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... inspired by religion , our religion is not founded on science , and our practical conduct is most imperfectly guided either by religion or by science . The paramount conception of Positivism is the Synthesis , or harmonising of all ...
... inspired by religion , our religion is not founded on science , and our practical conduct is most imperfectly guided either by religion or by science . The paramount conception of Positivism is the Synthesis , or harmonising of all ...
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... inspire some nobly religious lives ; and it maintains yet great religious in- stitutions , forces , and habits . Even in our public life , where its influence is least pure and least efficient , it maintains the spirit of charity ...
... inspire some nobly religious lives ; and it maintains yet great religious in- stitutions , forces , and habits . Even in our public life , where its influence is least pure and least efficient , it maintains the spirit of charity ...
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... inspire life . Christianity does : ethical religion does : Positivism does . The religion of Humanity stands on the same ground as the religion of Christ - springs out of the same sources , works toward the same ends . It occupies the ...
... inspire life . Christianity does : ethical religion does : Positivism does . The religion of Humanity stands on the same ground as the religion of Christ - springs out of the same sources , works toward the same ends . It occupies the ...
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... inspire . I am not conscious of any break in spiritual life as I look back on that . I have never felt any abrupt ... inspired by the same order of spiritual influences , as when ORTHODOX CRITICISM 3.
... inspire . I am not conscious of any break in spiritual life as I look back on that . I have never felt any abrupt ... inspired by the same order of spiritual influences , as when ORTHODOX CRITICISM 3.
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... inspired with the same spiritual influences - full of the same hopes ? Rather with much clearer , wider , more abiding influ- ences . The Real Presence of Humanity needs no imag- inative ecstasy to reveal it : it is in every beautiful ...
... inspired with the same spiritual influences - full of the same hopes ? Rather with much clearer , wider , more abiding influ- ences . The Real Presence of Humanity needs no imag- inative ecstasy to reveal it : it is in every beautiful ...
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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...