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1016( 3) How, then, should we avail ourselves of it so as to gain the fourth kind of knowledge with the least delay concerning things previously unknown?
1016( 5) With what is such an idea concerned?
1016[ 83]( 1) What, then, is memory?
990( 100) Why did they not hide it?
990( 182) But if we grant all this licence, what can it effect after all?
990( 36) Who, I say, does not see that the number of the years of Saul''s age when he began to reign has been omitted?
990( 61) What is to be done with persons who will only see what pleases them?
990( 62) What is such a proceeding if it is not denying Scripture, and inventing another Bible out of our own heads?
990( 78) Is it not equally clear from Nehemiah vii:5, that the writer merely there copies the list given in Ezra?
990( 81) Can this have happened by mistake?
990( 85) Where is such knowledge to be obtained?
990( 92) No book ever was completely free from faults, yet I would ask, who suspects all books to be everywhere faulty?
990Is it possible to imagine a clerical error to have been committed every, time the word occurs?
991( 17) Moreover, I may ask now, is a man to assent to anything against his reason?
991( 18) What is denial if it be not reason''s refusal to assent?
991( 22) Do they think that faith and religion can not be upheld unless- men purposely keep themselves in ignorance, and turn their backs on reason?
991( 30) Firstly, I ask what shall we do if reason prove recalcitrant?
991( 31) Shall we still be bound to affirm whatever Scripture affirms, and to deny whatever Scripture denies?
991( 33) Jeremiah states this in so many words( xxii:15, 16):"Did not thy father eat, and drink, and do judgment and justice?
991( 34) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know Me?
991( 36) Wherefore, we must take the passage literally, and Solomon''s words( I Kings viii:27),"But will God dwell on the earth?
991( 44) What?
991( 45) Are not these two texts directly contradictory?
991( 46) Which of the two, then, would our author want to explain metaphorically?
991And, after all, why are they so anxious?
991VIII.?
991What are they afraid of?
992( 176) Who is there who would willingly violate the religious rights of his kindred?
992( 177) What could a man desire more than to support his own brothers and parents, thus fulfilling the duties of religion?
992( 178) Who would not rejoice in being taught by them the interpretation of the laws, and receiving through them the answers of God?
992( 19:79) Perhaps I shall be asked,"But if the holders of sovereign power choose to be wicked, who will be the rightful champion of piety?
992( 20:57) What purpose then is served by the death of such men, what example in proclaimed?
992( 33) Am I responsible for the answers of the gods?
992( 4) For he made answer to Joshua,"Enviest thou for my sake?
992( 60) Was not the deed perpetrated as an example and warning for himself?
992( 71) What is left for the sovereign power to decide on, if this right be denied him?
992( 80) Should the sovereigns still be its interpreters?
992[ 19:4]( 52) Perhaps someone will ask: By what right, then, did the disciples of Christ, being private citizens, preach a new religion?
992should we obey the Divine law or the human law?
989( 102) Are these cruelties His doings?"
989( 36) With these precautions I constructed a method of Scriptural interpretation, and thus equipped proceeded to inquire- what is prophecy?
989( 37) In what sense did God reveal himself to the prophets, and why were these particular men- chosen by him?
989( 38) Was it on account of the sublimity of their thoughts about the Deity and nature, or was it solely on account of their piety?
989( 71) Are we, forsooth, bound to believe that Joshua the Soldier was a learned astronomer?
989( 84) Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?"
989):"Who is there among you that will shut the doors?
98911,"Where is He that put His Holy Spirit within him?"
989Lastly, what is the good gained by knowing the sacred histories and believing them?
989What is the teaching of Holy Writ concerning this natural light of reason and natural law?
989What part of the Scripture narratives is one bound to believe?
989Whether by the natural light of reason we can conceive of God as a law- giver or potentate ordaining laws for men?
989With what objects were ceremonies formerly instituted?
989cxxxix:7,"Wither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?"
989iii:1):"What advantage then hath the Jew?
989is it not in that Thou goest with us?
989or what profit is there of circumcision?
989the mercy] of the Lord straitened?
989whither shall I go so as to be beyond Thy power and Thy presence?
989who, save Himself, hath caused the mind of the Lord to will anything,?
989xii:26),"And if Satan cast out devils, his house is divided against itself, how then shall his kingdom stand?
989xl:13:"Who hath disposed the Spirit of the Lord?"
989xv:11) he exclaims,"Who is like unto Thee, 0 Lord, among the gods?"
26321A materialist, if he were consistent, should laugh such a traveller to scorn, saying,"What guidance or purpose can there be in a material object?
26321But here is just the puzzle: at what point does will or determination enter into the scheme?
26321But is it to be asserted on the strength of that fact that the term"music"has no significance apart from its material manifestation?
26321But is it to be supposed that the complex aggregate_ generated_ the life and mind, as the planet generated its atmosphere?
26321But suppose it was successful; what then?
26321CHAPTER VI MIND AND MATTER What, then, is the probable essence of truth in Professor Haeckel''s philosophy?
26321Can it be said that they too had existed previously in some dormant condition in the ether of space?
26321Can there not be in the universe a multitude of things which matter as we know it is incompetent to express?
26321Do they arise by guidance or by chance?
26321Does that show that the earth generated the life?
26321Have the ideas of Sir Edward Elgar no reality apart from their record on paper and reproduction by an orchestra?
26321How did they manage to spring into being?
26321Is natural selection akin to the verified and practical processes of artificial selection?
26321No\doubt some chemical process: combination or dissociation, something atomic, occurred; but what made it occur just then and in that way?
26321Suppose we grant all this, what then?
26321That they too were closed loops opened out, and their existence thus displayed, by the electric current?
26321The argument represented by"He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
26321We can put things together, and we can set things in motion,--statics and kinetics,--can we do more?
26321Why, then, should it be inconceivable that human beings should receive information from beings in the universe higher than themselves?
26321he that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"
26321or is it wholly alien to them and influenced by chance alone?
36800But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? 36800 And can any rational inquirer be astonished at that? 36800 And if we are to give to every one that asketh, what are our vagrancy laws but a flagrant violation of Christianity? 36800 And the stone was still against the door, and they said, Who shall roll us away the stone? 36800 And while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, he said unto them,Have ye here any meat?"
36800God is_ not_ the God of the_ dead_, but of the_ living_,"What then is the use of Catholic prayers for the souls of those in Purgatory?
36800Have not the Jesuits carried out this advice?
36800He said--"The baptism of John, whence was it?
36800He saith unto them, But whom say_ ye_ that I am?"
36800How could Jesus see from one spot all the kingdoms of the world?
36800If any one smites us on the right cheek, do we not quickly turn and hit him on the left?
36800If this is so, what becomes of the hope which believers in immortality have that in heaven they will be joined again to those they have lost on earth?
36800In the morning he was bound and led before Pilate the governor, who asked him,"Art thou the king of the Jews?"
36800Instead of showing any penitence, he pertly answered,"How is it that ye sought me?
36800Is this an instance of meekness?
36800Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
36800So after all, who knows that they found the right babe at last?
36800When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?
36800When asked whether it was lawful to render tribute unto Cæsar, he said, looking at a coin,"Whose is this image and superscription?"
36800Who in his senses would think of doing so?
36800Who would stand by and allow others to do it?
36800Ye fools, did not he that made that which is_ without_, make that which it_ within_ also?"
36800and who are my brethren?
36800from heaven, or of men?"
36800or, what shall we drink?
36800or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
36800wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
21995''[ 4] Do you say that in that case the tables and chairs must be supposed to disappear the moment we all leave the room?
21995Are we to think of the series of events in time as having a beginning and possibly an end, or as being without beginning or end?
21995But can I detect any relation between these experiences of mine except that of succession?
21995But do not you yourself perceive or think of them all the while?
21995But even so, when all this is borne in mind, it may be asked, What is the real meaning of saying that a man was also God?
21995But how, it may be said, do we know that those minds did not exist before the birth of the organisms with which upon this planet they are connected?
21995But what is this good life which we are to promote?
21995But what of the first of these events-- the beginning of the whole series?
21995But what of the intellectual life?
21995But, meanwhile, a word may be uttered in answer to the question which may very probably be asked-- Is God a Person?
21995Can it be translated into terms of our modern thought and speech?
21995Could you for one moment admit the possibility that after countless aeons of nothingness a flash of lightning should occur or an animal be born?
21995Do you find a difficulty in the idea of partial and inadequate knowledge?
21995Do you insist that we logically ought to say it might contain the characteristics of both mind and matter?
21995Granted that there is some truth in all Religions, does Christianity contain the most truth?
21995Has it all a modern meaning?
21995Has that no value?
21995How are we to learn anything about the character of God?
21995How then are we to account for such evils in a Universe which we believe to express the thought and will of a perfectly righteous Being?
21995If the consciousness of exercising activity is a delusion, why does not that delusion occur in the one case as much as in the other?
21995If we are to admit an indefinite possibility of growth and change, how do we know that Christianity itself will not one day be outgrown?
21995In a world in which{ 9} there were no eyes and no minds, what would be the meaning of saying that things were red or blue?
21995In what mind, then, does the moral law exist?
21995Is God a Person?
21995Is Materialism possible?
21995Is it in any sense the one absolute, final, universal Religion?''
21995Is it not so with our knowledge of God?
21995Now can a relation exist except for a mind?
21995Now could you under these conditions rationally suppose that anything could have come into existence?
21995Now, if we do apply these judgements of value to the Universe as we know it, can we say that everything in it seems to be very good?
21995Now, the question arises--''Can such an objectivity be asserted by those who take a purely materialistic or naturalistic view of the Universe?''
21995Professor Harnack''s{ 189}_ What is Christianity?_ has become the typical expression of the Ritschlian attitude.
21995Space is made up of relations; and what is the meaning of relations apart from a mind which relates, or_ for_ which the things are related?
21995The idea of a Matter which can exist by itself is an inference: is it a reasonable one?
21995The question remains,''What is the nature of this one Reality?''
21995The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly?
21995We commonly speak of fire as the cause of the melting of the wax, but what do we really know about the matter?
21995What do we mean by solidity, for instance?
21995What in fact are we to make of the theological idea of Creation, often further defined as Creation out of nothing?
21995What kind of existence then have the parts of the Universe which are not known to any mind?
