 Christian civilisation will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious people, by making it manifest that a faith which reaches to heaven furnishes better guarantees for public and private morality than one which does not rise above the earth.  Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin - Page 240by James Bruce Earl of Elgin - 1872 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Wingrove Cooke - China - 1858 - 508 pages
...without claims to our sympathy and respect. In the rivalry which will then ensue, Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...the most universally and laboriously manufacturing pf any on the earth. It can achieve ; victories in the contest in which it will have to engage only... | |
 | 1859 - 420 pages
...an ancient civilisation in many respects effete and imperfect, but in others not without claims to our sympathy and respect. In the rivalry which will...does not rise above the earth. "At the same time the machine-facturing West will be in presence of a population the most universally and laboriously manufacturing... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - China - 1859 - 420 pages
...an ancient civilisation in many respects effete and imperfect, but in others not without claims to our sympathy and respect. In the rivalry which will...does not rise above the earth. "At the same time the machine-facturing West will be in presence of a population the most universally and laboriously manufacturing... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, James Bruce Earl of Elgin - China - 1859 - 518 pages
...without claims on our sympathy and respect. In the rivalry which will then ensue, Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...does not rise above the earth. At the same time the machiua-facturing West will be in presence of a population the most universally and laboriously manufacturing... | |
 | Eugene Stock - Missions - 1899 - 704 pages
...reply to a memorial from the merchants he used these memorable words : — " Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious people, by making it manifest that a faith which roaches to heaven furnishes better guarantees for public and private morality tluin one which does... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - Social control - 1901 - 484 pages
...rivalry which will then ensue [on confronting Chinese with Western civilization] Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...morality than one which does not rise above the earth." Let us, therefore, scan the merits and demerits of an apparatus of other-world sanctions viewed strictly... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - Social control - 1901 - 496 pages
...rivalry which will then ensue [on confronting Chinese with Western civilization] Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...morality than one which does not rise above the earth." 136 Let us, therefore, scan the merits and demerits of an apparatus of other-world sanctions viewed... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1901 - 542 pages
...Smith, twenty-two years a missionary of the American Board in China. Co. New York : Fleming H. Revell. its way among a sceptical and ingenious people, by...morality than one which does not rise above the earth.' These words of Lord Elgin will awaken in many English readers a painful sense of misgiving and of responsibility.... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - Social sciences - 1901 - 504 pages
...rivalry which will then ensue [on confronting Chinese with Western civilization] Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...for public and private morality than one which does uot rise above the earth." 136 Let us, therefore, scan the merits and demerits of an apparatus of other-world... | |
 | Francis Lushington Norris - China - 1908 - 254 pages
...reply to a memorial presented by the Shanghai merchants in 1858, he said : "Christian civilization will have to win its way among a sceptical and ingenious...private morality than one which does not rise above earth." 1 For it is just this earthliness of Confucianism which robs it of power. It inculcates the... | |
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