Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History

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W. Mullan, 1877 - 402 стор.

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Сторінка 101 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 175 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, — He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just.
Сторінка x - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Сторінка 104 - Thus by the persistence of force, we really mean the persistence of some Power which transcends our knowledge and conception.
Сторінка 385 - One breathed calmly, self-sustained : nor else beyond It lay. Gloom hid in gloom existed first — one sea eluding view. That One, a void in chaos wrapt, by inward fervour grew. Within It first arose desire, the primal germ of mind, Which nothing with existence links, as sages searching find. The kindling ray that shot across the dark and drear abyss, — Was it beneath ? Or high aloft ? What bard can answer this? There fecundating powers were found, and mighty forces strove, A self-supporting mass...
Сторінка 385 - Then there was neither aught nor naught, no air nor sky beyond. What covered all ? Where rested all ? In watery gulf profound ? Nor death was then, nor deathlessness, not change of night and day, That One breathed calmly, self-sustained ; nought else beyond it lay. Gloom hid in gloom existed first — one sea, eluding view. That one, a void in chaos wrapt, by inward fervour grew.
Сторінка 107 - In fact, the whole process of evolution is the manifestation of a power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man. As little in our day as in the days of Job can man by searching find this power out. Considered fundamentally, it is by the operation of an insoluble mystery that life is evolved, species differentiated, and mind unfolded from their prepotent elements in the immeasurable past.
Сторінка 17 - The rudimentary form of all religion is the propitiation of dead ancestors, who are supposed to be still existing, and to be capable of working good or evil to their descendants.
Сторінка 137 - Place me, O purified god, in that everlasting and imperishable world where there is eternal light and glory.
Сторінка 367 - The whole language resembles the body of an artistically trained athlete, in which every muscle, every sinew, is developed into full play, where there is no trace of tumidity or of inert matter, and all is power and life.

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