 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 476 pages
...divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself. Complete. From K Essays Civil and Moral.* OF ATHEISM I HAD rather believe all the fables in...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...correspondence with the other great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI OF ATHEISM I HAD rather believe all the fables in...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...a kind of conformity with Christ himself. Complete. From "Essays Civil and Moral." OF ATHEISM IHAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself. Complete. From " Essays Civil and Moral." OF ATHEISM I HAD rather believe all the fables in...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Alexander Henry Craufurd - Unitarian churches - 1903 - 264 pages
...demands on faith or credulity. Modern science has done nothing to invalidate the verdict of Bacon : "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend...than that this universal frame is without a mind." In a similar way we may say that the difficulties in the way of rationally denying the existence of... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...forth a glorious voice; For ever singing, as they shine, " The hand that made us is divine." ADDISON. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it.—Bacon. 93. LONDON IN THE TIME OF CHAUCER. Chaucer's birthplace was the city of London. This is... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - God - 1905 - 174 pages
...not fail to point out that "piety" towards this "enormous machine " would be misplaced. Bacon says, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Similarly, I had rather believe all the fanatical and superstitious interpretations of the divine providence... | |
 | Francis Aveling - Christianity - 1906 - 216 pages
...compelled to accept the idea of a Creative Power."1 " For that truly is, which exists unchangeably." 2 " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." 3 IN this chapter we shall consider very briefly some lines of reasoning which, while they are not... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 pages
...whole, and assigning to each its relative value and position. "I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and...without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1884 - 892 pages
...term "highest" plainly assuming an Ideal. They all, in short, would apparently " find it easier to believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud...than that this universal frame is without a mind." One great Evolutionist is inclined to endow the primordial atoms with intelligence, and to insinuate... | |
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I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran', than that this universal frame is without a mind. 
