The Evidences of Natural Religion & the Truths Established TherebyHodder & Stoughton, 1882 - 156 pages |
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action Ahriman animal appears Aryan race attainment attributes belief body brain Buddhism cause cerebral cerebral hemispheres Cerebrum chap conceived Confucius consciousness constitution and course course of nature death Deity Dhammapada Divine doctrine effect element endeavour enquiry evidence exercise existence expression fact faculties faith function Gautama human nature hypothesis ideas immaterial immortality individual inferred influence instance instinct instrument intelligence irreligion knowledge Laou-tsze living manifestation mankind Marduk material universe matter Max Müller medulla oblongata mental mind monotheism monotheistic moral evil moral government Natural Religion Nirvaña notion object observed operate organism origin perception Phædo phenomena physical forces polytheism possess present primordial cell psychical punishment qualities regarded relation respect result retributive justice revelation sacrifice sensation sense sensual soul spiritual substance superintending force supposed Supreme Taou tendency in human termed theory tion truth virtue vital activity vital force volition W. K. Clifford worship
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Page 23 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 150 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 11 - The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded It...
Page 95 - Admitting to the full as highly probable, though not completely demonstrated, the applicability to living beings of the laws which have been ascertained with reference to dead matter, I feel constrained, at the same time, to admit the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond — a something...
Page 115 - ... namely, the chemical action of the atmosphere. When those substances are wanting, whose function in the organism is to support the process of respiration ; when the diseased organs are incapable of performing their proper function of producing these substances ; when they have lost the power of transforming the food into that shape in which it may, by...
Page 63 - O my lord," says one suppliant, " my sins are many, my trespasses are great ; and the wrath of the gods has plagued me with disease, and sickness, and sorrow. I fainted, but no one stretched forth his hand ; I groaned, but no one drew nigh ; I cried aloud, but no one heard. O Lord, do not thou abandon thy servant. In the waters of the great storm do thou lay hold of his hand. The sins which he has committed do thou turn to righteousness.
Page 96 - Fetch me from thence a fruit of the Nyagrodha tree." " Here is one, Sir." " Break it."
Page 71 - How then can man be justified with God ? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman ? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm ? And the son of man, which is a worm...
Page 5 - Tataric, and Finnic tribes. Everywhere we find a worship of the spirits of nature, of the spirits of the departed, though behind and above it there rises the belief in some higher power, known by different names, sometimes called the Father, the Old One, who is the Maker and Protector of the world, and who always resides in heaven.
Page 9 - Taou is exceedingly plain, but the people like the foot-paths," said Laou-tsze (chapter 53). But it is more than the way. It is the way and the way-goer. It is an eternal road; along it all beings and things walk ; but no being made it, for it is Being itself; it is everything and nothing, and the cause and effect of all. All things originate from Taou, conform to Taou, and to Taou at last they return.