 | Victor Cousin - 1832 - 496 pages
...recorded in history, are the decrees of this government, revealed to humanity by its own history, and promulgated by the voice of time. History is the manifestation of God's providential views in respect to humanity ; the judgments of history are the judgments of God himself.... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...great facts of history are the decrees of this government revealed to humanity by its own history, and promulgated by the voice of Time. History is the manifestation of God's providential views in relation to humanity; the judgments of history are the judgments of God himself.... | |
 | 1856 - 984 pages
...this necessity is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention of Providence in human affairs, a demonstration of a moral government of the world....judgments of history are the judgments of God himself.* " If history is the government of God made visible, every thing is there in its place ; and if every... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pages
...this necessity is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention of Providence in human affairs, a demonstration of a moral government of the world....judgments of history are the judgments of God himself."* * History of Philosophy, translated by Wight, p. 159. "If history is the government of God made visible,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1859 - 410 pages
...in fact, is the position practically taken by Cousin himself. "History," he tells us in one place, "is the manifestation of God's supervision of humanity;...judgments of history are the judgments of God himself."^ Let us take, as an illustration of this, the way he claims war as a Divine evolution. " Wars and battles... | |
 | Victor Cousin - 1872 - 468 pages
...Providence. It is because God or Providence is in nature, that nature has its necessary laws; it i.. ["'cause Providence is in humanity and in history, that humanity...intelligence in his essence, in his eternal movement, and in bis fundamental motive principles. Now, if history is the government of God made visible, every thing... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1883 - 614 pages
...great facta of history arc the decrees of this government revealed to humanity by its own history, aud promulgated by the voice of time. History is the manifestation of God's providential views in relation to humanity ; the judgments of history are the judgments of God himself.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1855 - 576 pages
...external and physical fatalism, and by which they disfigure the Divine Wisdom as exemplified in the world, is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention...the manifestation of God's supervision of humanity." If, then, philosophy recognizes the Divine supervision and control of human events, we may learn from... | |
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This necessity, which the vulgar accuse, which they confound with external and physical fatality, and by which they designate and disfigure the divine Wisdom, applied to the world, this necessity is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention of... 