510 - True love in this differs from gold and • clay, That to divide is not to take away.
Стр. 264 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 113 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Стр. 313 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Стр. 32 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Стр. 33 - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner ho can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Стр. 227 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 99 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?