The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural Laws |
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... results that naturally follow , and to modify our conduct according to the discoveries which we shall make . To enable us to form a just estimate of our duty and interest as the rational occupants of this world , we may inquire briefly ...
... results that naturally follow , and to modify our conduct according to the discoveries which we shall make . To enable us to form a just estimate of our duty and interest as the rational occupants of this world , we may inquire briefly ...
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... results of his rational faculties ; and in proportion to their cultivation is his sway extended . While ignorant , he is a helpless creature , but every step in knowledge is accompanied by an augmentation of his command over his own ...
... results of his rational faculties ; and in proportion to their cultivation is his sway extended . While ignorant , he is a helpless creature , but every step in knowledge is accompanied by an augmentation of his command over his own ...
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... results . The one is that the world , including both the physical and moral departments , is in itself well and wisely constituted , on the principle of a progressive system , and therefore capable of improvement . This hypothesis ...
... results . The one is that the world , including both the physical and moral departments , is in itself well and wisely constituted , on the principle of a progressive system , and therefore capable of improvement . This hypothesis ...
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... results are frequently observed ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Pro- vidence are generally moralised upon - or a future life is called in , as the scene in which these crooked THE ...
... results are frequently observed ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Pro- vidence are generally moralised upon - or a future life is called in , as the scene in which these crooked THE ...
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... result from inquiries into the uses or purposes of what exists ; and such inquiries constitute a legitimate exercise of the human intellect . But , further , we may ask , Why were animals formed of organised matter ? Why were trackless ...
... result from inquiries into the uses or purposes of what exists ; and such inquiries constitute a legitimate exercise of the human intellect . But , further , we may ask , Why were animals formed of organised matter ? Why were trackless ...
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.