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... idea of any general Synthesis . ( 4 ) The scientific and agnostic objections . Critic- ism from the evolutionary , materialist , and secularist schools , and the contrast of Positivism with Ethical cul- ture entirely devoid of any ...
... idea of any general Synthesis . ( 4 ) The scientific and agnostic objections . Critic- ism from the evolutionary , materialist , and secularist schools , and the contrast of Positivism with Ethical cul- ture entirely devoid of any ...
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... idea of Positivism is simply this : that , until our dominant convictions can be got into one plane with our deepest affections and also with our practical ener- gies ; until our most sacred emotions , whether in our homes or in the ...
... idea of Positivism is simply this : that , until our dominant convictions can be got into one plane with our deepest affections and also with our practical ener- gies ; until our most sacred emotions , whether in our homes or in the ...
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... idea of Positivism is that our existing social economy is the result of defective intellectual training , neglected moral and religious training , and anarchical habits of practical life . And that no new social economy is possible at ...
... idea of Positivism is that our existing social economy is the result of defective intellectual training , neglected moral and religious training , and anarchical habits of practical life . And that no new social economy is possible at ...
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... idea of that which Comte called " at once a philosophy and a policy , " for it deals with Thought and Action . Religion , in the hands of a Theology in its dotage , has acquired , by popular use , a meaning so narrow and so artificial ...
... idea of that which Comte called " at once a philosophy and a policy , " for it deals with Thought and Action . Religion , in the hands of a Theology in its dotage , has acquired , by popular use , a meaning so narrow and so artificial ...
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... idea . One of the most eminent chiefs of the Catholic Church had carefully studied the Faith in Humanity — which he was wont to call it as a body of noble proportions and great dignity , from which the head had been vio- lently cut off ...
... idea . One of the most eminent chiefs of the Catholic Church had carefully studied the Faith in Humanity — which he was wont to call it as a body of noble proportions and great dignity , from which the head had been vio- lently cut off ...
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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...