 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.  Works - Page 273by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Epictetus - Philosophy - 1916 - 318 pages
...code, eg love of enemies, sacrifice of revenge, &c. See Bonhoffer, ii, pp. 202 ff. 3. Cf. Bacon, Oj Atheism, ' I had rather believe all the Fables in...than that this universal frame is without a mind." CHAPTER XV 1. The suggestion is that it is just as foolish to stick to a wrong decision in conduct... | |
 | Epictetus - Philosophy - 1916 - 288 pages
...love of enemies, sacrifice of revenge, &c. See Bonhoffer, ii, pp. 202 ff. 3. Cf. Bacon, OJ Alheism, ' I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' CHAPTER XV 1. The suggestion is that it is just as foolish to stick to a wrong decision in conduct... | |
 | Percy Gardner - Christianity - 1918 - 268 pages
...adhere to the miraculous and cataclysmic outlook. Bacon, in a well-known essay on atheism, wrote : " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend...than that this universal frame is without a mind." I should prefer to say " is without a logos, reason, or purpose," since the word mind is somewhat too... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1918 - 488 pages
...Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859. Equal clearness may be attained in more extended statements. Thus : "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." — BACON: "Of Atheism." "He that seeketh to be eminent among, able men hath a great task, but that... | |
 | Vedanta - 1922 - 278 pages
...great and good and morally perfect. "A fool hath said in his heart there is no God," says the Bible. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind," says Bacon. Although Bacon, because he was a Christian, could not believe in all the fables of the... | |
 | Climenson Yelverton Charles Dawbarn - Applied philosophy - 1923 - 360 pages
...road Godwards. He is the consummation of all facts. A new fact, and we know a little more about Him. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend...that this universal frame is without a mind," and then in examination of His works he will have us seek a little further insight into this mind.. And... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...not — but superstition dismounts all these and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men" ; "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend...than that this universal frame is without a mind" ; "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal,... | |
 | Theology - 1898 - 594 pages
...wisdom to devise the scheme and start it in its everlasting movements ? "I had rather," says Bacon,* " believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud...without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it." The spirit with which the doubter... | |
 | Burnett Hillman Streeter - Philosophy and religion - 1926 - 396 pages
...till after Newton. I had rather [wrote Bacon, the apostle of the inductive methods of modern science] believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And such is still the commonsense verdict of ordinary humanity. The discoveries of Newton unveiled a mechanism.... | |
 | William Fulton - Natural theology - 1927 - 320 pages
...order of nature, let us recall for him the stout testimony of no less a thinker than Francis Bacon : " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. . . . While the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and... | |
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