The Works of Theodore Parker: Theism, atheism and the popular theologyAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 |
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Page 101
... selfishness ; I mean the enthroning of selfishness as the leading practical principle of life . The atheist is to look on every faculty as an instrument of pleasure or profit ; to look on his life as a means of selfishness and no more ...
... selfishness ; I mean the enthroning of selfishness as the leading practical principle of life . The atheist is to look on every faculty as an instrument of pleasure or profit ; to look on his life as a means of selfishness and no more ...
Page 103
... selfishness . This condition affords an opportunity for developing and enjoying some of the highest qualities of man . Passion is instinctive , and affection also is instinctive at first ; but as man develops himself by culture , as the ...
... selfishness . This condition affords an opportunity for developing and enjoying some of the highest qualities of man . Passion is instinctive , and affection also is instinctive at first ; but as man develops himself by culture , as the ...
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... selfishness of men . For by this hypothesis , there is a body without a soul , a here but no hereafter , a world without a God . Men will be consciously held together , in a negative manner , by the mutual and universal repulsion of ...
... selfishness of men . For by this hypothesis , there is a body without a soul , a here but no hereafter , a world without a God . Men will be consciously held together , in a negative manner , by the mutual and universal repulsion of ...
Contents
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CON | 1 |
OF SPECULATIVE ATHEISM REGARDED AS | 59 |
OF PRACTICAL ATHEISM REGARDED AS | 87 |
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