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... modern thought , we must question them freely , we must express the results of our reflection fearlessly and openly . To be afraid to think or to speak out our thoughts would be to stifle reli- gion and bring about inevitable decay ...
... modern thought , we must question them freely , we must express the results of our reflection fearlessly and openly . To be afraid to think or to speak out our thoughts would be to stifle reli- gion and bring about inevitable decay ...
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... modern science explores , are to the savage pure mystery , inexplicable and arbitrary . Hav- ing no idea of natural causation , as we now understand it , he instinctively regards all the moving objects about him after the nearest ...
... modern science explores , are to the savage pure mystery , inexplicable and arbitrary . Hav- ing no idea of natural causation , as we now understand it , he instinctively regards all the moving objects about him after the nearest ...
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... modern man is apt to think of nature as the mere material for his labors , obdurate and resistant to his will . The Greeks , on the other hand , lived consciously in the presence of natural forces . The earth was to them a kindly mother ...
... modern man is apt to think of nature as the mere material for his labors , obdurate and resistant to his will . The Greeks , on the other hand , lived consciously in the presence of natural forces . The earth was to them a kindly mother ...
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... modern religion , is left to be the perpetually recurrent theme of poets and artists , the invaluable bequest of a singularly gifted and imaginative people to our rather drab and utilitarian age . - ( 2 ) But it is not merely the love ...
... modern religion , is left to be the perpetually recurrent theme of poets and artists , the invaluable bequest of a singularly gifted and imaginative people to our rather drab and utilitarian age . - ( 2 ) But it is not merely the love ...
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... precisely the note of Christian Science , and of the modern Transcendental philosophy , which borrowed from Hinduism . that its power lay . He was , like Christ 338 HISTORICAL What was the nature of Buddha's mission?
... precisely the note of Christian Science , and of the modern Transcendental philosophy , which borrowed from Hinduism . that its power lay . He was , like Christ 338 HISTORICAL What was the nature of Buddha's mission?
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Page 330 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Page 155 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 382 - I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Page 382 - Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Page 270 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment, ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth...
Page 139 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 56 - Through thee will we push down our enemies : through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Page 60 - And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest...
Page 92 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Page 383 - As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up ; so man lieth down and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.