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... less insignificant opinions , like a fitful guerilla warfare on the flanks of a great army . Whereas what we really find on examining the evidence is , that out of a mass of opinions which for a long time fought as equals upon equal ...
... less insignificant opinions , like a fitful guerilla warfare on the flanks of a great army . Whereas what we really find on examining the evidence is , that out of a mass of opinions which for a long time fought as equals upon equal ...
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... less in the facts themselves than in the attitude of mind in which they are approached - I feel that I should fail of my purpose if I did not linger still upon the threshold to say something of the " personal equa- tion " . that we must ...
... less in the facts themselves than in the attitude of mind in which they are approached - I feel that I should fail of my purpose if I did not linger still upon the threshold to say something of the " personal equa- tion " . that we must ...
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... less antiquarian . Its ultimate result may be only to gratify our curiosity and to add to the stores of our knowledge . But Christianity claims to be a present guide of our lives . It has been so large a factor in the moral development ...
... less antiquarian . Its ultimate result may be only to gratify our curiosity and to add to the stores of our knowledge . But Christianity claims to be a present guide of our lives . It has been so large a factor in the moral development ...
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... less remotely its literary and philosophical features , and a complete investigation would take them all into account . But since life is short , and human powers are limited , it is necessary in this , as in many other studies , to be ...
... less remotely its literary and philosophical features , and a complete investigation would take them all into account . But since life is short , and human powers are limited , it is necessary in this , as in many other studies , to be ...
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... less instinctive than the tendency to become acquainted with the thoughts of those who have gone before us . But Greece on the one hand had lost political power , and on the other hand possessed in her splendid literature an inalienable ...
... less instinctive than the tendency to become acquainted with the thoughts of those who have gone before us . But Greece on the one hand had lost political power , and on the other hand possessed in her splendid literature an inalienable ...
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Page 170 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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Page 253 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 302 - We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David thy servant, which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.