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When a writer , in a style however lucid and taking , firmly assumes that there is
no essential difference in two objects alike in material elements , but separated
by that mighty and mysterious thing , life , is that the height of wisdom or the depth
...
When a writer , in a style however lucid and taking , firmly assumes that there is
no essential difference in two objects alike in material elements , but separated
by that mighty and mysterious thing , life , is that the height of wisdom or the depth
...
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It abrogates the moral obligation to prove all things and hold fast that which is
good . It revolts from the great problem of life , which calls on us to know , and to
know that we may do . Out upon this apotheosis of doubt ! It is the sick man
glorying ...
It abrogates the moral obligation to prove all things and hold fast that which is
good . It revolts from the great problem of life , which calls on us to know , and to
know that we may do . Out upon this apotheosis of doubt ! It is the sick man
glorying ...
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... things in a lump when one of them is fully proved in detail . We have no
disposition even with so eminent an authority as St. George Mivart to denominate
Natural Selection “ a puerile hypothesis . " We will promise to pay our respects to
our ...
... things in a lump when one of them is fully proved in detail . We have no
disposition even with so eminent an authority as St. George Mivart to denominate
Natural Selection “ a puerile hypothesis . " We will promise to pay our respects to
our ...
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Fertile in theory , he preserved the truth of science so pure as “ in the sight of God
” not “ to write the very smallest thing as certain of which he was not fully
convinced , ” nor to overstrain the weight of a conjecture , nor even to cite as his
own the ...
Fertile in theory , he preserved the truth of science so pure as “ in the sight of God
” not “ to write the very smallest thing as certain of which he was not fully
convinced , ” nor to overstrain the weight of a conjecture , nor even to cite as his
own the ...
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... to the latest posterity ; and it is my last will , never to be revoked , and to God I
commit it ; and my only hope and confidence for the execution of it is in Him alone
who has already done great things for it , and does still own it as his cause .
... to the latest posterity ; and it is my last will , never to be revoked , and to God I
commit it ; and my only hope and confidence for the execution of it is in Him alone
who has already done great things for it , and does still own it as his cause .
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Page 117 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do ; the heads of them were two hundred ; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Anniversary Addresses |
| Author | Samuel Colcord Bartlett |
| Publisher | Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 517 pages |
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