21995What place then is left for the idea of Revelation?
21995What sort of existence, then, can an undiscovered planet possess till it is{ 99} discovered?
21995What then, it may be asked, of the things which no human eye has ever seen or even thought of?
21995Where and how does this moral law exist?
21995Why is there not twice that amount of good?
21995Why, then, should we shrink from admitting that the value of character really is increased when it is regarded as surviving bodily death?
21995_ Are Spirits created or pre- existent?_ The close connexion and correspondence between mind and body makes for the former view.
21995_ Is the whole- time series infinite?_ Time must be regarded as objective, but the''antinomies''involved in the nature of Time can not be resolved,.
21995_ Is the world created?_ There may or may not be a beginning of the particular series of physical events constituting our world.
15780''The vital question,''he says,''is this, how are we to keep the Church of England from being liberalised?''
15780ARNOLD What shall we say of Matthew Arnold himself?
15780And what is that but a judgment of the practical reason, the response of the heart in man to the spiritual universe?
15780Are the practices of worship which they imply consonant with the supposition that the law was in force?
15780Are we to regard these as all equally inspired?
15780Bousset''s little book,_ Was Wissen wir von Jesus?_ 1904, convinces a quiet mind that we know a good deal.
15780But we are then left with the query: What created the Church?
15780But what was the gospel of Jesus?
15780By what possible means can we ever know how he reacted, worked, willed, suffered?
15780Can we know the inner life of Christ well enough to use it thus as test in every, or even in any case?
15780Do not all parts of it assume a settled state of society and an agricultural life?
15780Does not the use of such a test, or of any test in this external way, take us out of the realm of the religion of the spirit?
15780Else how can the Church of England be now a Catholic Church?
15780FICHTE Fichte asked, Why?
15780Fichte said:''Why do we put it all in so perverse a way?
15780For that matter, what prevents a Buddhist from declaring his thoughts and feelings to be Christianity?
15780Had not Newman, however, made passionate warfare on the liberalism of the modern world?
15780How can the language of Scripture be explained, and yet the reality of the revelation not be explained away?
15780How can these two modes of thought stand related the one to the other?
15780How can this be?
15780How can we know that to be a command of God, which does not commend itself in our own heart and conscience?
15780How could truth be infallibly conveyed in defective and fallible expressions?
15780How did even Christ''s great soul react, experience, work, will, and suffer?
15780How did they choose the writings which were to belong to this new collection?
15780How did this great transformation take place?
15780How do souls react in face of the eternal?
15780How have we to think of this co- operation?
15780If it be asked,"Do we live in a free- thinking age?"
15780If so much is reduced to idea, why not all?
15780In the first place, how do we know what Francis was like?
15780In what way did the very earliest Christians apprehend that gospel?
15780Indeed, Ritschl asks, why is not Buddhism as good as such Christianity?
15780Is there any escape from this situation, short of the return to the authority of Church or Scripture in the ancient sense?
15780Kings know anything about the law?
15780Men ask, could the law, or even any greater part of it, have been given to nomads in the wilderness?
15780One is fain to ask: What right has any man to publish a scrap- book of his musings?
15780Or was it that in Jesus Messiah has come?
15780Or was it the faith of the Messiah, the reverence for the Messiah, directed to the person of Jesus?
15780The question is, upon what does the tortoise stand?
15780The work taken as a whole is so bewildering that one finds himself asking,''What is Ritschl''s method?''
15780They can not be uncatholic in spirit, else how should they be identical in meaning with the great Catholic creeds?
15780Transl.,_ What is Christianity?_ T.B.
15780Was Gladstone''s attitude intelligible?
15780Was it an isolated achievement, or was it part of a general movement?
15780Was it not merely a question of degrees?
15780Was it that the Kingdom of God was near, that the Son of Man would come?
15780Was it the longing for the coming of the Kingdom of God, the striving after the righteousness of the Sermon on the Mount?
15780Was it, Repent, or was it, Believe on the Lord Jesus, or was it both, and which had the greater emphasis?
15780Was the name of Jesus used in the formulas of worship before the time of Paul?
15780What are some facts of this inner life?
15780What are the facts of the religious experience?
15780What becomes of Confucianists and Shintoists, who have never heard of the historic Christ?
15780What can possibly be the worth of a whole of which the parts have no worth?
15780What is Christianity?
15780What is the relation of language to thought and of thought to fact?
15780What was the central principle in the shaping of the earliest stages of the new community, both as to its thought and life?
15780What was the demand upon the hearer?
15780What word dominated the preaching?
15780Why did they reject books which we know were read for edification in the early churches?
15780Why is not that also the result of the activity of the ego?
15780Why is not the ego, the thinking subject, all that is, the creator of the world, according to the laws of thought?
15780Why must there be a_ Ding- an- sich_?
15780Why not, if we can only in spirit come near to Christ and God?
15780Why reduce the world of matter to just a point?
15780Yet sooner or later we come to the child''s question: Who made God?
15780Yet, as Ritschl describes this guidance, in the exigency of his contention against mysticism, have we anything different?
15780_ Wie wurden die Bücher des neuen Testaments heilige Schrift?_ Tübingen, 1907.
3743Art thou the man of God that came from Judah? 3743 Canst thou by searching find out God; canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?"
3743--And what then?
374318,"Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer''s house is?
37433. Who is there among you of all his people?
3743After the lot had designated Jonah to be the offender, they questioned him to know who and what he was?
3743After this, who can doubt the bountifulness of the Christian Mythology?
3743And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?"
3743And what is the difference?
3743And what then?
3743And what then?
3743And what then?
3743And, on the other hand, are we to suppose that every world in the boundless creation had an Eve, an apple, a serpent, and a redeemer?
3743Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to, us?
3743Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority?
3743BUT if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
3743BUT some perhaps will say-- Are we to have no word of God-- no revelation?
3743But how was Jesus Christ to make anything known to all nations?
3743But why must the moon stand still?
3743Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide?
3743Can we conceive anything more destructive to morality than this?
3743Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born-- a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing?
3743Do we want to contemplate his mercy?
3743Do we want to contemplate his munificence?
3743Do we want to contemplate his power?
3743Do we want to contemplate his wisdom?
3743Does not the creation, the universe we behold, preach to us the existence of an Almighty power, that governs and regulates the whole?
3743First, Canst thou by searching find out God?
3743For what reason, or on what authority, should we do this?
3743From whence, I ask, could he gain that knowledge, but from the study of the true theology?
3743Having published his predictions, he withdrew, says the story, to the east side of the city.--But for what?
3743How happened it that he did not discover America?
3743How then is it that those people pretend to reject reason?
3743If the writer meant that he( God) buried him, how should he( the writer) know it?
3743If they lied in one genealogy, why are we to believe them in the other?
3743In fine, do we want to know what God is?
3743Is it not reasonable to suppose that by the cherubims he meant the temple at Jerusalem, where they had figures of cherubims?
3743Is it we that light up the sun; that pour down the rain; and fill the earth with abundance?
3743Now, in the name of common sense, can it be Joshua that relates what people had done after he was dead?
3743Of this class are, EZEKIEL and DANIEL; and the first question upon these books, as upon all the others, is, Are they genuine?
3743Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator?
3743Or of what use is it that this immensity of worlds is visible to man?
3743Secondly, Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
3743Since then no part of our earth is left unoccupied, why is it to be supposed that the immensity of space is a naked void, lying in eternal waste?
3743Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak?
3743The first question, however, upon the books of the New Testament, as upon those of the Old, is, Are they genuine?
3743The question upon this passage is, At what time did the Jebusites and the children of Judah dwell together at Jerusalem?
3743This brings on a supposed expostulation between the Almighty and the prophet; in which the former says,"Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?
3743Those books, therefore, have neither been written by the men called apostles, nor by imposters in concert.--How then have they been written?
3743To what cause then are we to assign this skulking?
3743What certainty then can there be in the Bible for any thing?
3743What have ye still to offer against the pure and moral religion of deism, in support of your system of falsehood, idolatry, and pretended revelation?
3743What is it that we have learned from this pretended thing called revealed religion?
3743What is it we want to know?
3743What more does man want to know, than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent?
3743What occasion could there be for moonlight in the daytime, and that too whilst the sun shined?
3743What shadow of pretence have ye now to produce for continuing the blasphemous fraud?
3743What then can we say of these prophets, but that they are impostors and liars?
3743Who can say by what exceeding fine action of fine matter it is that a thought is produced in what we call the mind?
3743Who is there among you of all his people?
3743Why then are we to believe the same thing of another girl whom we never saw, told by nobody knows who, nor when, nor where?
3743Why then is it to be supposed they have changed with respect to man?
3743Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else?
3743Would they believe me a whit the more if the thing had been a fact?
3743[ NOTE by Paine: If it should be asked, how can man know these things?
3743and in the same manner, what beyond the next boundary?
3743are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done?
3743or why should we( the readers) believe him?
3743that is, were they written by Ezekiel and Daniel?
3743were they written by the persons to whom they are ascribed?
60488And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? 60488 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
60488He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? 60488 Is he the God of the Jews only?
60488Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? 60488 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
60488What is the object of this unparalleled, this mysterious incarnation? 60488 When Jesus came into the coasts of CÃ ¦ sarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
60488Wherewith shall I come before the Lord( said the prophet Micah),"and bow myself before the high God?
60488Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 60488 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? 60488 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 60488 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? 60488 And why did God make himself man? 60488 Are we then to pronounce all divine incarnation false, every tradition of it spurious? 60488 Are we to infer that these faults have the same origin as the doctrines with which they are intermixed, and that they are both divinely inspired? 60488 Are we, therefore, to affirm that those laws are necessary, and that no deviation from them is possible in nature? 60488 But He answered and said unto them,Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
60488But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
60488But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?
60488But he is pre- eminently the seer:"Is not the seer here?"
60488But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"
60488But what images so strike, so penetrate the soul?
60488But why an attack of this character, so indirect and little complete?
60488By a voice from without or by an internal inspiration?
60488By what marks can we distinguish the Divine origin of this special revelation that became the Christian religion?
60488By what ways did Jesus Christ penetrate the human soul to accomplish this great work?
60488Did they act up to their teachings, and accomplish what they attempted?
60488Did they cause humanity to make any great progress, and open to it horizons which it had not before known?
