Religion and Progress: An EssayE.P. Dutton, 1876 - 82 páginas |
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... Reduced to its last analysis , the assertion that God is unknowable is a simple absurdity , and can only exist where scientists and philosophers are wilfully blind to the first principles of rea- soning . It is one thing for scientists ...
... Reduced to its last analysis , the assertion that God is unknowable is a simple absurdity , and can only exist where scientists and philosophers are wilfully blind to the first principles of rea- soning . It is one thing for scientists ...
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... he is surrounded by a mysterious Power which he cannot reduce to the dimen- sions of pure reason . It is only a question of time when the most gigantic intellects will feel themselves bound RELIGION AND PROGRESS . 21.
... he is surrounded by a mysterious Power which he cannot reduce to the dimen- sions of pure reason . It is only a question of time when the most gigantic intellects will feel themselves bound RELIGION AND PROGRESS . 21.
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... reduce everything to a mathematical certainty , to ask us how we know that this sentiment or act of faith indicates anything more than an illusory phase of our consciousness . Excluding , for the moment , the evidences of revealed relig ...
... reduce everything to a mathematical certainty , to ask us how we know that this sentiment or act of faith indicates anything more than an illusory phase of our consciousness . Excluding , for the moment , the evidences of revealed relig ...
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... reduced to scientific generalization ; but this , while it proves the necessarily slow progress of the science of the soul , in contrast to the rapid advance of phys- ical science , proves also the necessity of concen- trating all our ...
... reduced to scientific generalization ; but this , while it proves the necessarily slow progress of the science of the soul , in contrast to the rapid advance of phys- ical science , proves also the necessity of concen- trating all our ...
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... reduced it to silence , there has still remained with it the indestructible consciousness of a truth which , however faulty the mode in which it has been expressed , was yet a truth beyond cavil . . The truly religious element of ...
... reduced it to silence , there has still remained with it the indestructible consciousness of a truth which , however faulty the mode in which it has been expressed , was yet a truth beyond cavil . . The truly religious element of ...
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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...