 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
 | Alfred William Benn - 1906 - 592 pages
...2 ' Far from being able to agree ' ' A Candid Examination of Theism,' pp. 51-2. ' Op. ctt., p. 63. 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... | |
 | Rudolf Schmid - 1906 - 284 pages
...matter into an attitude of the purest scepticism. And for as much 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... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1908 - 220 pages
...certain that his agnostic conclusions were final: "And forasmuch as lam 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... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1908 - 78 pages
...giving insight into the human spirit. ILLUSTRATIONS "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... | |
 | 1908 - 572 pages
...intellect could not keep him from feeling poverty of soul. Physicus wrote at the very end of his lxx)k, " I confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness. . . . When at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed... | |
 | Eugene William Lyman - 1910 - 250 pages
...evolution had undermined his former religious faith: "Forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those who affirm that the twilight doctrine of...is a desirable substitute for the waning splendor of'the old,' I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me... | |
 | Edward Mortimer Chapman - 1910 - 604 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... | |
 | 1898 - 1032 pages
...given by science, and can know nothing more. In the darkness where his conclusions left him he wrote, " I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual...universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness; " and, further, "When at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed... | |
 | Burnett Hillman Streeter - 1912 - 560 pages
...mattter 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... | |
 | Henry Lewis - 1913 - 450 pages
...the happiness of human life he was painfully aware. " I am not ashamed to confess," he declared, " that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness." He went on to say that " henceforth the precept to ' work while it is day ' will doubtless but gain... | |
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