It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to... Tales - Page 342by Harriet Martineau - 1836Full view - About this book
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...enlightened them, were it only by the light which the human understanding put into these books. " It is impossible that any other book could have been so...man, however his understanding feels convinced of a continually better futurity, will still not be necessitated to draw motives of conduct from this... | |
| Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr - 1866 - 456 pages
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination, and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." Hear it, O materialistic age, that recognizcst and prizest only those investigations which are directed... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
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| James Sime - Authors, German - 1877 - 394 pages
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained... | |
| James Sime - Authors, German - 1896 - 388 pages
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
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| Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
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| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 378 pages
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| Thomas P. Saine - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...practiced "on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone" (§80). Any attempt to transcend divisions by enforcing a universal unity would end in refragmentation... | |
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