Modern Atheism, Or, The Heavenly FatherJames Nisbet, 1882 - 307 páginas |
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Página 155 - ... individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
Página 108 - And he deduced as follows the practical consequence of his theory: "The idea of God is the key-stone of the arch of a tottering civilization; let us destroy it. The true road to liberty, to equality-, and to happiness, is atheism. No safety on earth, so long as man holds on by a thread to heaven. — Let nothing henceforward shackle the spontaneity of the human mind. Let us teach man that there is no other God than himself, that he is the Alpha and the Omega of all things, the superior being, and...
Página 156 - The true road to and the Omega of all things, the superior being, and the most real reality." Again, Caro observes : — " Science conducts God with honour to its frontiers, thanking him for his provisional services.
Página 221 - Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant Sur des rameaux trop frêles, Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant, Sachant qu'il a des ailes!
Página 135 - The wisdom of the Lord is infinite, so also are His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises! Sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Celestial harmonies, and all ye who comprehend His marvelous works, praise Him! And tliou, my soul, praise thy Creator!
Página 257 - Tristes calculateurs des misères humaines , Ne me consolez point , vous aigrissez mes peines ; Et je ne vois en vous que l'effort impuissant D'un fier infortuné qui feint d'être content.
Página 222 - Ut porro firmissimum hoc afferri videtur, cur deos esse credamus, quod nulla gens tam fera, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio : — multi de diis prava sentiunt (id enim vitioso more effici solet) ; omnes tamen esse vim et naturam divinam arbitrantur; nee vero id collocutio hominum aut consensus effecit ; non institutis opinio est confirmata, non legibus ; omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est...
Página 108 - The true road to liberty, to equality, and to happiness, is atheism. No safety on earth, so long as man holds on by a thread to Heaven. Let nothing henceforward s See "Fortnightly Review
Página 13 - It was in a theatre at Athens that the chorus of a tragedy sang, more than two thousand years ago : " May destiny aid me to preserve unsullied the purity of my words and of all my actions, according to those sublime laws which, brought forth in the celestial heights, have Heaven alone for their father, to which the race of mortal men did not give birth, and which oblivion shall, never entomb. In them is a supreme God, and one who waxes not...
Página 271 - He is entering upon this question: What can have been the motive of the creation? And he distinguishes between love in the Platonic sense of it, for which he retains the name of love, and the love which gives itself, which he designates by the term — goodness. "Was it then love," he asks, "which impelled the Divine Will, and said to it unceasingly: Go and create? Is it love which we must thus regard as our first father? But, alas! love itself has a cause in the beauty of its object; and what beauty...