| Robin Le Poidevin - 1996 - 192 pages
...and ethics inseparable or incompatible? They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly Man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Francis Bacon, Of Atheism PLATO'S DILEMMA Consider the following doctrines: (a) God is good. (b) God... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 pages
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| Mary Shelley - 1997 - 566 pages
...insignificant is the being - can it be an immortal one? who will condescend to govern by such sinister methods! 'Certainly, says Lord Bacon, 'man is of kin to the...kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!'4 Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure... | |
| Ted Goodman - 1997 - 1008 pages
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| Peter Loptson - 1998 - 588 pages
...distant. the being - can it be an immortal one? - who will condescend to govern by such sinister methods? "Certainly," says Lord Bacon, "man is of kin to the...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!" Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good... | |
| Stephen H. Webb - 1998 - 235 pages
...Francis Bacon's Essays Civil and Moral: "They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...about to religlon. 696 Essays 'Of Atheism' They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly s of yore, ... ...Thy Naiad airs have brought me home,...was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. 8809 M 697 Essays 'Of Beauty' That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express. 698 Essays... | |
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