 I can only answer that, either there is no Creator, or this living society of men is in a true sense discarded from his presence. . . . And so I argue about the world ; if there be a God, since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible...  Letters to the Perplexed - Page 222by Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1878 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1869 - 404 pages
...Briefly stated the case is thus, and we give his own words as often as we can. The human race is involved in some terrible aboriginal calamity ; it is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator. Thus the doctrine of original sin is as certain as the existence of a God. It is the will of the Creator... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...Thus only should I be able to account for the contrast between the promise and condition of his being. And so I argue about the world. If there be a GOD, since there is a GOD, the human race :s implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint •ivith the purposes of its... | |
 | 1882 - 866 pages
...living society of man is in a true sense "discarded from his presence." Hence, if there be a God, and since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity, and is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator. If for any this ruin is to be arrested and a... | |
 | Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1883 - 264 pages
...that there was seme mystery connected with his history. And so I argue about the world ; if there is a God, since there is a God, the human race is implicated...is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator." Thus then we find the first meaning of the parable, " The field is the world ; " but an enemy hath... | |
 | 1890 - 400 pages
...which neither the study of nature or of mankind bears out, to assume at the outset that " if there be a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible...is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator." We cannot admit the truth of any view which casts such a reflection upon His wisdom and His power.... | |
 | Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings - 1887 - 382 pages
...true sense discarded from his presence." But since there is a Creator, Cardinal Newman argues that " the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal...joint with the purposes of its Creator." " This," he insists, " is a fact, — a fact as true as the fact of its existence ; and thus," he continues,... | |
 | Francis Howe Johnson - 1891 - 550 pages
...only should I be able to account for the contrast between the promise and the condition of his being. If there be a God, — since there is a God, — the...is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator." 1 In harmony with this view, the planting of an infallible church is regarded by him as an interference.... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1892 - 760 pages
...is no Creator, or this living society of men is in a true sense discarded from his presence. . . . Since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity." From a deity who having created his own materials, built up a creation liable to such calamity, mankind... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1902 - 356 pages
...society of men is in a true sense discarded from his presence ... if there be a God, since there be a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible...is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator." If, then, it were the merciful will of the Creator to interfere, what methods would be naturally involved... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...only should I be able to account for the contrast between the promise and the condition of his being. ors. His last speech had been an attack at once on the race-is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint with the purposes of its... | |
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