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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whether, if his life had been prolonged, he would have seen reason to anticipate greater evils or a brighter future. ' Thrown back without a pilot in the midst of storms, will France ever again enter the harbour, which we once deemed, for a moment, to be within her reach ? I will not despair of it. That is in any case the secret of her return to her former greatness, or her surrender to that decadence towards which she is driven by the treacherous currents that now sway her course. Be this as it may, I have endeavoured in these volumes to vindicate the faith and the patriotism of those with whom I have acted; and if they fail to save our country, they will at least save their conscience before God and their honour before men.' These are his concluding words. The present state of Prance is an answer to his question. Abt. III.?A Study of Religion. By James Maetineau, D.D. 2 vols. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press: 1888. Tx the history of a long antagonism the names which characterise the opposing systems tend to lose their definiteness and become merged in vague and misleading connotations. ' There has been an old-standing quarrel, ' said Plato, ' between poetry and philosophy;' but he meant by poetry the art only of playful imitation, while philosophy covered for him all that was intellectual and moral both in the world and in man. The iraaid Tis Biatpopd between science and religion has Buffered similar mutations in the meanings assigned to the words. To the modern agnostic thinker the word ' science' stands for all that is rational and true, while religion becomes the storehouse of dreams. To the theologian, on the other hand, while religion is that which corresponds to the need of his soul for some abiding unity, the word ' science' signifies whatever is phenomenal and t..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217585996 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021758599X |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 474 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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