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" Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling ; the passage from morality to religion is made when to morality is applied emotion. And the true meaning... "
Matthew Arnold and His Relation to the Thought of Our Time: An Appreciation ... - Page 181
by William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 450 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

1871 - 880 pages
...degree. Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, • enkindled, lit up by feeling...emotion. And the : true meaning of religion is thus not moral• iti/, but morality touched by emotion. And • this new elevation and inspiration of morality...
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The Theological review [ed. by C. Beard]., Volume 10

Charles Beard - 1873 - 478 pages
...degree. Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought, and human language in the use of words, is Ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling...simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."* But is there anything deserving to be called human morality that is altogether separable from emotion?...
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The Theological Review, Volume 10

1873 - 654 pages
...degree. Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought, and human language in the use of words, is Ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling...simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."* But is there anything deserving to be called human morality that is altogether separable from emotion...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 57-58

Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pages
...when he says ' the true meaning of religion is thus not simple morality, but morality touched l»j emotion. And this new elevation and inspiration of...philosophical disquisition, righteousness is the word for religion.' How, then, i.-i the touch of emotion applied necessary to transform morality into religion...
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Popular Objections to Revealed Truth: Considered in a Series of Lectures ...

1873 - 378 pages
...constant idea. We. agree with him also when he says that " the true meaning of religion is not simple morality, but morality touched by emotion ; and this...morality is well marked by the word righteousness." Now if the recognition of the personal, God of the Bible, if the fundamental dogmas of the Christian...
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Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Matthew Arnold - 1873 - 438 pages
...up by feeling ; the passage from moralityjQja])£ifln_i.s J made, when to moraUtxJs-JJ2Bh^i^mg.i^n. And the true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched bv emotion. And this new elevation and inspiration of morality is well marked by the word ' righteousness.'...
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Reasons for our faith, 6 lects. on modern misrepresentations of the ...

William Anderson - 1874 - 162 pages
...which religion borrows from the affections. He would supply their place by the emotions. Thus (p. 21), "The passage from morality to religion is " made,...emotion. And this new elevation and inspiration of out the belief in God as a Person, the very best and noblest part of our nature would be left as destitute...
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The Southern Review, Volume 15, Issue 30

1874 - 256 pages
...degree. Keligion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling...is thus not simply morality, but morality touched with emotion.' (p. 46.) The italics are his. The new religion, then, is no religion at all, in any...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 59-60

Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...the very lowest computation' in three-fourths of human life is regulated by religion. Religion then ' is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling;...religion is made when to morality is applied emotion.' The evolutionary hypothesis which we have seen is the fundamental principle of Strauss's latest scheme...
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Popular objections to revealed truth, considered in a ser. of lectures

Popular objections - 1874 - 380 pages
...constant idea. We agree with him also when he says that " the true meaning of religion is not simple morality, but morality touched by emotion; and this...morality is well marked by the word righteousness." Now if the recognition of the personal God of the Bible, if the fundamental dogmas of the Christian...
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