Religion and Progress: An EssayE.P. Dutton, 1876 - 82 páginas |
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... less potent when applied to the encroachments of scientific on religious thought . In their last analysis they are both the products of the same law of change , the same principle of gradual growth , the same indestructible long . ing ...
... less potent when applied to the encroachments of scientific on religious thought . In their last analysis they are both the products of the same law of change , the same principle of gradual growth , the same indestructible long . ing ...
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... carefully we study the laws of our spiritual , no less than our intellectual , develop- ment , the more evident will it be that we can- not permit the existence of the odium theologi- cum without RELIGION AND PROGRESS . 7.
... carefully we study the laws of our spiritual , no less than our intellectual , develop- ment , the more evident will it be that we can- not permit the existence of the odium theologi- cum without RELIGION AND PROGRESS . 7.
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... less oppressive than the nightmare of super- stition . In one sense , it would be an act of in- tellectual suicide to raise a hue and cry against science . because it compels us to change our views of God and Nature . In another sense ...
... less oppressive than the nightmare of super- stition . In one sense , it would be an act of in- tellectual suicide to raise a hue and cry against science . because it compels us to change our views of God and Nature . In another sense ...
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... less cause will we have for fear ; but it is not true that the more we know , the feebler must be our hope . The scientific statement that God is unknowable , may , for the moment , stagger our faith and diminish our re- ligious ...
... less cause will we have for fear ; but it is not true that the more we know , the feebler must be our hope . The scientific statement that God is unknowable , may , for the moment , stagger our faith and diminish our re- ligious ...
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... less than the verdict of religion , will be , that He who " laid the foundations of the earth , and shut up the sea with doors , saying , Hitherto shalt thou come , but no further , " is also He who " hath put wisdom in the inward parts ...
... less than the verdict of religion , will be , that He who " laid the foundations of the earth , and shut up the sea with doors , saying , Hitherto shalt thou come , but no further , " is also He who " hath put wisdom in the inward parts ...
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Página 35 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Página 35 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Página 70 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened; Listen to this simple story, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Página 63 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream; but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Página 34 - I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
Página 34 - I dimly guess from blessings known Of greater out of sight, And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right.
Página 35 - O brothers! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray, Pray for me that my feet may gain The sure and safer way. And Thou, O Lord! by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean My human heart on Thee!
Página 31 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, "Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence...
Página 49 - Shall I be left forgotten in the dust, When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive ? Shall Nature's voice, to man alone unjust, Bid him, though doom'd to perish, hope to live ? Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive With disappointment, penury, and pain ? No : Heaven's immortal Spring shall yet arrive, And man's majestic beauty bloom again, Bright through th' eternal year of Love's triumphant reign.
Página 57 - Her thinkers are again beginning to see, what they had only temporarily forgotten, that a true Psychology is the indispensable scientific basis of Morals, of Politics, of the science and art of Education; that the difficulties of Metaphysics lie at the root of all science...