 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
 | Interdenominational Congress - 1886 - 280 pages
...open, and atheism overwhelming is upon us. Forasmuch," he adds, " as I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...the ' new faith ' is a desirable substitute for the old, I am not ashamed to confess that, with this virtual negation of God, the universe, to me, has... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1887 - 352 pages
...confess," says the author of a ' Candid Examination of Theism,' " that [with these new views] the universe has lost its soul of loveliness ; and although from...precept, ' to work while it is day,' will doubtless gain an intensified force, from the terribly intensified meaning of the words, ' the night cometh when... | |
 | Alexander Mair - 1889 - 432 pages
...living now ? NOTE XXI. p. .333. THE SADNESS OF ATHEISM. ' 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... | |
 | 1890 - 596 pages
...this clean breast of it in his " Candid Examination of Theism " : "I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...of the old. I am not ashamed to confess that with virtual denial of God, the universe has lost to me its soul of loveliness ; and although from henceforth... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - 1890 - 472 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 splendors of the old. I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual denial of God the universe... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1892 - 592 pages
...into an attitude of the purest skepticism*. And forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree witli those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of the...virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost the soul of loveliness ; and although from henceforth the precept to ' work while it is day,' will... | |
 | 1892 - 660 pages
...in religion, he makes this remarkable confession : " Forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...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... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1894 - 608 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 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... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1895 - 216 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 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... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1895 - 180 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 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... | |
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