 Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 273by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - Authors, English - 1898 - 256 pages
...it. He says : " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the Eternal Father of Light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...laid within the reach of their natural faculties." 3 But Mary Wollstonecraft goes beyond 1 Dr. Richard Price : Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 520 pages
...his sons. BOOK n " Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion...of their natural faculties; revelation is natural reaton enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the... | |
 | Isaac Winter Heysinger - Religion and science - 1910 - 470 pages
...: " Reason," he says, " is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...set of discoveries communicated by God immediately." Our organs themselves, according to Locke, are God-given. " We cannot believe it impossible," he says,... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 516 pages
...•Reason, says Mr. Locke, is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion...laid within the reach of their natural faculties. 'The Human Understanding,' B. iv., c. 19, par. 4. should lie, or the son of man that He should repent.... | |
 | Friedrich Schleiermacher, George Cross - Theology, Doctrinal - 1911 - 368 pages
...are worth quoting: Reason is natural revelation whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within reach of their natural faculties ; revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Free thought - 1915 - 556 pages
...can ever override reason. In one ; passage he declares that " reason is natural revelation," while " revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set...discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouchsafes the truth of."* This compromise appears to be borrowed from Spinoza, who had put it with... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - England - 1916 - 634 pages
...Rationalism, that "Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all Knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...which reason vouches the truth of by the testimony and proof it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation,... | |
 | Samuel Gring Hefelbower - Deism - 1918 - 204 pages
...are contrasted. "Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge communicates to mankind that portion...reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proof it gives that they come from God." So that to deny reason in the interest of revelation "puts... | |
 | George Cross - Christianity - 1918 - 232 pages
...Fountain of all knowledge communicates to all mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within reach of their natural faculties; revelation is natural...testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. The principles of Bacon and Locke carried the majority of religious thinkers along with them. But a... | |
 | David Graham - Belief and doubt - 1919 - 184 pages
...of Reason. . . . " Reason is natural Revelation whereby the Eternal Father of Light, and Fountain of all Knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion...immediately, which Reason vouches the truth of, by the testimonies and proofs it gives that they came from God. So that he that takes away Reason to make... | |
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