An Essay on Intuitive Morals: Being an Attempt to Popularize Ethical Science. Part 1. Theory of Morals, Osa 1Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1859 - 279 sivua |
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Sivu 243 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Sivu 130 - A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with...
Sivu 15 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him, is our silence, when we confess without confession, that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we upon earth; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary...
Sivu 248 - ... must insensibly diminish the affections towards public good or the interest of society and introduce a certain narrowness of spirit, which, as some pretend, is peculiarly observable in the devout persons and zealots of almost every religious persuasion.
Sivu 134 - For whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just and good, must suppose that there is independently such a thing as justice and injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which he pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true.
Sivu 125 - The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. For that which all men have at all times learned, Nature herself must needs have taught; and God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument.
Sivu 126 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: which show the works of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another ; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Sivu 212 - ... immunity from pain, the only good : pain is in itself an evil ; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil ; or else the words good and evil have no meaning. And this is alike true of every sort of pain, and of every sort of pleasure. It follows, therefore, immediately and incontestably, that there is no such thing as any sort of motive that is in itself a bad one.* 11.
Sivu 65 - Necessary truths are those in which we not only learn that the proposition is true, but see that it must be true; in which the negation of the truth is not only false, but impossible; in which we cannot, even by an effort of imagination, or in a supposition, conceive the reverse of that which is asserted.
Sivu 184 - Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh ;' there is your remedy : ' for the Spirit lusteth against the flesh, and the flesh against the Spirit...