| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pagina’s
...Works, m. 267, 'Certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes. . . But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pagina’s
...; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy,... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 538 pagina’s
...is a sentence in the Advancement of Learning, — his earliest great work. The passage there is, " A little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, &c. ; " which is absurd, if it were insisted on by Campbell. (I suppose Pope's " A little learning... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 526 pagina’s
...which is a sentence in the Advancement of Learning,—his earliest great work. The passage there is, " A little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, &c.;" which is absurd, if it were insisted on by Campbell. (I suppose Pope's " A little learning is... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 546 pagina’s
...which is a sentence in the Advancement of Learning,—his earliest great work. The passage there is, " A little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, &c.; " which is absurd, if it were insisted on by Campbell. (I suppose Pope's " A little learning is... | |
| James McCosh - 1880 - 572 pagina’s
...Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion ol experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pagina’s
...iii. 267, 'Certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes. . . But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy,... | |
| Noah Porter - 1882 - 530 pagina’s
...in his image. But our study has been too much prolonged. We conclude with the words of Lord Bacon: "It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion; for on the... | |
| William Page Wood Baron Hatherley - 1883 - 354 pagina’s
...phenomena, was an atheistic eternisation of matter, upon which he quoted the remarks of Lord Bacon : ' It is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience...proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again VOL. H. F to religion, for in the entrance of philosophy when the several causes which are next unto... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1883 - 604 pagina’s
...the conceit that too much knowledge should incline a man to atheism .... it is an assured truth and conclusion of experience that a little or superficial...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion." f III. The alleged historical... | |
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