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... sense , we fail to convey to the ordinary public the 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 ...
... sense , we fail to convey to the ordinary public the 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 ...
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... sense of personal relation to God and to Christ which the sacra- ments and the services of the Church inspire . I am not conscious of any break in spiritual life as I look back on that . I have never felt any abrupt revul- sion in the ...
... sense of personal relation to God and to Christ which the sacra- ments and the services of the Church inspire . I am not conscious of any break in spiritual life as I look back on that . I have never felt any abrupt revul- sion in the ...
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... sense of gratitude and respect for the Social Organism on which we depend and in which our lives by inevitable laws are incorporate . Wide as the gulf appears to be which separates the belief in Humanity from the Orthodox creeds , the ...
... sense of gratitude and respect for the Social Organism on which we depend and in which our lives by inevitable laws are incorporate . Wide as the gulf appears to be which separates the belief in Humanity from the Orthodox creeds , the ...
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... sense of a dominant and beneficent Power over us , to whom all our acts can be referred , to whom we continually turn for help , and to whom our entire lives can be dedicated . Both hold that the sense of this omnipresent Power can be ...
... sense of a dominant and beneficent Power over us , to whom all our acts can be referred , to whom we continually turn for help , and to whom our entire lives can be dedicated . Both hold that the sense of this omnipresent Power can be ...
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... sense of the inmost hopes , beliefs , and yearnings of the heart ) must be stimulated by constant appeals and by every instrument that can awaken conscience . And especially that the profound meaning of Death , and all that it implies ...
... sense of the inmost hopes , beliefs , and yearnings of the heart ) must be stimulated by constant appeals and by every instrument that can awaken conscience . And especially that the profound meaning of Death , and all that it implies ...
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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...