 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 658 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to ' it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 pages
...who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it. ... I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. He does criticize his father for a lack of tenderness towards his children, saying that he "resembled... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 pages
...never had it: I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me." Mill nonchalantly tells us, "History had made the variety of opinions among mankind a fact familiar... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 198 pages
...nostalgically to the lost Christianity of their youth. Mill said that "I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - 2010 - 578 pages
...religious belief, but never had it"; in fact, he said, he looked upon the modern religion "exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me."26 John Stuart described how his father rejected revealed religion as contrary to reason, and after... | |
 | 1874 - 932 pages
...binding him to Christians, in that ho could understand the believer's state of mind. The son could look upon the modern exactly as he did upon the ancient...religion, as something which in no way concerned him. But what sort of intellectual training had the boy so peculiarly situated ? He begins the study of... | |
 | 1874 - 500 pages
...never had it ; I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me." In fact he was cradled in scepticism ; he took it in with his father's first words. Nor was it... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 820 pages
...one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never had it I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me." Then further on, he says, " My father's moral convictions, wholly dissevered from religion, were... | |
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I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that the men I read of in Herodotus should have... 
