Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 9
... religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow- ers they supply , to action proportioned to nature , why ...
... religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow- ers they supply , to action proportioned to nature , why ...
Page 10
... religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own ...
... religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be its own ...
Page 46
... Religion : lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source . This ethical char- acter so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem ...
... Religion : lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source . This ethical char- acter so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem ...
Page 61
... that time and space are relations of matter ; that with a percep- tion of truth or a virtuous will they have no affinity . 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called the practice of ideas , or the introduc- IDEALISM . 61.
... that time and space are relations of matter ; that with a percep- tion of truth or a virtuous will they have no affinity . 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called the practice of ideas , or the introduc- IDEALISM . 61.
Page 62
... religion differ herein ; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man ; the other , from God . Religion includes the personality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our pres- ent design . They both put nature ...
... religion differ herein ; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man ; the other , from God . Religion includes the personality of God ; Ethics does not . They are one to our pres- ent design . They both put nature ...
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