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Page vii
... Positivist Society and editor of the Positivist Re- view . The first four essays in this volume have never been published , the succeeding essays appeared in the Positivist Review June , 1911 to June , 1912 . Together they resume my ...
... Positivist Society and editor of the Positivist Re- view . The first four essays in this volume have never been published , the succeeding essays appeared in the Positivist Review June , 1911 to June , 1912 . Together they resume my ...
Page xi
... Positivism . The title of this volume im- plies as much . It is far from my purpose to attempt any general exposition of the system . I shall merely seek to form an estimate of various types of religion from a free and independent point ...
... Positivism . The title of this volume im- plies as much . It is far from my purpose to attempt any general exposition of the system . I shall merely seek to form an estimate of various types of religion from a free and independent point ...
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... Positivism is the Synthesis , or harmonising of all three sides of hu- man life . It is thus forced to take a wide range , and to deal with the entire history of Religion on a common scheme . And this forms the main difficulty which it ...
... Positivism is the Synthesis , or harmonising of all three sides of hu- man life . It is thus forced to take a wide range , and to deal with the entire history of Religion on a common scheme . And this forms the main difficulty which it ...
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... Positivism with Ethical cul- ture entirely devoid of any religious element . These are four of the main classes of objections , and each of them is fairly entitled to be heard and to have a plain reply . There are certainly many other ...
... Positivism with Ethical cul- ture entirely devoid of any religious element . These are four of the main classes of objections , and each of them is fairly entitled to be heard and to have a plain reply . There are certainly many other ...
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... Positivism as a system without touching on a wide field . Its claim to find some Synthesis of human life implies a field coex- tensive with life . But it causes a difficulty to those who take a first view , or a hasty view of the ...
... Positivism as a system without touching on a wide field . Its claim to find some Synthesis of human life implies a field coex- tensive with life . But it causes a difficulty to those who take a first view , or a hasty view of the ...
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Page 181 - ... the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. I do not say that other and more intelligent forces than this were not opposed to the Oxford movement : but this was the force which really beat it ; this was the force which Dr. Newman...