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... fact . If there be no God , or if it be impossible to know whether there be a God or not , history , to the whole extent of its being religious and influenced by religion , must have been unreasonable . Religion might still , per- haps ...
... fact . If there be no God , or if it be impossible to know whether there be a God or not , history , to the whole extent of its being religious and influenced by religion , must have been unreasonable . Religion might still , per- haps ...
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... facts which powerfully confirm and largely supple- ment what proof there is in the universe without and the mind within : but they must necessarily imply , and do everywhere imply , that a real proof exists there . If what they in this ...
... facts which powerfully confirm and largely supple- ment what proof there is in the universe without and the mind within : but they must necessarily imply , and do everywhere imply , that a real proof exists there . If what they in this ...
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... fact is a valid and weighty reason for inquiring very carefully which of them is true and which false . He who believes , for example , that there is a God , and he who believes that there is no being 1 1 By J. S. Mill , in the very ...
... fact is a valid and weighty reason for inquiring very carefully which of them is true and which false . He who believes , for example , that there is a God , and he who believes that there is no being 1 1 By J. S. Mill , in the very ...
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... facts of nature could have created a Pallas , a Madonna , or a Lear . " What the historian has thus said as to art is ... fact , an in- disputable historical truth that we owe our theism in great part to our Christianity , —that natural ...
... facts of nature could have created a Pallas , a Madonna , or a Lear . " What the historian has thus said as to art is ... fact , an in- disputable historical truth that we owe our theism in great part to our Christianity , —that natural ...
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... fact that reason there undermined the polytheism which flourished when Homer sang ; that it discovered the chief theistic proofs still employed , and attained in many minds nearly the same belief in God which now prevails . The ...
... fact that reason there undermined the polytheism which flourished when Homer sang ; that it discovered the chief theistic proofs still employed , and attained in many minds nearly the same belief in God which now prevails . The ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
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