 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...they, were observing, and that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of man, are facts... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 882 pages
...were observing ; and that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of men, are facts... | |
 | Bible - 1872 - 822 pages
...were observing ; a.nd that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of men, are facts... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 pages
...they were observing, and that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of man, are facts... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1870 - 868 pages
...unconscious of the decomposition going on around them, and who for three centuries treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been the most powerful lever that has been applied to the aflkirs of mankind. We must remember that the... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 736 pages
...surprise that the philosophers and historians should have been blind to the presence in Christianity of "an agency which all men must now admit to have been,...powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to theaffairs of men." What he calls western civilization is chiefly marked by Christian ideas and the... | |
 | History - 1883 - 540 pages
...they were observing, and that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of man, are facts... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1890 - 508 pages
...they were observing, and that, during the space of three centuries, they should have treated as simply contemptible an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of man, are facts... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1894 - 368 pages
...they were observing, and that during the space of three centuries they should have treated as simply contemptible, an agency which all men must now admit...meditation in every period of religious transition." l When the mists with which prejudice and controversy have surrounded this remarkable epoch in the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1895 - 1020 pages
...factor is only found in Christianity, which Mr. Lecky styles, in his History of European Morals, " the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of men." It is true that Christianity has been, and is being, assailed in every direction by powerful foes ;... | |
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... an agency which all men must now admit to have been, for good or for evil, the most powerful moral lever that has ever been applied to the affairs of man, are facts well worthy of meditation in every period of religious transition. 