60488Did they really change the moral and social condition of nations?
60488Do these two monuments form but one single edifice?
60488For what is it that unites in a church if it is not faith?
60488Had He not to do so when invested with the attributes of humanity, among contemporaries, and even in his own family?
60488Has God need of man''s concurrence?
60488Has it a rightful claim to all this power?
60488Have they, or not, a meaning and an object?
60488Have we not daily the example and the spectacle before our eyes?
60488Have you then completely forgotten, or have you never thoroughly comprehended, humanity and the history of humanity?
60488He acts, it is said, only by general and permanent laws: how can we implore His interference in favour of our special and exceptional desires?
60488He has himself his moments of sadness, of disquietude:"And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people?
60488He is immutable, ever perfect, and ever the same: how is it conceivable that He lends Himself to the fickleness of human sentiments and wishes?
60488He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
60488How did He win the human soul to the Christian faith, in order to snatch it from evil and to save it?
60488How did he, in each instance, reach such a haven of repose?
60488How did those who were its witnesses and instruments think and speak of it at the moment when it was manifested?
60488How does life become sad?
60488How had God spoken to Abraham?
60488How has he come there?
60488How is his liberty compatible with the laws which govern him and the world?
60488How is it that we find it so charming to give it this name, and regard it under this aspect?
60488How is the great event thus characterised by M. Ewald proved?
60488How lead them back to Christianity?
60488How sound closely the mysteries of such a person and such a purpose?
60488How was the Divine Incarnation accomplished in man?
60488If good, how then has evil found admission?
60488Impossible that men should not feel themselves bound to act towards each other as God has done to them; and towards what man is not charity a duty?
60488In holding this language, what in effect is Dr. Chalmers doing?
60488Is good or is evil the condition and the law of man and of the world?
60488Is he a passive instrument of fate, or a responsible agent?
60488Is it by virtue of experience that the child trusts to the words of its mother, that it has faith in all she tells it?
60488Is it destined to fall with the monarchy of Solomon, or to languish and die out in the midst of the struggles and disasters of Judah and of Israel?
60488Is it, then, in His own name that Jesus Christ teaches and commands?
60488Is its influence legitimate, as well as efficacious?
60488Is this the normal and definitive state of man and of the world?
60488Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
60488Laws there are which govern them;--is there a legislator?
60488Miracles formerly constituted the great force of the sermon, at the present day what are they but a secret source of embarrassment?
60488Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou?
60488That second history, is it comprised and written beforehand in the first?
60488They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
60488What are its source and its nature?
60488What are the elements and the essential facts which constitute it, and upon which it is founded?
60488What are the ties and relations which connect him with the Legislator of the world?
60488What are their beginning and their end?
60488What are they in comparison and in contact with Christian nations?
60488What connection and harmony between the purest, the most generous, instincts of the human soul, and the dogma of God''s Redemption?
60488What did Moses do to obtain a renown so great and so enduring?
60488What does it affirm itself in support of its claim to the moral conquest of mankind?
60488What great progress, what salutary changes, have been effected?
60488What is man himself, but an incomplete and imperfect incarnation of God?
60488What is the full import of this title?
60488What is the full meaning of these words?
60488What is the meaning of this?
60488What is the origin of each, and whither does each tend?
60488What is to become, in this absolute ruin of the nationality of the Jews, of their God, and their faith?
60488What mean these inward disquietudes,--these alternate impulses of pride and weakness?
60488What need to add more?
60488What need to mention that in speaking of the finite world, I do not mean to speak of the material world alone?
60488What passed in that divine soul during that human existence?
60488What shall I say unto them?
60488What sincerity and what firmness ever showed themselves more strikingly than those that grew out of the faith of St. Paul?
60488What teach, what command, in that speech full of authority?
60488What the signification of the inspiration of the sacred volumes?
60488What then ensues?
60488What then is this but to pretend to comprehend God?
60488What was the positive extent of this primal revelation, the necessary attendant upon creation, which occurred in the first relation of God with man?
60488What wonder if Christ has in these days to encounter such adversaries?
60488When it has no other God than the universe, no other man than the chief of the mammalia, what is it but a mere system of Zoology?
60488Whence come this commingling and this strife?
60488Whence comes this Utopia of innocence and bliss in the cradle of the human race?
60488Whence does the world proceed, and whence does man appear in the midst of it?
60488Whence in him this harmony between the philosopher and the Christian?
60488Where are these nations at the present day, more than two thousand years after the appearance of these glorious characters in their history?
60488Wherefore suffering and death?
60488Who does not see how this sublime fact exalts man''s dignity at the same time that it illustrates the worth of man''s nature?
60488Who is there that does not discern an essential, an absolute difference between what is general and what is necessary?
60488Who shall define the possible contingencies, or fathom the mysteries of this relation?
60488Who shall sound the depth of the fall, and of the change which it brought into the moral condition of its author?
60488Who shall weigh the consequences of this change to the state and the moral dispositions of man''s descendants?
60488Why did these four essential systems-- sensualism, idealism, scepticism, and mysticism, appear from the most ancient times?
60488Why has he left Chaldà ¦ a?
60488Why prayer?
60488Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
60488and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
60488and by what right do they oppose his nature to his providence, if his nature is, to us, an impenetrable mystery?
60488how does it lose its illusions?
60488is he not also of the Gentiles?
60488or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
60488shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
60488shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
60488why is it that the intimate experience of my own heart can not express itself in a forcible protest against any such opinion?
60488wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?
60488{ 147} Is it possible to determine in words of greater precision the religious and moral object of the inspiration?
60488{ 178} Can He not, if He will, accomplish all his designs by himself, and through the fulness of his omnipotence?"
60488{ 206} But what, in this decline, will become of the law revealed on Sinai to Moses?
60488{ 212} And shall, then, the Hebrews oppose no efficacious resistance to these reverses?
60488{ 245} What Reformer, other than Jesus Christ, ever held to his followers such language?
60488{ 248} What does He say to them?
60488{ 258} Need I say more?
60488{ 278} Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar, or not?
60488{ 287} Another day,"came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
60488{ 36} In what does this dogma consist?
60488{ 3} Under the empire of these laws, man feels and calls himself free: is he so in reality?
60488{ 47} To what does this idea of a primal time, without strife, without sin, and without pain, correspond?
60488{ 49} Is this a pleasure foreign to all personal sentiment, to all secret reference to ourselves, the pleasure, that is to say, of a simple spectator?
60488{ 5} I borrow the following admirable observations from M. de Châteaubriand:--"Why does not the ox as I do?
60488{ 62} Whence comes this power?
60488{ 80} And are we then to regard this merely as a pious, a generous illusion, a devotedness as vain as admirable?
60488{ 87} Do you ignore absolutely what the people really is, and what all those nations are that cover the surface of the earth?
60488{ 95}''Whither, whither, O Lord, marches the earth in the heavens?''"
60488{ 97} Have you well weighed all this?
60488{ xiii} Does it comprehend properly, does it suitably carry on the warfare in which it is engaged?
621( 118) Our great American revivalist Finney writes:I said to myself:''What is this?
621( 202) Well, what were its good fruits for Margaret Mary''s life? 621 Heavens, how can I speak of it?
621How are we to conceive,Principal Caird writes,"of the reality in which all intelligence rests?"
621How does it work when we thus anticipate God by going our own way? 621 I then closed my eyes for a few minutes, and seemed to be refreshed with sleep; and when I awoke, the first inquiry was, Where is my God?
621Is there, then,our author continues,"no solution of the contradiction between the ideal and the actual?
621It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?--deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
621She burst out weeping, and said,''O Richard, what made you fight?'' 621 The spiritual life,"he writes,"justifies itself to those who live it; but what can we say to those who do not understand?
621What for?
621What is the answer which Jesus sends to John the Baptist?
621What shall I think of it?
621Wherefore?
621''And where shall I do that, Lord?''
621''But,''said I,''is that possible?''
621''Some one ought to do it, but why should I?''
621''Some one ought to do it, so why not I?''
621''What is it that is finished?''
621''Why,''I asked of myself,''does the author use these terms?
621( 328) Ought it to be assumed that in all men the mixture of religion with other elements should be identical?
621( 333) How indeed could it be otherwise?
621); H. L. HASTINGS: The Guiding Hand, or Providential Direction, illustrated by Authentic Instances, Boston, 1898(?).
621--"How did I come to be?
621------------------------------------- What shall we now say of the attributes called moral?
621------------------------------------- What, now, must we ourselves think of this question?
621--or shall we do so with enthusiastic assent?
621..."Why does man go out to look for a God?...
621; Brainerd''s, 212; Alline''s, 217; Oxford graduate''s, 221; Ratisbonne''s, 223; instantaneous, 227; is it a natural phenomenon?
621?_ A.
621After this distinct revelation had stood for some little time before my mind, the question seemed to be put,''Will you accept it now, to- day?''
621After this, with difficulty I got to sleep; and when I awoke in the morning my first thoughts were: What has become of my happiness?
621Again, are men the factors of some dream, the dream- like unsubstantiality of which they comprehend at such eventful moments?
621And how should I have cried, since I was swooning with happiness within?
621And if it be so, how can any possible judge or critic help being biased in favor of the religion by which his own needs are best met?
621And in what form should we conceive of that"union"with it of which religious geniuses are so convinced?
621And it being said to her in the going out,_ Where is thy faith?
621And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here?
621And second, ought we to consider the testimony true?
621And what could it matter, if all propositions were practically indifferent, which of them we should agree to call true or which false?
621And what had they exactly in their several individual minds, when they delivered their utterances?
621And what then?
621And why may not religion be a conception equally complex?
621Are the men of this world right, or are the saints in possession of the deeper range of truth?
621Are there not hereabouts some points of application for a renovated and revised ascetic discipline?
621Are you any more prepared for heaven, or fitter to appear before the impartial bar of God, than when you first began to seek?
621Are you any nearer to conversion now than when you first began?
621At once I replied,''Will you take the desire away?''
621But I can not keep myself from being either crazy or an idiot; and, as things are, from whom should I ask pity?
621But do you wish, Lord, that I should inclose in poor and barren words sentiments which the heart alone can understand?"
621But how came I, then, to this perception of it?
621But in all seriousness, can such bald animal talk as that be treated as a rational answer?
