The Christian ReligionChautauqua Press, 1886 - 114 páginas |
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... human intelligence , at its present grade of develop- ment , is incapable of exploring . We are not yet arrived at the summit where we can overlook the universe . Christianity is a practical system : its founder likened himself to a ...
... human intelligence , at its present grade of develop- ment , is incapable of exploring . We are not yet arrived at the summit where we can overlook the universe . Christianity is a practical system : its founder likened himself to a ...
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... human affairs . Lucretius wrote a poem to set forth the atomic theory of the universe , and thus to deliver men's minds from the terrors of superstition and all the gloom and torture of soul of which religion was the occasion . It ...
... human affairs . Lucretius wrote a poem to set forth the atomic theory of the universe , and thus to deliver men's minds from the terrors of superstition and all the gloom and torture of soul of which religion was the occasion . It ...
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... human nature , how powerful and ineradicable a feeling it is . In no other way can we account for its tremendous influ- ence , when unenlightened or morbid , for evil . Why not go for getting rid of the nervous system on account of ...
... human nature , how powerful and ineradicable a feeling it is . In no other way can we account for its tremendous influ- ence , when unenlightened or morbid , for evil . Why not go for getting rid of the nervous system on account of ...
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... human government are a curse . If the family had not existed , or were to be abolished , an unmeasured amount of petty tyranny , grinding toil , anguish at bereavement , would not have been , and would be no more . Then , as to human ...
... human government are a curse . If the family had not existed , or were to be abolished , an unmeasured amount of petty tyranny , grinding toil , anguish at bereavement , would not have been , and would be no more . Then , as to human ...
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... humanity not limited by barriers of nation and race . Yet utterances of this nature Lack of humane Feeling . are heard chiefly from the Stoic sect , —a sect which purchased tranquillity at the cost of sympathy , and , by smothering ...
... humanity not limited by barriers of nation and race . Yet utterances of this nature Lack of humane Feeling . are heard chiefly from the Stoic sect , —a sect which purchased tranquillity at the cost of sympathy , and , by smothering ...
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Página 40 - He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger : for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Página 44 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you: and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Página 82 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Página 67 - KNOW not a more rash or unphilosophical conduct of the understanding, than to reject the substance of a story, by reason of some diversity in the circumstances with which it is related. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth undercircumstantial variety.
Página 40 - For the LORD your God is God of gods, and LORD of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward...