 ... itself a matter of little importance. Whether they say God, or prefer to say Nature, the important thing is that their minds are filled with the sense of a Power to all appearance infinite and eternal, a Power to which their own being is inseparably...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 771875Full view - About this book
 | 1875 - 582 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and wellbeing, in the contemplation of which...author of Nature, in either case Nature is divine, fur it is either God or the work of God. This whole domain is common to science and theology. When... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Natural theology - 1882 - 312 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and well-being, in the contemplation of which...Whether with science you stop short at Nature, or with Christianity believe in a God who is the author of Nature, in either case Nature is divine, for it... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Natural theology - 1882 - 322 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and well-being, in the contemplation of which...Whether with science you stop short at Nature, or with Christianity believe in a God who is the author of Nature, in either case Nature is divine, for it... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - Natural theology - 1882 - 276 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and wellbeing, in the contemplation of which...God is also the God of Christians. That the God of Christians-is something more does not affect this fact. Nature, according to all systems of Christian... | |
 | English literature - 1882 - 598 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and wellbeing, in the contemplation of which...vision. Well ! this God is also the God of Christians.' The Nature contemplated by science having been thus identified with the God worshipped in religion,... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Natural theology - 1883 - 104 pages
...Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is \ safety and wellbeing, in the contemplation of which they find a beatific vision." 1 You will observe, then, that the new God has four characteristics, which, according to our au1 Pp.... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Europe - 1883 - 352 pages
...a power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and well-being, in the contemplation of which they find a beatific vision." Atheism, then, is not the belief in such a God as this, but the denial of Him; it is to be without... | |
 | Charles Gore - Christianity - 1891 - 336 pages
...common ground of Science and Christianity in a belief in Nature. Cf. Natural Religion, pp. 22, 23 : ' Nature, according to all systems of Christian theology,...Whether with Science you stop short at Nature, or with Christianity believe in a God who is the author of Nature, in either case Nature is divine, for it... | |
 | J. Morris - Evolution - 1896 - 418 pages
...a Power to which their own being is inseparably connected, in the knowledge of whose ways alone is safety and well-being, in the contemplation of which they find a beatific vision." 1 Such is the groundwork of the religious conception of nature which the author says " seems to be... | |
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