The Idea of God and the Moral Sense in the Light of Language: Being a Philological Enquiry Into the Rise and Growth of Spiritual and Moral Concepts, Volumes 1-2

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Williams and Norgate, 1895 - 239 pagina's
 

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Pagina 25 - God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool...
Pagina 79 - Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
Pagina 72 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
Pagina 55 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Pagina 69 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o...
Pagina 15 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Pagina 17 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, And will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, And the valleys shall be cleft, As wax before the fire, And as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Pagina 236 - Wer darf ihn nennen? Und wer bekennen: Ich glaub' ihn. Wer empfinden Und sich unterwinden Zu sagen: ich glaub
Pagina 218 - Not only is the omnipresence of something which passes comprehension, that most abstract belief which is common to all religions, which becomes the more distinct in proportion as they develope, and which remains after their discordant elements have been mutually cancelled; but it is that belief which the most unsparing criticism of each leaves unquestionable — or rather makes ever clearer.
Pagina 79 - Duty ! Wondrous thought, that workest neither by fond insinuation, flattery, nor by any threat, but merely by holding up thy naked law in the soul, and so extorting for thyself always reverence, if not always obedience; before whom all appetites are dumb, however secretly they rebel ; whence thy original...

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