 ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and, to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution...  On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Adaptation ... - Page 38by Thomas Chalmers - 1833 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David George Ritchie - 1903 - 332 pages
...the faculty which surveys, approves, or disapproves of the several affections of our minds, etc." " To preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it." It is the legal theory of the English Yet there is this all -import ant difference between the appeal... | |
 | John Dewey - 1903 - 412 pages
...conscience in its aspect of a moral perceptive faculty are the words of Bishop Butler sensibly true that "to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it.'" Even in cases of more serious moral difficulty this sanctioning aspect of the means and conditions... | |
 | John Dewey - 1903 - 408 pages
...conscience in its aspect of a moral perceptive faculty are the words of Bishop Butler sensibly true that "to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it."1 Even in cases of more serious moral difficulty this sanctioning aspect of the means and conditions... | |
 | William Edington Taylor - 1903 - 88 pages
...faculty, Conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendence. This conjunction with thought is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself. And " had Conscience but strength as it has right, had it power as it has manifest authority, it would... | |
 | William Salter - 1904 - 196 pages
...God as revelation is. To preside and govern, from the constitution of man, belongs to the conscience. Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it has authority, it would absolutely govern the world. Love and charity is plainly the thing in which our... | |
 | William Salter - 1907 - 374 pages
...goodness, that vice and wickedness are without excuse. He taught the supremacy of conscience, and said, " Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it has authority, it would absolutely govern the world." He taught that conciliation and harmony among our... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it had right; had it power, as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world. This gives... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 636 pages
...be interpreted in the light of his frequent assertions of the natural superiority of conscience. ' To preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it,' he says. ' Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1915 - 998 pages
...form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superin tendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of...govern, from the very economy and constitution of man,belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right, had it power, as it has manifest authority, it... | |
 | Henry Waldgrave Stuart - 1918 - 126 pages
...conscience in its aspect of a moral perceptive faculty are the words of Bishop Butler sensibly true that "to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it." 1 Even in cases of more serious moral difficulty this sanctioning aspect of the means and conditions... | |
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