Belief in God, Its Origin, Nature, and Basis: Being the Winkley Lectures of the Andover Theological Seminary for the Year 1890Scribner, 1890 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 82 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Pagina 7 - Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates; as old as the writer who said, "Try all things, hold fast by that which is good;" it is the foundation of the Reformation, which simply illustrated the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him; it is the great principle of Descartes; it is the fundamental axiom of modern...
Pagina 194 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Pagina 197 - I 32 should believe in design. If I could be convinced thoroughly that life and mind was in an unknown way a function of other imponderable force, I should be convinced.
Pagina 197 - On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.
Pagina 198 - I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God ; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide. I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came, and how it arose. Nor can I overlook the difficulty from the immense amount of suffering through the world.
Pagina 197 - Species,' and agrees, to a certain limited extent, but puts in a caution on design — much like yours I have been led to think more on this subject of late, and grieve to say that I come to differ more from you. It is not that designed variation makes, as it seems to me, my deity
Pagina 198 - I said it was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of mind. I shall never forget Mr. Darwin's answer. He looked at me very hard and said, ' Well, that often comes over me with overwhelming force ; but at other times,' and he shook his head vaguely, adding,
Pagina 205 - You have most cleverly hit on one point, which has greatly troubled me ; if, as I must think, external conditions produce little direct effect, what the devil determines each particular variation ? What makes a tuft of feathers come on a cock's head, or moss on a moss-rose ? I shall much like to talk over this with you.
Pagina 261 - Christ, but it is fatal to those confessions of the Christian religion which have been embodied in an antiquated psychology, anthropology, cosmology, and history. The process of readjustment is going on rapidly, and it is much more thorough in the actual beliefs of men than in the revised creeds that are supposed to represent them. Even the new Biblical criticism has won a victory almost as complete as ftiat of astronomy, geology, and zoology.