621But make a mother of her, and what have you?
621But now, I ask you, how can such an existential account of facts of mental history decide in one way or another upon their spiritual significance?
621But the idea of him, I said, how did I ever come by the idea?
621But verily, how stands it with her arguments?
621But what matters it in the end whether we call such a state of mind religious or not?
621But why in the name of common sense need we assume that only one such system of ideas can be true?
621Can modern idealism give faith a better warrant, or must she still rely on her poor self for witness?
621Can philosophy stamp a warrant of veracity upon the religious man''s sense of the divine?
621Can things whose end is always dust and disappointment be the real goods which our souls require?
621Can you believe it?
621Did I stop to ask a single question?
621Did he not love me?
621Do mystical states establish the truth of those theological affections in which the saintly life has its root?
621Do they deduce a new spiritual judgment from their new doctrine of existential conditions?
621Do they frankly forbid us to admire the productions of genius from now onwards?
621Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?
621Do you not blush with shame at wishing that a knife should be your master?
621Does God really exist?
621Does it act, as well as exist?
621Does it furnish any_ warrant for the truth_ of the twice- bornness and supernaturality and pantheism which it favors?
621Does this temperamental origin diminish the significance of the sudden conversion when it has occurred?
621Everything in me awoke and received a meaning.... Why do I look farther?
621Finney, what ails you?''
621First of all, then, I ask, What does the expression"mystical states of consciousness"mean?
621First, is there, under all the discrepancies of the creeds, a common nucleus to which they bear their testimony unanimously?
621First, what is the nature of it?
621For what seriousness can possibly remain in debating philosophic propositions that will never make an appreciable difference to us in action?
621Had I not found my God and my Father?
621Had he not called me?
621Has he made religion universal by coercive reasoning, transformed it from a private faith into a public certainty?
621Has he rescued its affirmations from obscurity and mystery?
621Has science made too wide a claim?
621Have I not said the state is utterly beyond words?"
621He came and, placing his hand upon my shoulder, said:''Do you not want to give your heart to God?''
621He then said,''Are you in pain?''
621How can I learn aught when naught I know?
621How can the devotee show his loyalty better than by sensitiveness in this regard?
621How do we part off mystical states from other states?
621How does he exist?
621How is success to be absolutely measured when there are so many environments and so many ways of looking at the adaptation?
621How should you know their true nature, since one knows only what one can comprehend?
621How, then, should we_ act_ on these facts?
621How_ can_ you measure their worth without considering whether the God really exists who is supposed to inspire them?
621I ask you, what is human life?
621I asked them what place that was?
621I feel the pressure of his hand, I feel something else which fills me with a serene joy; shall I dare to speak it out?
621I halted but a moment, and then, with a breaking heart, I said,''Dear Jesus, can you help me?''
621I now turn to my second question: What is the objective"truth"of their content?
621I say God, but why?
621If I, being a wretch and damned sinner, could be redeemed by any other price, what needed the Son of God to be given?
621If it did not, wherein would its superiority consist?
621If one with Omnipotence, how can weariness enter the consciousness, how illness assail that indomitable spark?
621If so, in what shape does it exist?
621If the inner dispositions are right, we ask, what need of all this torment, this violation of the outer nature?
621If the natural world is so double- faced and unhomelike, what world, what thing is real?
621If we are sick souls, we require a religion of deliverance; but why think so much of deliverance, if we are healthy- minded?
621If we can not explain physical light, how can we explain the light which is the truth itself?
621If we were to ask the question:"What is human life''s chief concern?"
621If, then, the entire work is finished, all the debt paid, what remains for me to do?''
621In other words, is the existence of so many religious types and sects and creeds regrettable?
621In our own attitude, not yet abandoned, of impartial onlookers, what are we to say of this quarrel?
621In the healthiest and most prosperous existence, how many links of illness, danger, and disaster are always interposed?
621In the mean time while thus exercised, a thought arose in my mind, what can it mean?
621In what facts does it result?
621Into what definite description can these words be translated, and for what definite facts do they stand?
621Is an instantaneous conversion a miracle in which God is present as he is present in no change of heart less strikingly abrupt?
621Is it necessary, some of you have asked, as one example after another came before us, to be quite so fantastically good as that?
621Is it not surprising that health exists at all?
621Is it possible that I, in that moment, felt what some of the saints have said they always felt, the undemonstrable but irrefragable certainty of God?
621Is not it a maimed happiness-- care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to- morrow?
621Is not its blessedness a fragile fiction?
621Is not your joy in it a very vulgar glee, not much unlike the snicker of any rogue at his success?
621Is such a"more"merely our own notion, or does it really exist?
621Is the saint''s type or the strong- man''s type the more ideal?
621Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death which awaits me does not undo and destroy?
621May not voluntarily accepted poverty be"the strenuous life,"without the need of crushing weaker peoples?
621Of what I shall do to- morrow?
621Oh, happy child, what should I do?
621Or how does it assist me to plan my behavior, to know that his happiness is anyhow absolutely complete?
621Or is dogmatic or scholastic theology less doubted in point of fact for claiming, as it does, to be in point of right undoubtable?
621Ought all men to have the same religion?
621Ought it, indeed, to be assumed that the lives of all men should show identical religious elements?
621Ought they to approve the same fruits and follow the same leadings?
621Ought we not, whether we dig or plough or eat, to sing this hymn to God?
621Pray, what specific act can I perform in order to adapt myself the better to God''s simplicity?
621Religion, whatever it is, is a man''s total reaction upon life, so why not say that any total reaction upon life is a religion?
621Severed like cobwebs, broken like bubbles in the sun--"Wo sind die Sorge nun und Noth Die mich noch gestern wollt''erschlaffen?
621She asked always earnestly,''When shall I be perfectly thine, O my God?''
621Should we not love it; should we not feel buoyed up by the Eternal Arms?"
621So what good will it do you to think all your lives,''Oh, I have done evil, I have made many mistakes''?
621The mere possibility of producing milk from grass, cheese from milk, and wool from skins; who formed and planned it?
621The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt thou not say, Dear City of Zeus?
621The question, What are the religious propensities?
621The questions"Why?"
621The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true?
621The whole feud revolves essentially upon two pivots: Shall the seen world or the unseen world be our chief sphere of adaptation?
621Then I flung myself on the ground, and at last awoke covered with blood, calling to the two surgeons( who were frightened),''Why did you not kill me?
621Then there crept in upon me so gently, so lovingly, so unmistakably, a way of escape, and what was it after all?
621Then what was to me an audible voice said:''Are you willing to give up everything to the Lord?''
621There was a sincerity about this man that carried conviction with it, and I found myself saying,''I wonder if God can save_ me_?''
621These questions"Why?"
621They drew the cord tight with all their strength and asked me,''Does it hurt you?''
621Thy cowl, thy shaven crown, thy chastity, thy obedience, thy poverty, thy works, thy merits?
621To the believer in moralism and works, with his anxious query,"What shall I do to be saved?"
621To what psychological order do they belong?
621Under just what biographic conditions did the sacred writers bring forth their various contributions to the holy volume?
621Under what form will this fear crush me?
621Was there not a Church into which I might enter?...
621We are It already; how to know It?"
621Well, how is it with these fruits?
621Well, what did I do?
621What are we to think of all this?
621What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered?
621What could I do?
621What have I done to deserve this excess of severity?
621What is he?
621What is it, indeed, that keeps existence exfoliating?
621What is its cash- value in terms of particular experience?
621What is more injurious to others?
621What is the particular truth in question_ known as_?
621What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty?
621What may the practical fruits for life have been, of such movingly happy conversions as those we heard of?
621What more have we to say now than God said from the whirlwind over two thousand five hundred years ago?
621What must I do to please thee?
621What single- handed man was ever on the whole as successful as Luther?
621What then must the person do?
621What will be the outcome of all my life?
621What will be the outcome of what I do to- day?
621What would happen if the final stage of the trance were reached?
621When I came to him he burst into tears and said:''Richard, will you forgive me for striking you?''
621When I waked in the morning, the first thought would be, Oh, my wretched soul, what shall I do, where shall I go?
621When S. had finished his prayer and was turning to sleep, the brother said,''Do you still keep up that thing?''
621When could it be evil when thou wert near?
621When such a conquering optimist as Goethe can express himself in this wise, how must it be with less successful men?
621When we think certain states of mind superior to others, is it ever because of what we know concerning their organic antecedents?
621Whence am I?
621Wherefore did I come?
621Why are twice two four?
621Why can I not write down the inconceivable influences, consolations, and peace which I felt interiorly?
621Why do n''t you manage it somehow?"
621Why does he not say"the atoning work"?''
621Why not simply leave pathological questions out?
621Why regret a philosophy of evil, a mind- curer would ask us, if I can put you in possession of a life of good?
621Why should I do anything?
621Why should I live?
621Why then not call these reactions our religion, no matter what specific character they may have?
621Why would you not let me die?''
621Will you be the slave of a knife or the slave of Jesus Christ?
621Would martyrs have sung in the flames for a mere inference, however inevitable it might be?
621Yet he finds himself forced to write:--"What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only?
621Yet how believe as the common people believe, steeped as they are in grossest superstition?
621You have been seeking, praying, reforming, laboring, reading, hearing, and meditating, and what have you done by it towards your salvation?
621_ Have you had any experiences which appeared providential?_ A.
621_ Je m''en fiche_ is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation"Who cares?"
621_ Things are wrong with them_; and"What shall I do to be clear, right, sound, whole, well?"
621_ What does Religion mean to you?_ A.
621_ What is your notion of sin?_ A.
621_ What is your temperament?_ A.
621_ What things work most strongly on your emotions?_ A. Lively songs and music; Pinafore instead of an Oratorio.
621a common person says to himself about a vexed question; but in a"cranky"mind"What must I do about it?"
621and in what proportion may it need to be restrained by other elements, to give the proper balance?
621and must our means of adaptation in this seen world be aggressiveness or non- resistance?
621and say outright that no neuropath can ever be a revealer of new truth?
621and the question, What is their philosophic significance?
621and"What next?"
621how did it come about?
621in a penny?_ she threw it away, begging pardon of God for her fault, and saying,''No, Lord, my faith is not in a penny, but in thee alone.''
621until this came:''Why do you not accept it_ now_?''
