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Page xii
... , and merely in order to throw light on our own . Controversy for the sake of victory is as useless as it is contemptible ; but the progress of religious and of philosophical truth has often been sig- nally xii INTRODUCTION.
... , and merely in order to throw light on our own . Controversy for the sake of victory is as useless as it is contemptible ; but the progress of religious and of philosophical truth has often been sig- nally xii INTRODUCTION.
Page xiii
Frederic Harrison. religious and of philosophical truth has often been sig- nally advanced by the instrument of genuine con- troversy , where the only end in view was honest , respect- ful , and searching comparison of opinions . The ...
Frederic Harrison. religious and of philosophical truth has often been sig- nally advanced by the instrument of genuine con- troversy , where the only end in view was honest , respect- ful , and searching comparison of opinions . The ...
Page xvi
... truths in a new and com- pendious way . It has really no bearing on competitive examinations , nor any relation to academic degrees . " Not to know - but to act " said the greatest of philo- sophers : and this is the practical motto of ...
... truths in a new and com- pendious way . It has really no bearing on competitive examinations , nor any relation to academic degrees . " Not to know - but to act " said the greatest of philo- sophers : and this is the practical motto of ...
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... truth , and civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon , George Fox and Ken , of Wesley and Whitefield , or rather in the ...
... truth , and civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon , George Fox and Ken , of Wesley and Whitefield , or rather in the ...
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... beauty , or its intellectual truth . Rewards and punishments are not much in fa- vour as great moralising engines . And we hear more of their potency from lay controversialists than from the higher 22 ORTHODOX CRITICISM (Continued) xi 1.
... beauty , or its intellectual truth . Rewards and punishments are not much in fa- vour as great moralising engines . And we hear more of their potency from lay controversialists than from the higher 22 ORTHODOX CRITICISM (Continued) xi 1.
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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...