 | 1914 - 530 pages
...be cared for good and evil. He is a memorable instance of the truth of Coleridge's aphorism that ' he who begins by ' loving Christianity better than...his own sect or Church better than Christianity.' Toleration was ideal ; but what if it brought evil as well as good, if it destroyed the unity of the... | |
 | 1826 - 576 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following:— APHORISM XXV. He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth,...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." We are quite of opinion that these last aphorisms, the former by... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 450 pages
...my own conviction the following : APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity better than II Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church ' better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXIV. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 404 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following : APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity, better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. THE ABSENCE OF BISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 388 pages
...truth. I will venture to add in my own name and from my own conviction the following: APHORISM XXV. He, who begins by loving Christianity, better than...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. APHORISM XXVI. THE ABSENCE OF DISPUTES, AND A GENERAL AVERSION TO... | |
 | 1841 - 586 pages
...And partizanship soon leads to selfishness; for as Coleridge has said, " He who begins by loving even Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving...own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."* I do not think, then, that those who fill the so-called Liberal... | |
 | 1842 - 1046 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle, in... | |
 | 1842 - 508 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle, in... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1842 - 518 pages
...arguments of a transcendentalizing theology. " He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving' himself better than all." Not such has been the faith of the real martyrs to principle,... | |
 | James Martineau - 1845 - 188 pages
...Gathercole's for his Church, exemplify two out of the three steps indicated in the Aphorism of Coleridge: " He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."—Aids to Reflection. Moral and Religious Aph. XXV. Note 2. " The... | |
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. 
