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Men often speak , indeed , as if the exercise of faith was excluded from their condition as inhabi- tants of the present world . But it requires but a very slight consideration to show that the boasted prerogative of reason is here also ...
Men often speak , indeed , as if the exercise of faith was excluded from their condition as inhabi- tants of the present world . But it requires but a very slight consideration to show that the boasted prerogative of reason is here also ...
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The mind , on such oc- casions , takes itself ( if we may so speak ) into its own hands , turns itself about as a savage would a watch , or a monkey a letter ; interrogates itself , listens to the echo of its own voice , and is obliged ...
The mind , on such oc- casions , takes itself ( if we may so speak ) into its own hands , turns itself about as a savage would a watch , or a monkey a letter ; interrogates itself , listens to the echo of its own voice , and is obliged ...
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... leaves them to receive by faith many things which of whom do not scruple to speak slightingly he cannot explain to them if he would , till they of the evidences which substantiate Christianity ; get older ; many things which he can ...
... leaves them to receive by faith many things which of whom do not scruple to speak slightingly he cannot explain to them if he would , till they of the evidences which substantiate Christianity ; get older ; many things which he can ...
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... and regard the New Testament , and pleased universally to cheat itself into that belief . speak of it , exactly as they would of Homer's He was far too wise to tie himself to the proof “ Iliad , ” or Virgil's " Æneid .
... and regard the New Testament , and pleased universally to cheat itself into that belief . speak of it , exactly as they would of Homer's He was far too wise to tie himself to the proof “ Iliad , ” or Virgil's " Æneid .
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A refinement of modern philosophy often leads our rationalist to speak depreciatingly , if not con- temptuously , of what he calls a stereotyped reve- lation - revelation in a " book . " It ties down , he is fond of saying , the spirit ...
A refinement of modern philosophy often leads our rationalist to speak depreciatingly , if not con- temptuously , of what he calls a stereotyped reve- lation - revelation in a " book . " It ties down , he is fond of saying , the spirit ...
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