The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theism |
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... universe as mechanism , substitute the idea of or ganic growth in carrying out their theory . - III . Scientific Evolution consistent with personality of man and God . 1. It does not involve ma- terialism . 2. Not inconsistent with ...
... universe as mechanism , substitute the idea of or ganic growth in carrying out their theory . - III . Scientific Evolution consistent with personality of man and God . 1. It does not involve ma- terialism . 2. Not inconsistent with ...
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... universe is the expression of the truths , laws and ideals of Absolute Reason and the progressive realization of the ends which reason approves as worthy . The constitution of the universe therefore expresses these archetypal principles ...
... universe is the expression of the truths , laws and ideals of Absolute Reason and the progressive realization of the ends which reason approves as worthy . The constitution of the universe therefore expresses these archetypal principles ...
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... universe , is unknowable , is contradictory to reason and knowledge . If the true and ultimate reality is unknowable all reality is unknowable ; what we take for reality is merely phenomenon , and what we take for know- ledge is merely ...
... universe , is unknowable , is contradictory to reason and knowledge . If the true and ultimate reality is unknowable all reality is unknowable ; what we take for reality is merely phenomenon , and what we take for know- ledge is merely ...
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... universe and is the ground of all that is , may be unreason and not reason , may be the con- trary of all which we know as true , right , perfect and good , may be the antagonist of all which human reason approves as the objects of our ...
... universe and is the ground of all that is , may be unreason and not reason , may be the con- trary of all which we know as true , right , perfect and good , may be the antagonist of all which human reason approves as the objects of our ...
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... universe is to give realization to their highest hopes , satisfaction to what is best in their affections , scope for their noblest endeavors , their lives must be more than " little breezes " which " " dusk and shiver Through the wave ...
... universe is to give realization to their highest hopes , satisfaction to what is best in their affections , scope for their noblest endeavors , their lives must be more than " little breezes " which " " dusk and shiver Through the wave ...
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Page 240 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 192 - I am surpriz'd to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible ; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 97 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 328 - ... if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy ; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge ; but (having regard to God) no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 192 - ... no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis necessary that it...
Page 342 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 224 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side...
Page 342 - Achilles ponders in his tent. The kings of modern thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come.
Page 382 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 390 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.