A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1888 |
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Page xxi - Religion is a belief in an everlasting God; that is, a Divine mind and will, ruling the Universe, and holding moral relations with mankind.
Page 271 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through...
Page 333 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Page 299 - In short, the shape and structure of the teeth regulate the forms of the condyle, of the shoulder-blade, and of the claws, in the same manner as the equation of a curve regulates all its other properties ; and, as in regard to any particular curve, all its properties may be ascertained by assuming each separate property as the foundation of a particular equation ; in the same manner, a claw, a shoulderblade, a condyle, a leg or...
Page 20 - Will : 5. e. conscience may act as human, before it is discovered to be divine. To the agent himself its whole history may seem to lie in his own personality and his visible social relations ; and it shall nevertheless serve as his oracle, though it be hid from him who it is that utters it.
Page 11 - ... which has become the commonplace of our age, it is well to remember that, so long as they are dreams of future possibility, and not faiths in present...
Page 271 - I remember that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him, which was but a little while before he died, what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the...
Page 78 - J.— Life and Letters. With an Introduction by Sir W. W. GULL, Bart., and Portrait engraved on Steel by CH Jeens.
Page 25 - The rule of right, the symmetries of character, the requirements of perfection, are no provincialisms of this planet : they are known among the stars...
Page 222 - There is therefore some other mind wherein they exist, during the intervals between the times of my perceiving them : as likewise they did before my birth, and would do after my supposed annihilation. And as the same is true with regard to all other finite created spirits, it necessarily follows, there is an omnipresent, eternal Mind, which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view in such a manner, and according to such rules as he himself hath ordained, and are by us termed...