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... mind devoid of reverence or love , hope or fear , gratitude or desire - in any mind whose think- ing is untouched , uncoloured , uninspired by some pious emotion . And religion includes more even than an apprehension of God supplemented ...
... mind devoid of reverence or love , hope or fear , gratitude or desire - in any mind whose think- ing is untouched , uncoloured , uninspired by some pious emotion . And religion includes more even than an apprehension of God supplemented ...
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... mind , if constituted by either feeling or volition separate from knowledge . Some have represented it as consisting essentially in the feeling of de- pendence , others in that of love , and others in fear ; but these are all feelings ...
... mind , if constituted by either feeling or volition separate from knowledge . Some have represented it as consisting essentially in the feeling of de- pendence , others in that of love , and others in fear ; but these are all feelings ...
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... mind within : but they must necessarily imply , and do everywhere imply , that a real proof exists there . If what they in this respect imply be untrue , all that they profess to tell us of God , and as from God , must be rejected by us ...
... mind within : but they must necessarily imply , and do everywhere imply , that a real proof exists there . If what they in this respect imply be untrue , all that they profess to tell us of God , and as from God , must be rejected by us ...
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... . The convictions of a man's heart as to the supreme object of his reverence , and as to the ways in which he ought to show his reverence thereof , necessarily affect for good or ill his entire mind and conduct 10 Theism .
... . The convictions of a man's heart as to the supreme object of his reverence , and as to the ways in which he ought to show his reverence thereof , necessarily affect for good or ill his entire mind and conduct 10 Theism .
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... mind and conduct . The whole moral life takes a different colour ac- cording to the religious light which falls upon it . As the valley of the Rhone presents a different aspect when seen from a summit of the Jura and from a peak of the ...
... mind and conduct . The whole moral life takes a different colour ac- cording to the religious light which falls upon it . As the valley of the Rhone presents a different aspect when seen from a summit of the Jura and from a peak of the ...
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