621what is its constitution, origin, and history?
621what shall I do now?''
621what shall I do?''
621what shall all these do?
621what shall the law of Moses avail?
14328Man,she might say,"why dost thou pursue me with thy daily complainings?
14328''And he who lacks something is not in all points self- sufficing?''
14328''And how can that be?''
14328''And that those who are wicked are unhappy is clear in manifold ways?''
14328''And that which either tries or amends advantageth?''
14328''And what is that?''
14328''And why so?''
14328''But a man lacks that of which he is in want?''
14328''But can God do evil, then?''
14328''But dost not thou allow that all which is good is good by participation in goodness?''
14328''But if anything should, will it have the least success against Him whom we rightly agreed to be supreme Lord of happiness?''
14328''But if the bad were to attain the good which is_ their_ object, they could not be bad?''
14328''But it is certain that by the attainment of good men become good?''
14328''But that same highest good can not do evil?''
14328''Canst thou, then, doubt that he whom thou seest to have accomplished what he willed had also the power to accomplish it?''
14328''Did I not say truly that something is missing, whereby, as through a breach in the ramparts, disease hath crept in to disturb thy mind?
14328''Does the beauty of the fields delight you?
14328''Dost thou understand?''
14328''Dost thou, then, see the consequence of all that we have said?''
14328''Hast thou discerned also the causes why this is so?''
14328''How should I not?''
14328''How so?''
14328''How so?''
14328''How, pray?''
14328''In what way, pray?''
14328''In what way?''
14328''Is good, then?''
14328''Is there anyone, then, who thinks that men are able to do all things?''
14328''Is there aught, thinkest thou, amid these mortal and perishable things which can produce a state such as this?''
14328''Is this thy question: Whether I know myself for a being endowed with reason and subject to death?
14328''Nay; what consequence?''
14328''Or perhaps it is a long train of servants that makes thee happy?
14328''So wert thou, then, in the plenitude of thy wealth, supporting this insufficiency?''
14328''That which advantageth thou callest good, dost thou not?''
14328''Then, again, who does not see how empty, how foolish, is the fame of noble birth?
14328''Then, all men, good and bad alike, with one indistinguishable purpose strive to reach good?''
14328''Then, canst thou say what man is?''
14328''Then, do the good attain their object?''
14328''Then, in respect of what he can accomplish a man is to be reckoned strong, in respect of what he can not accomplish weak?''
14328''Then, the injurer would seem more wretched than the injured?''
14328''Then, thou didst want the presence of the one, the absence of the other?''
14328''Then, what seek ye by all this noisy outcry about fortune?
14328''Then, what shall I say of the pleasures of the body?
14328''Thinkest thou I had laid up for myself store of enmities enough?
14328''Thinkest thou, then, this combination of qualities to be obscure and without distinction, or rather famous in all renown?
14328''Thou dost not doubt, I suppose, that it is natural for the feet to discharge this function?''
14328''Thou dost not doubt, then, that those who deserve punishment are wretched?''
14328''Walking is man''s natural motion, is it not?''
14328''Was it not because either something was absent which thou wouldst not have absent, or present which thou wouldst have away?''
14328''We judge happiness to be good, do we not?''
14328''Well,''said I,''what then?''
14328''What is it, then, poor mortal, that hath cast thee into lamentation and mourning?
14328''What is it?''
14328''What is that?''
14328''What is that?''
14328''What is that?''
14328''What is that?''
14328''What need to speak of the forged letters by which an attempt is made to prove that I hoped for the freedom of Rome?
14328''What now shall I say of rank and power, whereby, because ye know not true power and dignity, ye hope to reach the sky?
14328''What of the good fortune which is given as reward of the good-- do the vulgar adjudge it bad?''
14328''What then?''
14328''Whither?''
14328''Who can venture to deny it?''
14328''Why, then, ye children of mortality, seek ye from without that happiness whose seat is only within us?
14328''Why, what other way is there beside these?''
14328''Why, what?''
14328''Why, who would venture to deny it?''
14328''Wouldst thou deny that every wicked man deserves punishment?''
14328''Yet how is it possible that thou knowest not what is the end of existence, when thou dost understand its source and origin?
14328''Yet they are able to do evil?''
14328Again I ask, Is Fortune''s presence dear to thee if she can not be trusted to stay, and though she will bring sorrow when she is gone?
14328Am I alone to be forbidden to do what I will with my own?
14328And do not also the things believed inanimate on like grounds of reason seek each what is proper to itself?
14328And if there is in them no beauty to be desired, why shouldst thou either grieve for their loss or find joy in their continued possession?
14328And what plague is more effectual to do hurt than a foe of one''s own household?''
14328Are friends any protection who have been attached by fortune, not by virtue?
14328Are not the limbs of the wealthy sensitive to the winter''s cold?
14328Are riches, I pray thee, precious either through thy nature or in their own?
14328Are willed actions, then, tied down to any necessity in_ this_ case?''
14328Art fain to lead a life of pleasure?
14328Art thou minded to put on the splendour of official dignity?
14328Art thou, then, minded to cast up a reckoning with Fortune?
14328Art_ thou_ decked with spring''s flowers?
14328Brutus, Cato-- where are they?
14328But answer this also, I pray thee: rememberest thou that thou art a man?''
14328But did I deserve such a fate from the Fathers also?
14328But didst thou see a man endued with wisdom, couldst thou suppose him not worthy of reverence, nor of that wisdom with which he was endued?''
14328But does their repute last for ever, even in the land of their origin?
14328But how can it be that things foreseen should ever fail to come to pass?
14328But how can man''s freedom be reconciled with God''s absolute foreknowledge?
14328But how?
14328But in this series of linked causes is there any freedom left to our will, or does the chain of fate bind also the very motions of our souls?''
14328But what if Sense and Imagination were to gainsay Thought, and declare that universal which Thought deems itself to behold to be nothing?
14328But, close in fleshly wrappings held, The blinded mind of man can never Discern-- so faint her taper shines-- The subtle chain that all combines?
14328But, tell me, dost thou remember the universal end towards which the aim of all nature is directed?''
14328Can it be that Thou disdainest Only man?
14328Can not the rich feel hunger?
14328Can not they thirst?
14328Can the fame of a single Roman penetrate where the glory of the Roman name fails to pass?
14328Can ye ever surpass the elephant in bulk or the bull in strength?
14328Can ye excel the tiger in swiftness?
14328Canst thou force from its due tranquillity the mind that is firmly composed by reason?
14328Consequently, if anything is about to be, and yet its occurrence is not certain and necessary, how can anyone foreknow that it will occur?
14328Did I not often in days of old, before my servant Plato lived, wage stern warfare with the rashness of folly?
14328Did it make them fit accusers that my condemnation was a foregone conclusion?
14328Did not all pronounce thee most happy in the virtues of thy wife, the splendid honours of her father, and the blessing of male issue?
14328Did, then, high power a curb impose On Nero''s phrenzied will?
14328Didst thou not learn in thy childhood how there stand at the threshold of Zeus''two jars,''''the one full of blessings, the other of calamities''?
14328Do my words sink into thy mind?
14328Do they fall into error who deem that which is best to be also best deserving to receive the homage of reverence?
14328Do they know what they ought to follow, but lust drives them aside out of the way?
14328Do ye never consider, ye creatures of earth, what ye are, and over whom ye exercise your fancied lordship?
14328Does the act of vision add any necessity to the things which thou seest before thy eyes?''
14328Dost not see what infamy high position brings upon the bad?
14328Dost thou count him to possess power whom thou seest to wish what he can not bring to pass?
14328Dost thou imagine that which lacketh nothing can want power?''
14328Dost thou know me?
14328Dost thou long for power?
14328Dost thou venture to boast thyself of the beauty of any one of them?
14328Doth not the very aspect of this place move thee?
14328Else how could ye the answer due Untaught to questions give, Were''t not that deep within the soul Truth''s secret sparks do live?
14328Else, whence come lawsuits, except in seeking to recover moneys which have been taken away against their owner''s will by force or fraud?''
14328For many have won a great name through the mistaken beliefs of the multitude-- and what can be imagined more shameful than that?
14328For since nothing can be imagined better than God, how can we doubt Him to be good than whom there is nothing better?
14328For this cause, not without reason, one of thy disciples asked,"If God exists, whence comes evil?
14328For why do they forsake virtue and follow vice?
14328Friends, why did ye once so lightly Vaunt me happy among men?
14328Has fortune no shame-- if not at the accusation of the innocent, at least for the vileness of the accusers?
14328Has it''scaped thee how Paullus paid a meed of pious tears to the misfortunes of King Perseus, his prisoner?
14328Has man, then, any freedom, if the reign of law is thus absolute?
14328Hath God decreed''twixt truth and truth There may such lasting warfare be, That truths, each severally plain, We strive to reconcile in vain?
14328Have we no worth, We poor men, of all creation?
14328Have we not counted independence in the category of happiness, and agreed that God is absolute happiness?''
14328Have ye no good of your own implanted within you, that ye seek your good in things external and separate?
14328Have, then, offices of state such power as to plant virtue in the minds of their possessors, and drive out vice?
14328How e''en when haply found Hail that strange form he never knew?
14328How find?
14328How if thou hast drawn over- liberally from the good jar?
14328How in the world, then, can want be driven away by riches?
14328How often have I encountered and balked Conigastus in his assaults on the fortunes of the weak?
14328How often have I thwarted Trigguilla, steward of the king''s household, even when his villainous schemes were as good as accomplished?
14328In what way, then, are we to suppose that God foreknows these uncertainties as about to come to pass?
14328Indeed, of what avail are written records even, which, with their authors, are overtaken by the dimness of age after a somewhat longer time?
14328Is glory thy aim?
14328Is it from ignorance of what is good?
14328Is it shame or amazement that hath struck thee dumb?
14328Is it that thou, too, even as I, mayst be persecuted with false accusations?''
14328Is it thy endeavour to heap up money?
14328Is not the cruelty of fortune against me plain enough?
14328Is there anything more precious to thee than thyself?
14328Is this the recompense of my obedience?
14328Is this untrue?
14328It is this: If one who had been many times consul chanced to visit barbaric lands, would his office win him the reverence of the barbarians?
14328Knows he already what he seeks?
