Lectures Against Socialism: Delivered Under the Direction of the Committee of the London City MissionL. & G. Seeley, 1840 - Christian socialism |
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... propositions , by demonstration founded upon self- evident principles and we are not bound to answer mere difficulties , which , implying no contradiction , may subsist with truth ; because every thing , however obvious even to the ...
... propositions , by demonstration founded upon self- evident principles and we are not bound to answer mere difficulties , which , implying no contradiction , may subsist with truth ; because every thing , however obvious even to the ...
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... propositions that constitute universal truth , the one which you want may be , that there is a God . If you cannot with certainty assign the cause of all you perceive to exist , that cause may be a God . If you do not know everything ...
... propositions that constitute universal truth , the one which you want may be , that there is a God . If you cannot with certainty assign the cause of all you perceive to exist , that cause may be a God . If you do not know everything ...
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... Proposition seems very evident . It is no more than this , that whatever is not impossible is possible , and that nothing appears in the nature of things impossible but what includes a contradiction . It does not suppose actual ...
... Proposition seems very evident . It is no more than this , that whatever is not impossible is possible , and that nothing appears in the nature of things impossible but what includes a contradiction . It does not suppose actual ...
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... PROPOSITION III . Some Existence is necessary , if any Existence is possible . All possible Existence is either contingent or necessary , by Proposition second.§ If all Existence is contingent , and none necessary , all Existence may ...
... PROPOSITION III . Some Existence is necessary , if any Existence is possible . All possible Existence is either contingent or necessary , by Proposition second.§ If all Existence is contingent , and none necessary , all Existence may ...
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... Proposition it will follow , that contingent Existence depends upon necessary existence for its Being , and all Qualities and Powers arising from it ; and vice versa , that necessary Existence cannot depend on contingent Existence for ...
... Proposition it will follow , that contingent Existence depends upon necessary existence for its Being , and all Qualities and Powers arising from it ; and vice versa , that necessary Existence cannot depend on contingent Existence for ...
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Page 14 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 8 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 52 - There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 32 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 43 - Is there a man whose judgment clear, Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave; Here pause — and, thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave.
Page 44 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 47 - Shall we suppose the evangelical history a mere fiction? Indeed, my friend, it bears not the marks of fiction : on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without...
Page 27 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 55 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 23 - tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all, retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is. the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we rind, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.