Modern Civilisation in Relation to Christianity: A Series of EssaysWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1864 - 128 sider |
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... presents us only with the lucid concentration of a wide - spread phase of current opinion . There are many other features and tendencies of modern society , as well as of modern thought , which the writer would have wished to treat of ...
... presents us only with the lucid concentration of a wide - spread phase of current opinion . There are many other features and tendencies of modern society , as well as of modern thought , which the writer would have wished to treat of ...
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... present scene it must be confined . As it recognises nothing above man , it cannot take account of anything beyond his present life . IV . UTILITARIANISM - PROVING TOO MUCH . It will not be difficult to apprehend that , whatever other ...
... present scene it must be confined . As it recognises nothing above man , it cannot take account of anything beyond his present life . IV . UTILITARIANISM - PROVING TOO MUCH . It will not be difficult to apprehend that , whatever other ...
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... presents before us as an Utopian dream . V. - UTILITARIANISM IN ITS ULTIMATE CLAIMS AND DEVELOPMENT . IN our second paper we laid it down as the fun lamental principle of an equable and all - embracing Civilization , that it must rest ...
... presents before us as an Utopian dream . V. - UTILITARIANISM IN ITS ULTIMATE CLAIMS AND DEVELOPMENT . IN our second paper we laid it down as the fun lamental principle of an equable and all - embracing Civilization , that it must rest ...
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... present pleasure , or advantage , but often in the face of present hardship , pain , and loss . That this devotion should ultimately yield , and itself become , the highest happiness of which our nature is capable , is only the most ...
... present pleasure , or advantage , but often in the face of present hardship , pain , and loss . That this devotion should ultimately yield , and itself become , the highest happiness of which our nature is capable , is only the most ...
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... meals a - day , and sinks in the meridian of life . So do thousands of all ranks and conditions of men . C The evil has grown so rapidly , and presses so intensely , that the present THE TRUE LAW OF CIVILIZATION . 21.
... meals a - day , and sinks in the meridian of life . So do thousands of all ranks and conditions of men . C The evil has grown so rapidly , and presses so intensely , that the present THE TRUE LAW OF CIVILIZATION . 21.
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