14328Lastly, since every prize is desired because it is believed to be good, who can account him who possesses good to be without reward?
14328Moreover, what is there that one man can do to another which he himself may not have to undergo in his turn?
14328Nevertheless, to deprecate thy determination to be thought wretched, I ask thee, Hast thou forgotten the extent and bounds of thy felicity?
14328Now, is any one of these movements compelled by any necessity?''
14328Now, tell me, since thou doubtest not that God governs the world, dost thou perceive by what means He rules it?''
14328Oh, why With rash and wilful hand provoke death''s destined day?
14328Old?
14328Or art thou dull"as the ass to the sound of the lyre"?
14328Or do they knowingly and wilfully forsake the good and turn aside to vice?
14328Or does he count the possibility of this loss a trifling matter?
14328Or dost thou indeed set value on a happiness that is certain to depart?
14328Or dost thou think otherwise?''
14328Or is it that man''s inmost soul Once knew each part and knew the whole?
14328Or is it the glitter of gems that allures the eye?
14328Or is renown to be thought of no account?
14328Or is the discord not in truth, Since truth is self consistent ever?
14328Perhaps thou wonderest what is the sum of the charges laid against me?
14328See''st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize?
14328Shall I admit it?
14328Shall I call the wish for the preservation of that illustrious house a crime?
14328Shall I deny the charge, lest I bring shame on thee?
14328Shall man''s insatiate greed bind_ me_ to a constancy foreign to my character?
14328Shall we go over to those whom we have shown to be like brute beasts?
14328Shall we, then, deem them truly blessed Whom such preferment hath made great?
14328Suppose, now, that in the mouse tribe there should rise up one claiming rights and powers for himself above the rest, would ye not laugh consumedly?
14328The other for awhile affected to be patient, and, having endured to be abused, cried out derisively:"_ Now_, do you see that I am a philosopher?"
14328Then I, gathering together what strength I could, began:''Is there still need of telling?
14328Then art thou fain Clear and most plain Truth to discern, In the right way Firmly to stay, Nor from it turn?
14328Then said she:''Have we not agreed that the good are happy, and the evil wretched?''
14328Then said she:''What value wouldst thou put upon the boon shouldst thou come to the knowledge of the absolute good?''
14328Then she:''Dost know nothing else that thou art?''
14328Then what bounds can e''er restrain This wild lust of having, When with each new bounty fed Grows the frantic craving?
14328Then, is power not to be reckoned in the category of good?
14328Then, thinkest thou that man hath any power who can not prevent another''s being able to do to him what he himself can do to others?
14328Think you they are wrong who strive to escape want?
14328Thinkest thou that now, for the first time in an evil age, Wisdom hath been assailed by peril?
14328Thinkest thou there is any stability in human affairs, when man himself vanishes away in the swift course of time?
14328To escape your mortal doom?
14328V.''Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power?
14328Well, what is more weak and feeble than the blindness of ignorance?
14328Wert thou ignorant of my character?
14328What are they but mere gold and heaps of money?
14328What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?
14328What curse shall I call down On hearts so dull?
14328What difference, then, thinkest thou, is there, whether thou leavest her by dying, or she leave thee by fleeing away?''
14328What else do tragedies make such woeful outcry over save the overthrow of kingdoms by the indiscriminate strokes of Fortune?
14328What goods of thine have I taken from thee?
14328What if not even now have I departed wholly from thee?
14328What if this very mutability of mine is a just ground for hoping better things?
14328What law can lovers move?
14328What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order?
14328What price wouldst thou not have given for this service in the fulness of thy prosperity when thou seemedst to thyself fortunate?
14328What the power that doth restrain In his place the restless main, That within fixed bounds he keeps, Nor o''er earth in deluge sweeps?
14328What to leaguèd peace hath bent Every warring element?
14328What would exceed the rigour of this severity?
14328What wrong have I done thee?
14328What, then?
14328Where are now the bones of stanch Fabricius?
14328Wherefore doth the rosy morn Rise on Phoebus''car upborne?
14328Wherefore, if wealth can not get rid of want, and makes new wants of its own, how can ye believe that it bestows independence?''
14328While if they are beautiful in their own nature, what is that to thee?
14328Who can an unknown end pursue?
14328Who is so blest by Fortune as not to wish to change his state, if once he gives rein to a rebellious spirit?
14328Who was there to join these distinct essences?
14328Why all this furious strife?
14328Why are Nature''s changes bound To a fixed and ordered round?
14328Why art thou moved with empty transports?
14328Why art thou silent?
14328Why boast ye, then, so loud of race and high ancestral line?
14328Why do tears stream from thy eyes?
14328Why do they all draw their nourishment from roots as from a mouth dipped into the earth, and distribute the strong bark over the pith?
14328Why does a strange discordance break The ordered scheme''s fair harmony?
14328Why does it so happen?
14328Why dost thou weep?
14328Why should Phoebe rule the night, Led by Hesper''s guiding light?
14328Why toil to seek it, if he knows?
14328Why, can that which is plainly more efficacious than anything else be esteemed a thing feeble and void of strength?
14328Why, if she can not be kept at pleasure, and if her flight overwhelms with calamity, what is this fleeting visitant but a token of coming trouble?
14328Why, if thou scannest the infinite spaces of eternity, what room hast thou left for rejoicing in the durability of thy name?
14328Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever?
14328Why, then, dost bemoan thyself?
14328Why, then, shouldst thou feel affright At the tyrant''s weakling might?
14328Why, what amplitude or magnificence has glory when confined to such narrow and petty limits?
14328Why, what hope of freedom is left to us?
14328Why, who enjoys such settled felicity as not to have some quarrel with the circumstances of his lot?
14328Yes; but have men in real life such soundness of mind that their judgments of righteousness and wickedness must necessarily correspond with facts?
14328Yet is any of these thy concern?
14328Yet what rights can one exercise over another, save only as regards the body, and that which is lower than the body-- I mean fortune?
14328Yet whence comes good, if He exists not?"
14328Yet who does not scorn and contemn one who is the slave of the weakest and vilest of things-- the body?
14328Yet who was it brought the charges by which I have been struck down?
14328Yet, haply if he knoweth not, Why blindly seek he knows not what?
14328Yet, when rank and power have fallen to the worst of men, did ever an Etna, belching forth flame and fiery deluge, work such mischief?
14328[ G] What sort of power, then, is this which can not drive away the gnawings of anxiety, or shun the stings of terror?
14328[ Q] Who for a good he knows not sighs?
14328art thou but now come suddenly and a stranger to the scene of this life?
14328art thou verily striving to stay the swing of the revolving wheel?
14328had I deserved this by my way of life?
14328is it_ thy_ fertility that swelleth in the fruits of autumn?
14328then why burns man''s restless mind Truth''s hidden portals to unclose?
14328why embracest thou an alien excellence as thine own?
14328why,''I cried,''mistress of all excellence, hast thou come down from on high, and entered the solitude of this my exile?
14328wilt thou bind with thy mandates the free spirit?
8909_ If, then, it be enquired of him,_ can not God give to matter the faculty of thought?_ he will answer,_no!
8909ARE NOT TRAITORS DISTINGUISHED BY PUBLIC HONORS?
8909Adopting this supposition, it may be inquired, why Nature does not produce under our own eyes new beings-- new species?
8909An unfaithful wife, does she outrage his heart?
8909Are his organs sound?
8909Are nations reduced to despair?
8909Are these animals so indispensably requisite to Nature, that without them she can not continue her eternal course?
8909Are these bonds cut asunder?
8909Are they completely miserable?
8909Are they not promised eternal salvation for their orthodoxy?
8909Are they not the incessant dupes to their prejudices?
8909Are we acquainted with the mechanism which produces attraction in some substances, repulsion in others?
8909Are we in a condition to explain the communication of motion from one body to another?
8909As soon as they are enriched by the means which you censure, are they not cherished, considered, and respected?
8909At the same time nature refuses him every happiness, she opens to him a door by which he quits life; does he refuse to enter it?
8909But does it depend on man to be sensible or not?
8909But does not a profound sleep help to give him a true idea of this nothing?
8909But has truth the power to injure him?
8909But how can he foresee effects of which he has not yet any knowledge?
8909But how can he, without experience, assure himself of the accuracy, of the justness of this association?
8909But how has he become sensible?
8909But in this case, does not the theologian, according to his own assertion, acknowledge himself to be the true atheist?
8909But is not this organization itself the work of Nature?
8909But it will be asked, and not a little triumphantly, from whence did she derive her motion?
8909But it will be urged, has man always existed?
8909But the question is, what gives birth to this idea in his brain?
8909But what is the end?
8909But what is the general direction, or common tendency, we see in all beings?
8909But, how is he to acquire experience upon ideal objects, which his senses neither enable him to know nor to examine?
8909But, what is it that constitutes climate?
8909By what authority, then, do you object to my amassing treasure?
8909Can I alter the received opinions of the world?
8909Can any moral good spring from such blind assurance?
8909Can be, with his dim optics, with his limited vision, fathom the human heart?
8909Can he prevent his eyes, cast without design upon any object whatever, from giving him an idea of this object, from moving his brain?
8909Can it not be perceived they are inherent in his nature?
8909Can man at last flatter himself with having arrived at a fixed being, or must the human species again change?
8909Can this imagination in one individual ever be the same as in another?
8909Chagrin, remorse, melancholy, and despair, have they disfigured to him the spectacle of the universe?
8909Do I not ardently love my God?
8909Do I not behold, that no one is ashamed of adultery but the husband it has outraged?
8909Do not nations unceasingly suffer from their follies?
8909Do not thy follies, thy shameful habits, thy debaucheries, damage thine health?
8909Do not thy vices every day dig thy grave?
8909Do they not assure me that zeal is pleasing to him; that sanguinary inhuman persecutors have been his friends?
8909Do they not know that they are hateful and contemptible?
8909Do they wish to be undeceived?
8909Do we not ourselves change?
8909Does disgrace hold him out to the finger of scorn; does indigence menace him in an obdurate world?
8909Does he not, in fact, circumscribe the attributes of the Deity, and deny his power, to suit his own purpose?
8909Does it not appear to annihilate the universe to him, and him to the universe?
8909Does it not furnish its disciples with the means of extricating themselves from the punishments with which it has so frequently menaced them?
