 I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness ; and although from henceforth the precept to 'work while it is day...  The Monist - Page 388edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 786 pages
...that the twilight doctrino of the ' new faith ' is a desirable substitute for the waning splendour of ' the old,' I am not ashamed to confess that, with this virtual negation of fckm, the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness. Aud when at times I think, as think at times... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - 706 pages
...loses in losing Christianity : ' Forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those who afh'im that the twilight doctrine of the " new faith " is a desirable substitute for the waning splendour of the old, 1 am not ashamed to confess that, with this virtual negation of God, the universe,... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - 1880 - 180 pages
...am not ashamed to confess," are the sad words of Physicus (" Candid Examination of Theism," p. 114) "that with this virtual negation of God, the universe to me has lost powerfully operate in bringing the wanderers back to the Father whom their very nature will not permit... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pages
...doctrine ofthe ' new faith ' is a desirable substitute for the waning splendour of • the old,' I a::: not ashamed to confess that, with this virtual negation of GOD, the universo to ii-e has lost its soul of loveliness. And when at times I think, us think nt times I rmst,... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1882 - 412 pages
...old,' I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe has lost to me its soul of loveliness ; and although from henceforth the precept to ' work while it is day,1 will doubtless but gain an intensified force from the terribly intensified meaning of the words... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...deducible from Spencer's philosophy, this candid though, I fear, misdirected thinker should declare : ' I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual...universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness,' and that ' when at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...matter into an attitude of the purest scepticism. And forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those, who affirm that the twilight doctrine...' the old,' I am not ashamed to confess that with the virtual negation of God, the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness ; and although from... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...deducible from Spencer's philosophy, this candid though, I fear, misdirected thinker should declare : ' I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual...uni-verse to me has lost its soul of loveliness,' and that ' when at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 404 pages
...anJ refusing to be comforted because they are not. " Forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...new faith ' is a desirable substitute for the waning splendour of ' the old,' I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1886 - 128 pages
...find myself compelled to accept the conclusions here worked out. I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...new faith is a desirable substitute for the waning splendour of the old. I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual denial of God the universe... | |
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