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... tion of order , for example , and reject the thought of an intelligence in which that order has its source ? Or , is this not to represent every science as leading us into a darkness far greater than any from which it has delivered us ...
... tion of order , for example , and reject the thought of an intelligence in which that order has its source ? Or , is this not to represent every science as leading us into a darkness far greater than any from which it has delivered us ...
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... tion might have been hoped to make impossible -only because they too seldom give to religious truths the patient and impartial consideration to which these are entitled . But most deserving of welcome is every evidence on their part of ...
... tion might have been hoped to make impossible -only because they too seldom give to religious truths the patient and impartial consideration to which these are entitled . But most deserving of welcome is every evidence on their part of ...
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... tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that it is not Historical Development of Theism . 21.
... tion - as a doctrine received simply on authority , and transmitted from age to age , from generation to generation , without investigation , without reflec- tion . It does not follow that it is not Historical Development of Theism . 21.
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Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. tion . It does not follow that it is not a truth the evidence of which has been seen in some measure by every generation which has accepted it , and into the depth and comprehensiveness and ...
Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. tion . It does not follow that it is not a truth the evidence of which has been seen in some measure by every generation which has accepted it , and into the depth and comprehensiveness and ...
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... tion nor reaction , but evolution - a process which is at once conservative and progressive , which brings the new out of the old by the continuous growth and elaboration of the germs of life into organic completeness . All that is ...
... tion nor reaction , but evolution - a process which is at once conservative and progressive , which brings the new out of the old by the continuous growth and elaboration of the germs of life into organic completeness . All that is ...
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