8909Does not Mahometanism cut off from all chance of future existence, consequently from all hope of reaching heaven, the female part of mankind?
8909Does not all change around us?
8909Does not either his happiness or his misery depend on the part he plays?
8909Does not listlessness punish thee for thy satiated passions?
8909Does not that deprive him of every thing?
8909Dost thou not behold in those eccentric comets with which thine eyes are sometimes astonished, that the planets themselves are subject to death?
8909Dost thou not know the Sesostris''s, the Alexanders, the Caesars are dead?
8909Dost thou not linger out life in disgust, fatigued with thine own excesses?
8909Each idea is an effect, but however difficult it may be to recur to the cause, can we possibly suppose it is not ascribable to a cause?
8909Every time thou hast stained thyself with crime, hast thou dared without horror to return into thyself, to examine thine own conscience?
8909From whence came these elements?
8909From whence comes these opinions, which according to the theologians are so displeasing to God?
8909Has any or the whole of them rendered him better, more enlightened to his duties, more faithful in their performance?
8909Has he placed his happiness exclusively on some object which it is impossible for him to procure?
8909Has not thy vigour, thy gaiety, thy content, already yielded to feebleness, crouched under infirmities, given place to regret?
8909Has the human species existed from all eternity; or is it only an instantaneous production of Nature?
8909Hast thou not dreaded the scrutiny of thy fellow man?
8909Hast thou not found remorse, error, shame, established in thine heart?
8909Have I not seen my fellow- citizens envy them-- the nobles of my country sacrifice every thing to obtain them?
8909Have the Jews exalted no one to the celestial regions, save the virtuous?
8909Have there been always men like ourselves?
8909Have there been, in all times, males and females?
8909Have they led him to the least acquaintance with the great_ Cause of Causes?_ Alas!
8909Have they not remorse?
8909Have they not, then, a consciousness of their own iniquities?
8909He adds from himself,"who knows, if to live, be not to die; and if to die, be not to live?"
8909His ignorance, his prejudices, his imbecility, his vices, his passions, his weakness, are they not the inevitable consequence of vicious institutions?
8909His physical evils, are they violent?
8909How can a being without extent be moveable; how put matter in action?
8909How can a substance devoid of parts, correspond successively with different parts of space?
8909How can he judge whether there objects be favorable or prejudicial to him?
8909How can it cease to think?
8909How could man occupy himself with a perishable world, ready every moment to crumble into atoms?
8909How dream of rendering himself happy on earth, when it is only the porch to an eternal kingdom?
8909How is he to assure himself of the existence, how ascertain the qualities of beings he is not able to feel?
8909How much pain, how much anxiety, has he not endured in this perpetual conflict with himself?
8909How, if he does not reiterate this experience, can he compare it?
8909However this may be, the sensibility of the brain, and all its parts, is a fact: if it be asked, whence comes this property?
8909I agree to it without any difficulty: but in reply, I again ask, Is his nature susceptible of this modification?
8909If his senses are vitiated, how is it possible they can convey to him with precision, the sensations, the facts, with which they store his brain?
8909If however it be asked, what is a spirit?
8909If it be enquired how, or for why, matter exists?
8909If it be inquired, whence proceeds the motion that agitates matter?
8909If it was asserted,"All men naturally desire to be rich; therefore all men will one day be rich,"how many partizans would this doctrine find?
8909If our country is attacked, do we not voluntarily sacrifice our lives in its defence?
8909If the calendar of the Romish saints was examined, would it be found to contain none but righteous, none but good men?
8909If we can only form ideas of material substances, how can we suppose the cause of our ideas can possibly be immaterial?
8909If, again, it be asked, what origin we give to beings of the human species?
8909If, then, it be demanded, whence came man?
8909If, therefore, it be asked, whence came matter?
8909In a passage reported by Arrian, he says,"but where are you going?
8909In attributing to spirits the phenomena of Nature, as well as those of the human body, do we, in fact, do any thing more than reason like savages?
8909In fact, will not every thing conduct to indulgence the fatalist whom experience has convinced of the necessity of things?
8909In the country I inhabit, do I not see all my fellow- citizens covetous of riches?
8909In the puissant Nature that environs thee, shalt thou pretend to be the only being who is able to resist her power?
8909In thy actual being, art not thou submitted to continual alterations?
8909In what moment is he a free agent?
8909Indeed what is his soul, save the principle of sensibility?
8909Indeed, how can we flatter ourselves we shall ever be enabled to compass the true principle of that gravity by which a stone falls?
8909Indeed, what right have we to hate or despise man for his opinions?
8909Is death any thing more than a profound, a permanent steep?
8909Is erring, feeble man, with all his imbecilities, competent to form a judgment of the heavenly deserts of his fellows?
8909Is he master of feeling or not feeling pain?
8909Is he not obliged to play a part against his will?
8909Is he not sufficiently punished by the multitude of evils that afflict him on every side?
8909Is he the master of desiring or not desiring an object that appears desirable to him?
8909Is he the master of preventing the qualities which render an object desirable from residing in it?
8909Is he the master of willing, not to withdraw his hand from the fire when he fears it will be burnt?
8909Is it consistent with sound doctrine, with philosophy, or with reason?
8909Is it in his power to add to these consequences all the weight necessary to counterbalance his desire?
8909Is it not evident that the whole universe has not been, in its anterior eternal duration, rigorously the same that it now is?
8909Is it not this divine being who chooses and rejects?
8909Is it possible that evil can result to man from a correct understanding of the relations he has with other beings?
8909Is man more the master of his opinions?
8909Is not God the absolute master of their destiny?
8909Is not Mahomet himself enthroned in the empyrean by this superstition?
8909Is not Nature herself a vast machine, of which the human species is but a very feeble spring?
8909Is not audacious crime encouraged?
8909Is not compassion laughed to scorn?
8909Is not cunning vice rewarded?
8909Is not honesty contemned?
8909Is not its descent the necessary effect of its own specific gravity?
8909Is not love of the public weal taxed as folly; exactitude in fulfilling duties looked upon as a bubble?
8909Is not man brought into existence without his own knowledge?
8909Is not subtle intrigue eulogized?
8909Is not virtue discouraged?
8909Is their condition happy?
8909Is there any thing in the world that perishes totally?"
8909Is there one wicked individual who enjoys a pure, an unmixed, a real happiness?
8909Is this species without beginning?
8909Is virtue in this situation amongst men?
8909It may be asked of man, is he any thing more than matter combined, of which the former varies every instant?
8909It ought not to excite surprise if such a system is of no efficacy; what can reasonably be the result of such an hypothesis?
8909It will be asked, perhaps, by what road has man been conducted to form to himself these gratuitous ideas of another world?
8909Justice, does she hold her scales with a firm, with an even hand, between all the citizens of the state?
8909Let us see if it is a barren speculation, that his not any influence upon the felicity of the human race?
8909Might it not be a question to the Malebranchists, was it in the Divinity that SPINOZA beheld his system?
8909Mistaken the laws of Nature, did I say?
8909Nevertheless, how many persons say they are, and even believe themselves, restrained by the fears of the life to come?
8909On the other hand, does not superstition itself, does not even religion, annihilate the effects of those fears which it announces as salutary?
8909Or has he the power to take away from fire the property which makes him fear it?
8909Perfidious friends, do they forsake him in adversity?
8909Rebellious, ungrateful children, do they afflict his old age?
8909Religion, which alone pretends to regulate his manners, does it render him sociable-- does it make him pacific-- does it teach him to be humane?
8909Society, or those who represent it, do they use him with harshness, do they treat him with injustice, do they render his existence painful?
8909Suppose the argument retorted on them; would it be believed?
8909That those who do not think as I do are his enemies?
8909The arbiters, the sovereigns of society, are they faithful in recompensing, punctual in rewarding, those who have best served their country?
8909The examples spread before him, are they suitable to innocence and manners?
8909The laws, do they never support the strong against the weak-- favor the rich against the poor-- uphold the happy against the miserable?
8909The motion or impulse to action, of which he is susceptible, is that not physical?
8909The question then arises, how can we conceive such a substance, which is only the negation of every thing of which we have a knowledge?
8909The species itself, is it indestructible, or does it pass away like its individuals?
8909The_ choleric_ man vociferates,--You advise me to put a curb on my passions; to resist the desire of avenging myself: but can I conquer my nature?
8909Thou pretendest to exist for ever; whit thou, then, that for thee alone eternal Nature shall change her undeviating course?
8909Thus the organic structure once destroyed, can it be reasonably doubted the soul will be destroyed also?
8909Thus, when even the soul should be admitted to be immaterial, what conclusion must be drawn?
8909Thus, when it shall be inquired, what is man?
8909Was Constantine, was St. Cyril, was St. Athanasius, was St. Dominic, worthy beatification?
8909Was the animal anterior to the egg, or did the egg precede the animal?
8909Was there a first man, from whom all others are descended?
8909Were Jupiter, Thor, Mercury, Woden, and a thousand others, deserving of celestial diadems?
8909What absurdity then, or what want of just inference would there be, to imagine that the man, the horse, the fish, the bird, will be no more?
8909What are these, but notions which he must necessarily put aside, in order that human association may subsist?
8909What benefit could arise from education itself?
8909What did I say?
8909What did I say?
8909What do I say?
8909What do I say?
8909What does it present to the mind, but a substance which possesses nothing of which our senses enable us to have a knowledge?
8909What does the man in power, except shew to others, that he is in a state to supply the requisites to render them happy?
8909What harmony, what unison, then, can possibly exist between them, when they discourse with each other, upon objects only known to their imagination?
8909What is it that represents the word_ intelligence_, if he does not connect it with a certain mode of being and of acting?
8909What is it, to think, to enjoy, to suffer; is it not to feel?
8909What is life, except it be the assemblage of modifications, the congregation of motion, peculiar to an organized being?
8909What is the aim of man in the sphere he occupies?
8909What is the object that unites all these qualities?
8909What is the visible and known end of all their motion?
8909What is there that is terrible or grievous in that?
8909What it is that authorizes them to believe this sterility in Nature?
8909What moral reliance ought we to have on such people?
8909What motive, indeed, except it be this, remains for him in the greater part of human societies?
8909What the scale by which to measure who has the best regulated imagination?
