 | Ernst Feil - 1986 - 552 pages
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 | Adriana Craciun - 2002 - 184 pages
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 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 pages
...inclined to atheism, which, Bacon says, deprives man of his nobility and magnanimity: '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'. As we have seen, such atheism would also prevent our finding guidance for wielding the awesome power... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...men's minds to religion. They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin0 to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity,0 and the raising0 of human nature; for take an example of a dog,... | |
 | Dave Beech, John Roberts - 2002 - 324 pages
...Early Modern England', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, no. 35, 1985, p. 138. body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.'23 Like philistinism, atheism was universally decried as a form of intellectual self-mutilation:... | |
 | Louis Daniel Brodsky - 1996 - 644 pages
...be trying to tell his temporal community of the timeless nobility of mankind. . . . Man is oj Kinne to the Beasts, by his Body; And if, he be not of Kinne to God, by his Spirit, he is a Base and Ignoble Creature. — Francis Bacon. "Of Atheism" 5/10/65... | |
 | B. G. Lovejoy - 2003 - 296 pages
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 | Bob Kelly - 2003 - 404 pages
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 | Martyn Paine - 2003 - 720 pages
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 | Elisabeth Gibbels - 2004 - 214 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...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. 
