 | Suzanne S. Webb - 1987 - 806 pages
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 | Paul Johnson - 1994 - 434 pages
...God, what is he? As Francis Bacon put it: "They that deny God destroy man's nobility: for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature." We are less base and ignoble by virtue... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 pages
...is the being - can it be an immortal one? who will condescend to govern 87 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... | |
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. 
