 I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ;...  An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - Page 326by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1904 - 22 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. — the not entertaining...assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. For the evidence that any proposition is true (except such as are self-evident), lying only in the... | |
 | Jonathan Brierley - Christian life - 1907 - 360 pages
...discussing the love of truth in men, he says : " And I think there is this one unerring mark of it, namely, the not entertaining any proposition with greater...assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." Theologians of a certain school have exclaimed loudly at this thesis, but it will hold water. And that... | |
 | Burnett Hillman Streeter - Religion - 1912 - 560 pages
...canon : " There is one unerring mark by which a man may know whether he is a lover of truth in earnest, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant." : E. Final reasons for asserting the goodness of the 1 A most moving Illustration... | |
 | Arthur James Balfour - Philosophy - 1915 - 298 pages
...that " there is one unerring mark by which a man may know whether he is a lover of truth in earnest, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant." Upon which Leslie Stephen observes that the sentiment is a platitude, but, in view... | |
 | Ambrose Leo Suhrie - Education - 1915 - 78 pages
...not, however, serve the interests of educational science if there be any disposition "to entertain a proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." It is believed that the educational seminar whose membership is constituted as above suggested on a... | |
 | Ambrose Leo Suhrie - Education - 1915 - 72 pages
...not, however, serve the interests of educational science if there be any disposition "to entertain a proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." It is believed that the educational seminar whose membership is constituted as above suggested on a... | |
 | Theology - 1916 - 688 pages
...of it. Leslie Stephen then is obliged to abandon his fundamental principle, borrowed from Locke, of "not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant," before he has any science to accept. Lecture VII shows that the most fruitful principles... | |
 | Sterling Power Lamprecht - 1918 - 186 pages
...fancy "are apt to disturb and depress the rational power of the mind," 4 and lead them to entertain a proposition "with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." 5 Locke maintained that no form of enthusiasm is more dangerous than resorting to alleged innate ideas... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Fiction - 1920 - 300 pages
...unerring mark,' he says, ' by which a man may know whether he is a lover of truth in earnest, namely, the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant.' Newman himself quotes this dictum, and argues against it that men do, as a matter... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. Whatsoever credit or authority we give to any proposition, more... | |
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