The National Review, Volume 18W.H. Allen, 1891 - English literature |
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Page 190
... believe , " instead of being a guarantee of cautious rationalism , is an impulse towards fantas- tical credulities . There are men and women who simply gasp for marvels to believe , and their satisfaction is great in proportion to the ...
... believe , " instead of being a guarantee of cautious rationalism , is an impulse towards fantas- tical credulities . There are men and women who simply gasp for marvels to believe , and their satisfaction is great in proportion to the ...
Page 199
... believe that the chief of our " emancipations " is a general indifference to Christianity . That the Churches are more prosperous than they ever were is no disproof of this conjecture . Ninety per cent . of the people of Great Britain ...
... believe that the chief of our " emancipations " is a general indifference to Christianity . That the Churches are more prosperous than they ever were is no disproof of this conjecture . Ninety per cent . of the people of Great Britain ...
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... believe that people could be done to death by sticking pins into a wax figure , and that old women could ride up chimneys on broomsticks , was surely as absurd as to believe that medicine can be made of children's eyes , or that certain ...
... believe that people could be done to death by sticking pins into a wax figure , and that old women could ride up chimneys on broomsticks , was surely as absurd as to believe that medicine can be made of children's eyes , or that certain ...
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