The Religious Sense in Its Scientific AspectA. C. Armstrong, 1903 - 243 pages |
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The Religious Sense in Its Scientific Aspect (Classic Reprint) Greville Macdonald Aucun aperçu disponible - 2018 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
admit æsthetics agnosticism altruism amoeba answer argument attained bees believe claim common consciousness creation daisy declare deep definite desire egoism environment essential eternal Law ethical evolution evolved exalted fact faculty florets flowers FORAMINIFERA forms fulfilling function further germinal give growth hold idea ideal impelled individual inheritance insects inspiration instinct intellectual intent justify knowledge labour Law's needs less lives man's manifest mighty mind mollusc mundane nature neuters Novum Organum obedience obey object outcome passive philosophers pistil poet pollen possess possibility proclaim protestantism protoplasm purpose question reality RELIGION OF RENUNCIATION RELIGION OF SERVICE religious sense relinquished revealed save in virtue scientific scientist seek serve Simon de Montfort simplification society soul special creation species spirit sponge sponge-sarcode spongilla Stephen Langton structure things tion transcendental transcendental ideal transcending truth uncon understanding unknown utilitarian Venus's flower-basket Viburnum Opulus viduals vital wild guelder-rose wisdom words
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Page 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 132 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page iii - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it...
Page 229 - Unless I be convinced," he said, "by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract anything, for my conscience is a captive to God's word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. There I take my stand. I can do no otherwise. So help me, God. Amen.
Page 35 - The religious sense, whether passive or active, is that acknowledgment of the Law which compels all creatures possessing the sense to work or live for objects or attainments, be they immediate or prospective, in which the individual has no personal concern, save perhaps in exalted specimens of the species Man.
Page iv - ... of forming any determination upon an opinion of this our work either from his own perceptions, or the crowd of authorities, or the forms of demonstrations, he will not expect to be able to do so in a cursory manner, and whilst attending to other matters ; but in order to have a thorough knowledge of the subject, will himself, by degrees, attempt the course which we describe and maintain; will be accustomed to the subtilty of things which is manifested by experience; and will correct the depraved...
Page 215 - He who best trusts his religion will least resent its being studied with the scalpel, test-tube, and microscope of scientific precision. It is, I believe, by the scientific method that we shall serve best the philosophic understanding of the religious sense...
Page 70 - in order to understand what had taken place in the past, or what will happen in the future, we have but to observe what is going on in the present.
Page 49 - Each rootlet is terminated by living protoplasmic cells, structureless and identical, that of the bean with that of the wheat. Yet each differs in this extraordinary although obviously essential fact : that the minute servant-cells of the wheat select from the soil flint for the strengthening of the straw, while the bean's gleaners of its food reject the flint as unnecessary.
Page 92 - Man has become, in measure great or small, a conscious partaker in the mighty work of the eternal, though its purposes are unknown to him ; and, in this high responsibility and conscious sharing in the building of the eternal city, he attains freedom, even though the glories of the city are hidden from him, because, like the sponge-sarcodes, he is still chained to his labour.