Modern Civilisation in Relation to Christianity: A Series of EssaysWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1864 - 128 páginas |
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... Faith 29 X. A digging for the Root of Moral Scepticism 32 XI . Duty 36 XII . Is the New Testament Morality practicable ? 39 XIII . Moral Truths - in what sense stationary , in what progressive 44 XIV . Mr. Buckle's Physical Fatalism 48 ...
... Faith 29 X. A digging for the Root of Moral Scepticism 32 XI . Duty 36 XII . Is the New Testament Morality practicable ? 39 XIII . Moral Truths - in what sense stationary , in what progressive 44 XIV . Mr. Buckle's Physical Fatalism 48 ...
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... faith has become a realisation . So prosper all attempts to degrade virtue into a matter of computation , and substitute Pleasure for the Highest Good ! The genesis and development of virtue is the converse of this . It is not virtue at ...
... faith has become a realisation . So prosper all attempts to degrade virtue into a matter of computation , and substitute Pleasure for the Highest Good ! The genesis and development of virtue is the converse of this . It is not virtue at ...
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... faith on Heaven above , Earth's harvests must be blighted , For want of mutual love . Were men to one another As kind as God to all , Then no man on his brother , For help would vainly call . On none for idle wasting , Would honest ...
... faith on Heaven above , Earth's harvests must be blighted , For want of mutual love . Were men to one another As kind as God to all , Then no man on his brother , For help would vainly call . On none for idle wasting , Would honest ...
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... faith as the very basis on which it rests . In that state , man acts for the unrealised , and as yet , unseen . In the absence of religious motives he will do so . But in that case he has regard only to his own apparent interest . Of ...
... faith as the very basis on which it rests . In that state , man acts for the unrealised , and as yet , unseen . In the absence of religious motives he will do so . But in that case he has regard only to his own apparent interest . Of ...
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... FAITH . " BEFORE the investigation of physical phenomena can begin , a spirit of scepticism must arise , which , at first aiding the investigation , is after- wards aided by it . " Such is Mr Buckle's theory of ... FAITH . 29 Doubt and Faith.
... FAITH . " BEFORE the investigation of physical phenomena can begin , a spirit of scepticism must arise , which , at first aiding the investigation , is after- wards aided by it . " Such is Mr Buckle's theory of ... FAITH . 29 Doubt and Faith.
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