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... age is one of Analysis , -of fissiparous research . The Posi- tive scheme is a search for Synthesis - a combination of knowledge with sympathy and with action . In dealing with objections , I shall group them into four leading classes ...
... age is one of Analysis , -of fissiparous research . The Posi- tive scheme is a search for Synthesis - a combination of knowledge with sympathy and with action . In dealing with objections , I shall group them into four leading classes ...
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... ages with elaborate religions , theologies , and moral codes , but without a thought about Infinity and Abso- lute Almighty . It is strange that men imagine these ideas insepar- able from organised religious life when they have been ...
... ages with elaborate religions , theologies , and moral codes , but without a thought about Infinity and Abso- lute Almighty . It is strange that men imagine these ideas insepar- able from organised religious life when they have been ...
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... age of Luther and Calvin , Zwingli and Knox , the verbal inspiration of Scripture held paramount sway over cert- ain races of Northern Europe . For a time it seemed that the Revelation of the Scripture was a firmer and more spiritual ...
... age of Luther and Calvin , Zwingli and Knox , the verbal inspiration of Scripture held paramount sway over cert- ain races of Northern Europe . For a time it seemed that the Revelation of the Scripture was a firmer and more spiritual ...
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... ages . That voice is not " infallible , " but where it is explicit and unanimous , it would be the part of a fool to gainsay it . This living voice does not speak only about things of worship and faith ; but about all things that ...
... ages . That voice is not " infallible , " but where it is explicit and unanimous , it would be the part of a fool to gainsay it . This living voice does not speak only about things of worship and faith ; but about all things that ...
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... ages , value , and authen- ticity , a pot pourri of folk - lore , popular songs , national traditions , poetry , and fiction , gradually pieced together and edited without any critical care : -so as to mix up the spurious and the ...
... ages , value , and authen- ticity , a pot pourri of folk - lore , popular songs , national traditions , poetry , and fiction , gradually pieced together and edited without any critical care : -so as to mix up the spurious and 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...