Three New Concepts: Religion and Authority: the Correct Concepts, Also, a Hitherto Unnamed Mental Faculty

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R.E. Wood, 1901 - 40 sayfa
 

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Sayfa vii - Let him duly realize the fact that opinion is the agency through which character adapts external arrangements to itself — that his opinion rightly forms part of this agency — is a unit of force, constituting, with other such units, the general power which works out social changes ; and he will perceive that he may properly give full utterance to his innermost conviction : leaving it to produce what effect it may.
Sayfa viii - He, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies through whom works the Unknown Cause ; and when the Unknown Cause produces in him a certain belief, he is thereby authorized to profess and act out that belief.
Sayfa viii - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Sayfa 38 - And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?" If any so-called religion takes away from this great saying of Micah, I think it wantonly mutilates, while, if it adds thereto, I think it obscures, the perfect ideal of religion.
Sayfa viii - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Sayfa viii - Not as adventitious, therefore, will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter ; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world, — knowing that, if he can effect the change he aims at, well : if not, well also, though not so welL" VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE WOMAN QUESTION.
Sayfa 6 - a belief binding the spiritual nature of man to a supernatural being on whom he is conscious that he is dependent...
Sayfa 31 - Yet, if we are to judge with equity between these rival claimants, we must not forget that it is Authority rather than Reason to which, in the main, we owe, not religion only, but ethics and politics ; that it is Authority which supplies us with essential elements in the premises of science ; that it is Authority rather than Reason which lays deep the foundations of social life ; that it is Authority rather than Reason which cements its superstructure.
Sayfa 31 - No two people agree as to what is meant by the term " religion" ; but if it means, as I think it ought to mean, simply the reverence and love for the ethical ideal, and the desire to realize that ideal in life...
Sayfa 5 - The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god...

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