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... establishment . of a sort of National Urgency Committee composed ex- clusively of men of culture . Convinced though he was that the men of no culture had worked mischief enough , he thought that " the speech most proper at present for a ...
... establishment . of a sort of National Urgency Committee composed ex- clusively of men of culture . Convinced though he was that the men of no culture had worked mischief enough , he thought that " the speech most proper at present for a ...
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... Establishment men risk the peace of the Church and the repute of religion , now by rebellion against lawful authority , now by frivolous disputation about unessential matters of doctrine and ritual . But we are in the right , " say the ...
... Establishment men risk the peace of the Church and the repute of religion , now by rebellion against lawful authority , now by frivolous disputation about unessential matters of doctrine and ritual . But we are in the right , " say the ...
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... Establishment the principle of private judgment reigns still more supreme . The thirty - three sects of yesterday become thirty - four to - day , for some one has invented a new doctrine or unearthed an old one , and a church must be ...
... Establishment the principle of private judgment reigns still more supreme . The thirty - three sects of yesterday become thirty - four to - day , for some one has invented a new doctrine or unearthed an old one , and a church must be ...
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... Establishment crusades , marriage law re- forms in the special interest of those of their number who wish to marry their deceased wives ' sisters - things which yield neither the fruit nor the promise of " sweet- ness and light . " The ...
... Establishment crusades , marriage law re- forms in the special interest of those of their number who wish to marry their deceased wives ' sisters - things which yield neither the fruit nor the promise of " sweet- ness and light . " The ...
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... establishments which are more or less like Salem House and by educators who are more or less like Mr. Creakle . And the great mass of the middle part of our community , the part which comes between those who labour with their hands on ...
... establishments which are more or less like Salem House and by educators who are more or less like Mr. Creakle . And the great mass of the middle part of our community , the part which comes between those who labour with their hands on ...
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Page 52 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Page 14 - Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 168 - Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
Page 23 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords.
Page 18 - I say that the English reliance on our religious organisations and on their ideas of human perfection just as they stand, is like our reliance on freedom, on muscular Christianity, on population, on coal, on wealth, — mere belief in machinery, and unfruitful...
Page 143 - Religion, if we follow the intention of human thought and human language in the use of the word, is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit] up by feeling ; the passage from morality to religion is made when to morality is applied emotion. And the true meaning of religion is thus not morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Page 14 - There is a view in which all the love of our neighbour, the impulses towards action, help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it...
Page 98 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...