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Page xvi
... less mistaken who suppose that the end of Positivism is to clear up some philosophical conun- drums : to tabulate the sciences to the satisfaction of learned specialists , to enable the public to classify the sciences , or to arrive at ...
... less mistaken who suppose that the end of Positivism is to clear up some philosophical conun- drums : to tabulate the sciences to the satisfaction of learned specialists , to enable the public to classify the sciences , or to arrive at ...
Page xvii
... The ordinary modes of describing Positivism in a phrase are all of them more or less misleading . If we speak of it as a " philosophy , " we put aside its practical 1 and spiritual aim . If we regard it as INTRODUCTION xvii.
... The ordinary modes of describing Positivism in a phrase are all of them more or less misleading . If we speak of it as a " philosophy , " we put aside its practical 1 and spiritual aim . If we regard it as INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... less than with phases of belief which aim at being anti - orthodox and hardly call themselves religion . We mean the same thing as the Churches mean . Christianity , in ideal at least , can still be spoken of as a religion . Stunted and ...
... less than with phases of belief which aim at being anti - orthodox and hardly call themselves religion . We mean the same thing as the Churches mean . Christianity , in ideal at least , can still be spoken of as a religion . Stunted and ...
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... less than the transcendental glorification to the individual soul ; and no religious as- surance outside of the Word of God , or the Voice of the Church . The essence of the religion of Humanity is to place it upon a less sublime but ...
... less than the transcendental glorification to the individual soul ; and no religious as- surance outside of the Word of God , or the Voice of the Church . The essence of the religion of Humanity is to place it upon a less sublime but ...
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... less than Almighty , Infinite " and Perfect . " Such is the ordinary language of the pulpit . Well ! this is a matter of experience , of observation , of fact . Such is not the teaching of history 12 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
... less than Almighty , Infinite " and Perfect . " Such is the ordinary language of the pulpit . Well ! this is a matter of experience , of observation , of fact . Such is not the teaching of history 12 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
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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...