 But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 46by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 pages
...Christian faith. But I suspect that he is describing- the history of his own mind when he says, " Its is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion, for in the entrance of... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...Christian faith. But I suspect that he is describing the history of his own mind when he says, " Its is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion, for in the entrance of... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Naturalism - 1851 - 416 pages
...it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God, and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." Spinoza was not an Atheist, but rather what he has been called, — "a god-intoxicated man." There... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion : for in the entrance of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour BOOK 1. towards God ; and nothing else but to offer to the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice...that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy ma}7 incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - Faith - 1852 - 552 pages
...CXIV.-p. 129. Unbelief may frequently be traced to the want of intellectual earnestness and labour.] " It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For, in the entrance of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...distinction among the vastly greater number of the human race, the dead. [Trinity Hall, 1848.] 190. IT is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Analogy (Religion) - 1852 - 478 pages
...God's forgot. So may not I forget Thee, holy Power ! B« ever to me as at this calm hour. RH DANA. IT is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the rrfind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God ; and nothing else but son to imagination for the better moving of the will : but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind bark again to religion ; for in the entrance of... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1854 - 108 pages
...be passed unseen. The educated only can discern them, and recognise their worth. If, as Bacon says, "it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience,...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism," let a wider and newer experience show that even *the rudiments of learning and the first steps of a... | |
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