Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... faith . There I feel that nothing can befall me in life , no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which Nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air , and uplifted into infinite space ...
... faith . There I feel that nothing can befall me in life , no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which Nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , my head bathed by the blithe air , and uplifted into infinite space ...
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... faith- fully renders the likeness of the world . Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is ...
... faith- fully renders the likeness of the world . Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is ...
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... faith of man . Whether Nature enjoy a substantial existence without , or is only in the apocalypse of the mind , it is alike useful and alike venerable to me . Be it what it may , it is ideal to me , so long as I cannot try the accuracy ...
... faith of man . Whether Nature enjoy a substantial existence without , or is only in the apocalypse of the mind , it is alike useful and alike venerable to me . Be it what it may , it is ideal to me , so long as I cannot try the accuracy ...
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... faith in the stability of particular phenomena , as of heat , water , azote , but to lead us to regard Nature as a phenomenon , not a sub- stance , to attribute necessary existence to spirit -to esteem Nature as an accident and an ...
... faith in the stability of particular phenomena , as of heat , water , azote , but to lead us to regard Nature as a phenomenon , not a sub- stance , to attribute necessary existence to spirit -to esteem Nature as an accident and an ...
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... faith that a law determines all phenomena , which , being known , the phenomena can be pre- dicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The true philosopher and the true poet are one ; and a beauty ...
... faith that a law determines all phenomena , which , being known , the phenomena can be pre- dicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The true philosopher and the true poet are one ; and a beauty ...
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