Personality and Theism: Two EssaysJohn Wilson and son, 1887 - 52 стор. |
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abstract formulæ action animal kingdom anthropomorphism appears to spiritual Astronomy believe blessedness brain brute creation cern character Cicero craves creature deity demonstration Devil diffused consciousness distinct divine dogma earth earthly Essays BY FREDERIC Eternal evil existence experience Faith Faraday finite fleshly fortune God-forsaken world Godhead ground heaven holy human form human organism idea immortal implied individual influence innermost keeps all Nature's kind Leibniz manifestation material universe mind moral government moral law moral order moral world Natural Theology Nature's difference keeps ness never non-natural object Occam order of Nature ourselves pain PERSONALITY AND THEISM philosophy prayer proof ques question realm reason cannot follow reflex action reign religion reward ruler satisfaction says Von Hartmann scholastic philosophy Science scious scorpion self-consciousness soul Spinoza spirit spiritual vision suppliant Swedenborg Swedenborg's sense THEISM Two Essays theologians things remain thought tinguish tion uncon Unfeeling is Nature virtue vox relativa
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Сторінка 13 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Сторінка 13 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Сторінка 4 - ... the two. For ordinary purposes we are justified in so doing, since all we can know of individuals is their persons, their manifestation of themselves to the eye or ear. Only it behooves us to remember that there is something deeper in man than his person, and that though the person is the outbirth of the individual, is constituted by the individual, it nevertheless is not the individual, is not identical with the innermost being, but something exterior and distinct.
Сторінка 34 - Conquests of time and space have no-wise facilitated the conquest of self. It is nearer to Japan than it was seventy years ago, but as far as ever to the peace of God.
Сторінка 34 - The world which Science occupies with her lenses and crucibles, is ringed and washed by a sea of wonder, navigable only to Faith. The former science is the sum of those views which are verifiable by sense ; the latter is the sum of those views which are not verifiable by sense. Which of the two is the larger domain? Science has no knowledge of the future.
Сторінка 18 - However my philosophy may formulate its concepts of deity, the God whom I worship is a God who sees and hears, and thinks and loves, and pities and approves.
Сторінка 30 - Life has two prizes which it offers to man's choice, — having, and being ; having part in the goods of life, and being part of the absolute Good.
Сторінка 29 - I know of but one, — they increase in themselves the amount of being ; that is, of Godhead. The end of all right doing is to greaten the sum of being.
Сторінка 7 - There is a time, varying, I suppose, from the second to the fourth year, when a human individual first says to himself,