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... reaction of the suc- cessive types of religion which have slowly built up modern civilisation is based on what claims to be a scien- tific Philosophy , issuing forth into a moral and religious xi CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY.
... reaction of the suc- cessive types of religion which have slowly built up modern civilisation is based on what claims to be a scien- tific Philosophy , issuing forth into a moral and religious xi CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY.
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... civilisation and are not the crude instincts of untutored men . Again , both agree in the need for a spiritual society distinct from the political or economic society - some- thing that may be called a Church , having its spiritual ...
... civilisation and are not the crude instincts of untutored men . Again , both agree in the need for a spiritual society distinct from the political or economic society - some- thing that may be called a Church , having its spiritual ...
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... civilisation . It is not Heaven , nor is its counterpart , Hell : but it is perfectly real , demonstrably certain as a fact , and adequate as a motive to a worthy life . It is childish to talk about Hallelujahs , thrones , and crowns of ...
... civilisation . It is not Heaven , nor is its counterpart , Hell : but it is perfectly real , demonstrably certain as a fact , and adequate as a motive to a worthy life . It is childish to talk about Hallelujahs , thrones , and crowns of ...
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... civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon , George Fox and Ken , of Wesley and Whitefield , or rather in the churches ...
... civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon , George Fox and Ken , of Wesley and Whitefield , or rather in the churches ...
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Frederic Harrison. -it is part of civilisation itself — that our scientific con- ception of law , proof , experiment , cause and effect , conquers one field after another . And it is also an un- deniable fact of civilisation that the ...
Frederic Harrison. -it is part of civilisation itself — that our scientific con- ception of law , proof , experiment , cause and effect , conquers one field after another . And it is also an un- deniable fact of civilisation that 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...