 ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract...  Reminiscences - Page 478by Lyman Abbott - 1915 - 509 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor I even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...virtue from the abstract into the concrete ! than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life. When to this we add that, to the conception... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 702 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life. When to this we add that, to the conception... | |
 | 1918 - 740 pages
...[Jesus of Nazareth] as the ideal representative and guide of humanity," and declared his belief that " not even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life." To Mr. Morley this very moderate expression of faith hi Christ seemed an act of intellectual apostasy,... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity : nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract to the concrete than to endeavor so to live as Christ would approve our life." II. He who would make... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...made a bad choice in pitching upon tiiis man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...find a better translation of the rule of virtue from tho abstract into the concrete than to endeavour so to live that Christ woTild approve our life. When... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 328 pages
...m;ule a ha I choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life. When to this we add that, to the conception... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 280 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor, even now, would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule.of .yirtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Chris.t. wpuldjapprpve... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1875 - 664 pages
...interesting, and one may add encouraging, when John Stuart Mill admits that, even now, " it would not be easy for an unbeliever to find a better translation of...endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life," and " that the influences of religion on the character which will remain after rational criticism has... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever,...virtue from the abstract into the concrete than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life." Of course, the supernatural is here entirely... | |
 | Christianity - 1875 - 620 pages
...language."t With these spiritual ideas we may compare the statement in the essay on Theism : " It would not be easy even for an unbeliever to find a better translation...virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our lite."J Can there be much doubt that, had it not... | |
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