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... difficulty of our time - that denial of it is the form taken by all modern assaults on Christian faith ; and again , that acceptance of it lies at the root , not only of Christianity , but of all positive religion whatever . These ...
... difficulty of our time - that denial of it is the form taken by all modern assaults on Christian faith ; and again , that acceptance of it lies at the root , not only of Christianity , but of all positive religion whatever . These ...
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... difficulty in believing in the Supernatural who are not atheists . What they doubt or deny is , not that God exists , but that He ever acts , or perhaps can act , unless in and through what they call the " Laws of Nature . " M. Guizot ...
... difficulty in believing in the Supernatural who are not atheists . What they doubt or deny is , not that God exists , but that He ever acts , or perhaps can act , unless in and through what they call the " Laws of Nature . " M. Guizot ...
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... difficulty in believing in it . The powers and works of Nature are all superhuman - more than Man can account for in their origin - more than he can resist in their energy - more than he can understand in their effects . This , then ...
... difficulty in believing in it . The powers and works of Nature are all superhuman - more than Man can account for in their origin - more than he can resist in their energy - more than he can understand in their effects . This , then ...
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... greater natural light , incredulity and intellectual night have arisen in our minds . ” * * " This also we humbly beg that human things may not preju- But let us observe exactly where and how the difficulty 4 THE REIGN OF LAW .
... greater natural light , incredulity and intellectual night have arisen in our minds . ” * * " This also we humbly beg that human things may not preju- But let us observe exactly where and how the difficulty 4 THE REIGN OF LAW .
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... difficulty arises . The Reign of Law in Nature is , indeed , so far as we can observe it , universal . But the common idea of the Supernatural is that which is at variance with natural Law , above it , or in violation of it . Nothing ...
... difficulty arises . The Reign of Law in Nature is , indeed , so far as we can observe it , universal . But the common idea of the Supernatural is that which is at variance with natural Law , above it , or in violation of it . Nothing ...
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Page 32 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 47 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the...
Page 5 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are Divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards Divine mysteries.
Page 58 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 102 - Thro' his dim water-world? IV Slight, to be crush'd with a tap Of my finger-nail on the sand, Small, but a work divine, Frail, but of force to withstand. Year upon year, the shock Of cataract seas that snap The three-decker's oaken spine Athwart the ledges of rock, Here on the Breton strand!
Page 148 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 284 - Thus, whatever system of organs be studied, the comparison of their modifications in the ape series leads to one and the same result — that the structural differences which separate man from the gorilla and the chimpanzee are not so great as those which separate the gorilla from the lower apes.
Page 130 - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Page 372 - The mill-owners collected, as apprentices, boys and girls, youths and men, and women, of all ages. In very many cases no provision adequate, or even decent, was provided for their accommodation. The hours of labor were excessive. The ceaseless and untiring agency of machines kept no reckoning of the exhaustion of human nerves. The factory system had not been many years in operation when its effects were seen. A whole generation were growing up under conditions of physical degeneracy, of mental ignorance,...
Page 132 - No wonder that the Wise King reckoned it among the great mysteries of Nature ! The Force of Gravitation, though its exact measure was not ascertained till the days of Newton, has been the most familiar of all Forces in all ages of Mankind. How, then, in violation of its known effects, could heavy bodies be supported upon the thin air — and be gifted with the power of sustaining and directing movements more easy, more rapid, and more certain than the movements of other animals upon the firm and...