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... 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 , compassion , and loyalty . And in ...
... 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 , compassion , and loyalty . And in ...
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... lives , are false and degrading sentiments . If the influence of the Social Organism over individual man is without scientific evi- dence , there may be superstition . But if we have this evidence , then it is superstition to suppress ...
... lives , are false and degrading sentiments . If the influence of the Social Organism over individual man is without scientific evi- dence , there may be superstition . But if we have this evidence , then it is superstition to suppress ...
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... lives can be dedicated . Both hold that the sense of this omnipresent Power can be cultivated , that individual consciences can be trained in it , till it becomes a second nature ; that by organised institutions communities of men ...
... lives can be dedicated . Both hold that the sense of this omnipresent Power can be cultivated , that individual consciences can be trained in it , till it becomes a second nature ; that by organised institutions communities of men ...
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... live worthy lives without such things . Earnest , practical natures gradually outlive a perpetual Perhaps . Again - it is historic fact that some of the most power- ful characters , some of the most permanent societies recorded , have ...
... live worthy lives without such things . Earnest , practical natures gradually outlive a perpetual Perhaps . Again - it is historic fact that some of the most power- ful characters , some of the most permanent societies recorded , have ...
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... live in the greater human future , in the glory of which our single lives form indestructible units . we find the best Christians around us purifying their ancient creeds of a personal admission to glory and transforming it into a ...
... live in the greater human future , in the glory of which our single lives form indestructible units . we find the best Christians around us purifying their ancient creeds of a personal admission to glory and transforming it into a ...
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The Positive Evolution of Religion: Its Moral and Social Reaction Frederic Harrison No preview available - 1913 |
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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...