God and the Future Life : the Reasonableness of ChristianityHarper, 1883 - 228 páginas |
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ambition animal Asa Gray assert beasts become believe Bible bodily body cause Charles Babbage CHARLES NORDHOFF Christian Cloth comfort conduct course creation Creator deny desires disappointments duty engine enjoyment erwise evil existence experience fact faith Father force fortune future give Gospels gratification grave habits happiness harmony HARPER & BROTHERS Hence Herodotus higher hope HUGUENOTS human ical important individual infinite instance intelligent Jesus John Stuart Mill knowledge labors law of Moses less lives machine mankind matter means ment merely mind miracles moderate moral mystery natural laws NATURAL THEOLOGY necessary object observe Old Testament ourselves passions Pharisees phenomena physical planet prayer present purpose reason SAMUEL SMILES scientific self-denial selfish sense society sorrows soul spirit strive strong success suffering theory things thou thought tion tivation true truth wealth wisdom wise women wonderful young
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Página 59 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Página 103 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Página 9 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not 1 let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
Página 108 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Página 107 - Then Jesus beholding him, loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 132 - Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Página 215 - Now it must be observed that the law that each number presented by the engine is greater by unity than the preceding number, which law the observer had deduced from an induction of a hundred million instances, was not the true law that regulated its action, and that the occurrence of the number 100,010,002 at the 100,000,002...
Página 227 - Now among the most unquestionable rules of Scientific Method is that first law that whatever phenomenon is, is. We must ignore no existence whatever ; we may variously interpret or explain its meaning and origin, but if a phenomenon does exist it demands some kind of explanation.