 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
 | Robert J. Richards - 1987 - 719 pages
...purest skepticism. And forasmuch as I am far from being able to agree with those 21. Ibid., p. 38. who affirm that the twilight doctrine 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 God the universe... | |
 | Richard J. Helmstadter - 1990 - 422 pages
...labours for whatever they may be worth. . . . 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 M. Turner - 1993 - 392 pages
...his labours for whatever they may be worth . . . 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... | |
 | Josh McDowell, Thomas Williams - 2003 - 180 pages
...George John Romanes, a believer in creation until he abandoned his faith to become a disciple of Darwin. "I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual...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... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - 1905 - 780 pages
...can have a more lively perception tlian myself of the possibly disastrous tendency of my work. ... I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual...it is day' will doubtless but gain an intensified meaning of the words that 'night cometh when no man can work,' yet when at times I think — as think... | |
 | 1884 - 644 pages
...discipline my intellect with regard to this matter into an attitude of the purest scepticism. And . . . I am not ashamed to confess that, with this virtual...loveliness; and although from henceforth the precept activity — one side only, however, of His boundless energizing. GOD in ordinary nature, man, reason,... | |
 | 1886 - 466 pages
...the old, I am not ashamed to confess [hear this, ye who are tampering with unbelief] that, with the virtual negation of God, the universe to me has lost...precept to ' work while it is day ' will, doubtless, gain an intensified force from the terribly intensified meaning of the words that • the night comcth... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1880 - 462 pages
...annihilation. The sadness of a lost belief is yet more intense. An avowed atheist has lately written : " I am not ashamed to confess that with -this virtual...the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness. Moreover, when I think — as think at times I must — of the appalling contrast between the hallowed... | |
 | 1917 - 690 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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