Delineations, Physical, Intellectual and Moral, Exemplifying the Philosophy of Christianity1838 |
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... highest state of culture , is inadequate to the attainment of a true knowledge of the Deity ; but from investigating the process of causation in the production of the works of nature , power , wisdom , and goodness are obviously dis ...
... highest state of culture , is inadequate to the attainment of a true knowledge of the Deity ; but from investigating the process of causation in the production of the works of nature , power , wisdom , and goodness are obviously dis ...
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... highest organization with which we are acquainted— the human species . Creation , in its bound- less extent , is far beyond the capability of man to conceive . The little part of the mag- nificent universe which science enables us to ...
... highest organization with which we are acquainted— the human species . Creation , in its bound- less extent , is far beyond the capability of man to conceive . The little part of the mag- nificent universe which science enables us to ...
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... highest attainable perfection in the moral . Bright are the hopes that Reason yields , From this terrestrial scene , But ah ! how dazzling bright the beams , That spring from Truth Supreme . Light emanating from on high , Displays man's ...
... highest attainable perfection in the moral . Bright are the hopes that Reason yields , From this terrestrial scene , But ah ! how dazzling bright the beams , That spring from Truth Supreme . Light emanating from on high , Displays man's ...
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... The cultivation of the subordinate mental faculties is essential to the formation of a correct judgment , which being the highest of our intellectual powers , forms the basis of the 44 ON THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES .
... The cultivation of the subordinate mental faculties is essential to the formation of a correct judgment , which being the highest of our intellectual powers , forms the basis of the 44 ON THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES .
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... principle proportionately ennobles the nation , and approximates its character to- wards the highest attainable dignity and elevation . Sensation , the Effect of Vitality and Organization . VITALITY 50 ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTIONS .
... principle proportionately ennobles the nation , and approximates its character to- wards the highest attainable dignity and elevation . Sensation , the Effect of Vitality and Organization . VITALITY 50 ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTIONS .
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Page 8 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself, by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.
Page 54 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 149 - ... recorded, vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled, perpetuating in the united movements of each particle, the testimony of man's changeful will.
Page 160 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 7 - ... there must be, as even the heathen philosophers confessed, one first mover; that is, a first, and an eternal cause of all things ; w7hich is that which men mean by the name of God...
Page 147 - The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, cease not to exist with the sounds to which they give rise.
Page 80 - ... reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.
Page 161 - All analogy leads us to infer, and new discoveries continually direct our expectation to the idea, that the most extensive laws to which we have hitherto attained, converge to some few simple and general principles, by which the whole of the material universe is sustained, and from which its infinitely varied phenomena emerge as the necessary consequences.
Page 148 - If man enjoyed a larger command over mathematical analysis, his knowledge of these motions would be more extensive : but a being, possessed of unbounded knowledge of that science, could trace every the minutest consequence of that primary impulse.
Page 149 - The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.