Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... force is the source of all things , and he who believes that nature originated in an intelligent , holy , and loving Will , -must look upon the world , upon history , and upon themselves so very differently - must think , feel , and act ...
... force is the source of all things , and he who believes that nature originated in an intelligent , holy , and loving Will , -must look upon the world , upon history , and upon themselves so very differently - must think , feel , and act ...
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... forces of a multitude of his contemporaries . The greatest men have achieved what they have done only because they have had the faculty and skill to utilise resources vastly greater than their own . Nothing reaches far for- ward into ...
... forces of a multitude of his contemporaries . The greatest men have achieved what they have done only because they have had the faculty and skill to utilise resources vastly greater than their own . Nothing reaches far for- ward into ...
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... force that the physical , mental , and moral order which they everywhere beheld implied no Supreme Intelligence and Will ; and the few who can believe it , have assuredly no right , simply on the ground of such ability , to assume that ...
... force that the physical , mental , and moral order which they everywhere beheld implied no Supreme Intelligence and Will ; and the few who can believe it , have assuredly no right , simply on the ground of such ability , to assume that ...
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... of mercy , while they superabound in a fierce intolerance . Allah is set before us with clearness , with force , with intense sincerity , as endowed with the natural attributes which we ascribe to God , but only so 44 Theism .
... of mercy , while they superabound in a fierce intolerance . Allah is set before us with clearness , with force , with intense sincerity , as endowed with the natural attributes which we ascribe to God , but only so 44 Theism .
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... be found in all the forces , laws , and arrange- ments of nature - in every material object , every or- ganism , every intellect and heart . At the same time , they concur and coalesce into a single all - compre- 62 Theism .
... be found in all the forces , laws , and arrange- ments of nature - in every material object , every or- ganism , every intellect and heart . At the same time , they concur and coalesce into a single all - compre- 62 Theism .
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