The Open Court, Volume 41Paul Carus Open Court Publishing Company, 1927 - Religion |
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... organism , as we know it , all capacity for reorganization is lost and the spirit is no more , the philosopher , against all his own reasoning , lands us at final and beyond which nature cannot go . The tragedy of this hopeless ...
... organism , as we know it , all capacity for reorganization is lost and the spirit is no more , the philosopher , against all his own reasoning , lands us at final and beyond which nature cannot go . The tragedy of this hopeless ...
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... organism itself or to the mind of some external agent . Old - fashioned teleology with a vengeance ! But should we not perhaps cease calling our theories teleological , unless we are willing to entertain this view ? Purpose , that is ...
... organism itself or to the mind of some external agent . Old - fashioned teleology with a vengeance ! But should we not perhaps cease calling our theories teleological , unless we are willing to entertain this view ? Purpose , that is ...
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... organism . This brings us to the second method in which sensori - motor response may serve the future . Just as the hereditary structure may determine a reflex response , which per- forms a function without intelligence or purpose , so ...
... organism . This brings us to the second method in which sensori - motor response may serve the future . Just as the hereditary structure may determine a reflex response , which per- forms a function without intelligence or purpose , so ...
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... organism . While his power was shadowy in the golden age of philosophy , so that there was no central authority to check speculation , yet the possession of the imperial tradition meant much for the development of the ideal of a ...
... organism . While his power was shadowy in the golden age of philosophy , so that there was no central authority to check speculation , yet the possession of the imperial tradition meant much for the development of the ideal of a ...
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... organism or in that system of objective needs which constitutes his private self . But we have attended lately too much to the abnormal and to the primitive vestiges in man , forgetting his distinctively human attri- butes . We are not ...
... organism or in that system of objective needs which constitutes his private self . But we have attended lately too much to the abnormal and to the primitive vestiges in man , forgetting his distinctively human attri- butes . We are not ...
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Page 8 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Page 279 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward: O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard?
Page 278 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 379 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 230 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Page 755 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree : his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 7 - I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in everything, and as I was then perswaded, & remain confirm'd, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.
Page 377 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Page 598 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 5 - Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...