Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1873 - 362 sivua
CONTENTS The Broad Church Religion as a Fine Art Darwinism and Divinity Are We Christians? A Bad Five Minutes in the Alps Shaftesbury's "Characteristics" Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees" Warburton An Apology for Plainspeaking
 

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Sivu 61 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Sivu 134 - You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Sivu 291 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Sivu 121 - True religion undoubtedly leads us to do to others as we would that they should do to us.
Sivu 258 - Search, then, the ruling passion :: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known .; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here...
Sivu 23 - Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man ; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.
Sivu 315 - We know in part, and we prophesy in part ; but when that which is perfect shall come, then that which is in part shall be done away. Now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then, face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Sivu 250 - ... what we call evil in this world, moral as well as natural, is the grand principle that makes us sociable creatures...
Sivu 231 - There is no more of rectitude, piety, or sanctity in a creature thus reformed, than there is meekness or gentleness in a tiger strongly chained, or innocence and sobriety in a monkey under the discipline of the whip.

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