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" Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer. "
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch - Page lxv
by Bernard Shaw - 1921 - 300 pages
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 5

1827 - 566 pages
...society, the first foundation of truth and justice ; the check of the wicked, the hope of the righteous. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." The Treantrer of the Trustees of the General Attembty of the Presbyterian Ckurch acknowledges the receipt...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 2

1833 - 742 pages
...flowery speech, that so convinced was he of the necessity for a deity, as a moral governor of the world, that, " if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent his existence." This master-stroke of policy, as he no doubt considered it, was but the precursor of...
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The Living Age, Volume 330

1926 - 794 pages
...to see behind us when you have only given us eyes in front. Small-minded people are always repeating that if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. They must have a cause for the universe, and they invent one in their own image. If everything requires...
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Historic Fancies

George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe Strangford (Viscount) - 1844 - 396 pages
...hour more and more attached to the moral and political views which I have ventured to present to you. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." Horrible as this blasphemy seems to us, in a land which is blest and sanctioned by the Church's presence,...
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The Life of Maximilien Robespierre: With Extracts from His Unpublished ...

George Henry Lewes - 1849 - 412 pages
...or a faithless defender of humanity. I am even more strongly attached to moral than political truth. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. I speak here in a tribune where the impudent Guadet dared to accuse me of having pronounced the word...
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France and Its Revolutions: A Pictorial History 1789-1848

George Long - 1850 - 704 pages
...humanity : I am only the more attached to the moral and political notions which I have expounded to you : if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him : I speak in a tribune where the shameless Guadet dared to make it a charge against me that I had uttered...
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The Settler's New Home : Or, Whether to Go, and Whither? Being a Guide to ...

Sid Smith - 1850 - 304 pages
...ric* IP that which is trne cannot be profane, Voltaire may almost he pardoned for the sentiment, " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." "Man never is, but always to be blest;" he cannot live in the now and the here ; he must fill the heart's...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 52

1858 - 860 pages
...obliged to invent a religion. What happened in France before has happened again. Voltaire's saying — "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him," has come true a second time, within fifty years. In the month of July, 1851, a new religion was founded...
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The Record. Containing reports of evanjelical [sic] effort in Chile

Record The - 1873 - 232 pages
...Mary that there is for believing in the existence of God. We quote translating literally. "He who said that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him, uttered a profound truth, and gave at the same time the most conclusive proof of God's existence In...
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A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time, Volume 2

Friedrich Ueberweg - 1874 - 580 pages
...rewarding and avenging God as necessary, moreover, for the support of the moral order, whence he affirms: " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him ; but all nature cries out to us that he does exist." The Leibuitzian doctrine, that the existing world...
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