The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 24D. Appleton, 1884 |
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... direction and character of faith . The religious capacities common to all men evolve a stock of religious feeling which lies latent and fluent , as it were , in the soul - like an electric charge in the battery - until some expe ...
... direction and character of faith . The religious capacities common to all men evolve a stock of religious feeling which lies latent and fluent , as it were , in the soul - like an electric charge in the battery - until some expe ...
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... direction and variety to religious conceptions . While I regard it as a grave error to derive religion solely from these morbid phenomena , nevertheless they have undoubt- edly done much in awakening the spiritual powers of man , and in ...
... direction and variety to religious conceptions . While I regard it as a grave error to derive religion solely from these morbid phenomena , nevertheless they have undoubt- edly done much in awakening the spiritual powers of man , and in ...
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... directions in the religious field . According as the metaphysics of a people varies — following the empiric or the intuitive , the positive or the idealistic type - so will its religion vary . See , e . g . , what a dif- ferent thing ...
... directions in the religious field . According as the metaphysics of a people varies — following the empiric or the intuitive , the positive or the idealistic type - so will its religion vary . See , e . g . , what a dif- ferent thing ...
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... direction from , some philosophic current . Aristotle , e . g . , did more to determine the spe- cial phase of medieval Christendom than any of its popes . These four philosophers , Kant , Hegel , Stuart Mill , and Herbert Spencer , sur ...
... direction from , some philosophic current . Aristotle , e . g . , did more to determine the spe- cial phase of medieval Christendom than any of its popes . These four philosophers , Kant , Hegel , Stuart Mill , and Herbert Spencer , sur ...
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... direction . For generations there have been some few students of science who have esteemed the study of nature the most noble of pursuits . Some have been wealthy , and some poor ; but they have all had one thing in common - the love of ...
... direction . For generations there have been some few students of science who have esteemed the study of nature the most noble of pursuits . Some have been wealthy , and some poor ; but they have all had one thing in common - the love of ...
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Page 659 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 523 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 351 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 659 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 62 - A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which or its vital phenomena depend on the one hand on its construction and on the other on the energy supplied to it ; and to speak of vitality as anything but the name for a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock.
Page 348 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man, is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 474 - Thus there is no escape from the admission that in calling good the conduct which subserves life, and bad the conduct which hinders or destroys it, and in so implying that life is a blessing and not a curse, we are inevitably asserting that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful.
Page 226 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
Page 796 - Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 345 - ... they did not commit ; the damning of all men who do not avail themselves of an alleged mode of obtaining forgiveness, which most men have never heard of; and the effecting a reconciliation by sacrificing a son who was perfectly innocent, to satisfy the assumed necessity for a propitiatory victim, are modes of action which, ascribed to a human ruler, would call forth expressions of abhorrence...