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... merely a delusion or mental disease - its history is merely the history of a delusion or disease , and any science of it possible is merely a part of mental pathology . Further , whether Christianity be a reasonable creed or not ...
... merely a delusion or mental disease - its history is merely the history of a delusion or disease , and any science of it possible is merely a part of mental pathology . Further , whether Christianity be a reasonable creed or not ...
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... merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be credited with the evil as well as with the good which has followed it ; and all the unprofitable sufferings and useless privations - all the undefined terrors ...
... merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be credited with the evil as well as with the good which has followed it ; and all the unprofitable sufferings and useless privations - all the undefined terrors ...
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... merely have required to open our eyes in order to see it . Rousseau only showed how imperfectly he realised the dependence of man on man , and the extent to which tradition enters into all our thinking , when he pretended that a human ...
... merely have required to open our eyes in order to see it . Rousseau only showed how imperfectly he realised the dependence of man on man , and the extent to which tradition enters into all our thinking , when he pretended that a human ...
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... merely or even mainly a tradi- tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that it is not ...
... merely or even mainly a tradi- tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that it is not ...
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... merely the function of passively accepting , retaining , and transmitting them . They have conceived of the first man as receiving the knowledge of God by sensible con- verse with Him , and of the knowledge thus re- ceived as ...
... merely the function of passively accepting , retaining , and transmitting them . They have conceived of the first man as receiving the knowledge of God by sensible con- verse with Him , and of the knowledge thus re- ceived as ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
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