Some Remarks on the Axioms and Postulates of Athetic Philosophy

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Deighton, Bell & Company, Limited, 1922 - Philosophical theology - 44 pages

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Page 14 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 38 - THE Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping, and adoration, as well of images, as of reliques, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God.
Page 33 - There is no finality in philosophy. It is essentially a progression, mostly by antagonism and negation, in which each successive thinker denies something which his predecessors had affirmed, or affirms something which his successors will deny.
Page 40 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 33 - ... has never been attained, it is inevitable that each successive age, standing on the shoulders of its predecessor, should reject as inadequate the synthesis which satisfied the latter 1 ." 1 The Times Literary Supplement, April 22, 1904, Herbert Spencer's Autobiography.

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