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Page 167
... Reason " was in the ascendant . It had gained a hardly - won victory in theology , and it also conformed with the social taste of the time . If the Latitudinarians had to accept their Bible whole , they found no more difficulty than ...
... Reason " was in the ascendant . It had gained a hardly - won victory in theology , and it also conformed with the social taste of the time . If the Latitudinarians had to accept their Bible whole , they found no more difficulty than ...
Page 169
... reason . Yet " reason " is , after all , a negative quality in itself ; and it was not the monopoly of those to whom belongs the credit of having made its voice first clearly heard . Even Butler was compelled to have his hypothesis ...
... reason . Yet " reason " is , after all , a negative quality in itself ; and it was not the monopoly of those to whom belongs the credit of having made its voice first clearly heard . Even Butler was compelled to have his hypothesis ...
Page 186
... Reason " pointed to what , for one of his warmth of emotion and religious zeal , would only have proved a stony desert . His heart won the day : but it won it imperfectly . His nature could not dispense with reason , which was therefore ...
... Reason " pointed to what , for one of his warmth of emotion and religious zeal , would only have proved a stony desert . His heart won the day : but it won it imperfectly . His nature could not dispense with reason , which was therefore ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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