8909What, then, must be the diversity of these ideas, if the objects meditated upon do not act upon the senses?
8909What, then, shall be, the common standard that shall decide which is the man that thinks with the greatest justice?
8909When Samson wished to be revenged on the Philistines, did he not consent to die with them as the only means?
8909When a theologian, obstinately bent on admitting into man two substances essentially different, is asked why he multiplies beings without necessity?
8909When the father either menaces his son with punishment, or promises him a reward, is he not convinced these things will act upon his will?
8909When to resolve these problems, man is obliged to have recourse to miracles or to make the Divinity interfere, does he not avow his own ignorance?
8909Where are now the priests of Apollo, of Juno, of the Sun, and a thousand others?
8909Wherefore is it not exacted that all men shall have the same features?
8909Will it also be without end?
8909Will the assertion be ventured, that the stone and earth do not act?
8909Will there always be such?
8909Will you have me renounce my happiness?
8909With respect to those who may ask why Nature does not produce new beings?
8909You call my pleasures disgraceful; but in the country in which I live, do I not witness the most dissipated men enjoying the most distinguished rank?
8909and what is its end?
8909but do I not also witness that they are little scrupulous in the means of obtaining wealth?
8909do not I see men making trophies of their debaucheries, boasting of their libertinism, rewarded, with applause?
8909does not every thing tell me, that in this world money is the greatest blessing; that it is amply sufficient to render me happy?
8909dost thou not see all the threads which enchain thee?
8909has he the power either to prevent it from presenting itself, or from renewing itself in his brain?
8909his experience will be true: are they unsound?
8909how prove its truth?
8909in punishing those who have pillaged, who have robbed, who have plundered, who have divided, who have ruined it?
8909that it is impossible, in its posterior eternal duration, it can be rigidly in the same state that it now is for a single instant?
8909we may enquire of them in turn, upon what foundation they suppose this fact?
8909what advantage will he discover in restraining the fury of his passions?
8909what right have you to prevent my using means, which although you call them sordid and criminal, I see approved by the sovereign?
8909wilt thou never conceive, that thou art but an ephemeron?
8910_ We may fairly inquire what is this Being? 8910 A theist, very estimable for his talents, asks,if there can be any other cause than an evil disposition, which can make men atheists?"
8910Above all, when there is a question of its own interests, does it not dispense with engagements, however solemn, made with those whom it condemns?
8910Again, is it an ascertained fact, does experience warrant the conclusion, that superstition has a useful influence over the morals of the people?
8910Again, upon what do they found the existence of these theories, by whose aid they pretend to solve all difficulties?
8910Again; do we not see that either enthusiasm or interest is the only standard of their decisions?
8910Are not the most horrid crimes perpetrated in all parts of the world?
8910Are not the sovereigns of almost every country in a continual state of warfare with their subjects?
8910Are not those dreamers, who are incapable of attaching any one positive idea to the causes of which they unceasingly speak, true deniers?
8910Are not those visionaries, who make a pure nothing the source of all beings, men really groping in the dark?
8910Are not those who have thus given loose to their imagination, who have given birth to this system, themselves men?
8910Are they agreed upon the conduct to be adopted; upon the manner of explaining their texts; upon the interpretation of the various oracles?
8910Are they also to be ascribed to the Divinity, because we do not refuse him qualities possessed by his creatures?
8910Are they ever contented with the proofs offered by their colleagues?
8910Are they in a condition to maturely weigh theories that require the utmost depth of thought?
8910Are they not delirious fanatics, on whom the law, dictated by the most inhuman prejudices, imposes the necessity of acting like ferocious brutes?
8910Are they not savage tyrants, who have the rank injustice to violate thought; who have the folly to believe they can enslave it?
8910Are they, in fact, in a condition to be charged with this knowledge?
8910Are we better acquainted with the cause of polar attraction?
8910Are we in a condition to explain the phenomena of light, electricity, elasticity?
8910Are, therefore, the philosophers atheists, because they do not reply, it is God who is the author of these effects?
8910As soon as they subscribe to a principle fatally opposed to reason, by what right do they dispute its consequences, however absurd they may be found?
8910Besides, wherefore should we leave it to the judgment of men, who are, themselves, only enabled to act after our manner?
8910But are not these gods the thing in question?
8910But does he not frequently offer up his thanksgivings for actions that overwhelm his neighbour with misery?
8910But does this afford us one single, correct idea of the_ Divinity_?
8910But is it possible to derogate from the necessary laws of existence?
8910But is not this wilful idleness?
8910But what is this grace?
8910But what is this man, who is so foully calumniated as an atheist?
8910But where are the people or the clergy who will allow, either that their Divinity is false, or their worship irrational?
8910But where is the necessity for mystery in points of such vast importance?
8910But wherefore, it might be inquired, should I take this system upon your authority?
8910But, seriously, does this prove that they do not deceive?
8910Can any thing be more rational than to probe to the core these astounding theories?
8910Can it make man either better or worse, that he should consider the whole that exists as material?
8910Can it really be that reason is dangerous?
8910Can men have stronger motives for the practise of virtue?
8910Can that which exists necessarily, act but according to the laws peculiar to itself?
8910Can they shew the test that will lead to an acquaintance with them?
8910Can we at all flatter ourselves that to please us, to gratify our discordant wishes, he will alter his immutable laws?
8910Can we conceive that immateriality could ever draw matter from its own source?
8910Can we imagine that at our entreaty he will take from the beings who surround us their essences, their properties, their various modes of action?
8910Can we, or can we not admit their argument to be conclusive, such as ought to be received by beings who think themselves sane?
8910Could I, by the aid of these senses, discover thy spiritual essence, of which no one could furnish me any idea?
8910Could atheists, however irrational they may be supposed, if assembled together in society, conduct themselves in a more criminal manner?
8910Could the great_ Cause of causes_ make the whole, without also making its part?
8910Did princes really become more powerful; were nations rendered more happy; did they grow more flourishing; did men become more rational?
8910Did the morals of the people improve under the pastoral care of these guides, who were so liberally rewarded?
8910Do not all your oracles breathe inconsistency?
8910Do they ever last longer than for the season of their convenience?
8910Do they unanimously subscribe to each other''s ideas?
8910Do we find substantive virtues adorn those who most abjectly submit themselves to all the follies of superstition?
8910Do we know why the magnet attracts iron?
8910Do we understand the mechanism by which that modification of our brain, which we tall volition, puts our arm or our legs into motion?
8910Does he, in fact, do more than collect together that which becomes, in consequence of its association, perfectly unintelligible?
8910Does it procure for its agents the marvellous faculty of having distinct ideas of beings composed of so many contradictory properties?
8910Does not the disproportion, of which they speak with such amazing confidence, attach to themselves as well as to others?
8910Does not their more sober judgment unceasingly condemn the extravagancies to which their undisciplined passions deliver them up?
8910Does not this somewhat remind us of what Rabelais describes as the employment of Queen Whim''s officers, in his fifth book and twenty- second chapter?
8910Does then theology impart to the mind the ineffable boon of enabling it to conceive that which no man is competent to understand?
8910Does, he, however, elucidate his embarrassments, by submitting her action to the agency of a being of which he makes himself the model?
8910Dost thou not behold ambition tormented day and night, with an ardour which nothing can extinguish?
8910Generally speaking, is there the least sincerity in the alliances which these rulers form among themselves?
8910Granted: but is he quite certain these oracles have emanated from themselves?
8910Granted: who has ever doubted it?
8910Has he laid down false principles?
8910Has it not in a great measure confounded the notions of virtue and vice, of justice and injustice?
8910Has it not legitimatized murder; given a system to perfidy; organized rebellion; made a virtue of regicide?
8910Has it not, in many instances, rendered the most essential duties of our nature problematical?
8910Has it not, on the contrary, had a tendency to obscure the wore certain science of morals?
8910Has not its altars been drenched with human gore?
8910Has the human understanding progressed a single step by the assistance of this metaphysical science?
8910Have I been able to render homage to the justice of thy priests, whilst I so frequently beheld crime triumphant, virtue in tears?
8910Have they flattered thee that thou art something supernatural?
8910Have they sufficiently reflected on the tendency of this mode of reasoning?
8910Have they then assured thee that thou art a god?
8910He gives it thought and intelligence, but how conceive these qualities without a subject to which they may adhere?
8910How are we to know that?
8910How can a corporeal being make an incorporeal being experience incommodious sensations?
8910How can he imitate that goodness, that justice, that mercy, which does not resemble either his own, or any thing he can conceive?
8910How can it even be conceived by mortals?
8910How can it give impulse to matter, how set it in motion?
8910How can the gross organs of the one, comprehend the subtile quality of the other?
8910How can these happy effects ever be expected from the polluted fountains of superstition, whose waters do nothing more than degrade mankind?
8910How can we acquire a knowledge of their will?
8910How could he perceive the beautiful order which they had introduced into the world, while he groaned under such a multitude of calamities?
8910How did he discover the end proposed by the Deity?
8910How do we understand this term?
8910How do you become acquainted with these impenetrable mysteries?
8910How doth it act upon man?
8910How follow a conduct suitable to please them-- to render himself acceptable in their sight?
8910How formidable a foe must not outraged reason be to falsehood?
8910How is he to judge now?
8910How make an immaterial being, who has neither organs, space, point, or contact, understand that modification of matter called voice?
8910How shall it be decided who is right, or who is wrong?
8910How shall we attribute anger to beings without either blood or bile?
8910How shall we know what is agreeable to a Divinity who is incomprehensible to all men?
8910How then am I to understand immaterial substance?
8910How then can he be induced to call men just who act after this manner?
8910How then does he measure out his ideas of justice?
8910How then is he to form his judgment of beings who are represented to possess both in the extremest degree?
8910How was he able to discern the beneficence of men whom he beheld sporting as it were with his species?
8910How will the metaphysicians draw themselves out of this perplexing intricacy?
8910However this may be, we must ever inquire, Why this should not be matter?
8910If after this it be asked, What is the end of nature?
8910If he asked, Wherefore his reason had then been given him, since he was not to use it in matters of such high behest?
8910If he does not equally partake of them with the other beings in nature?
8910If it be demanded, How can we figure to ourselves, that matter by its own peculiar energy can produce all the effects we witness?
8910If it be necessary to judge the opinions of mankind according to their conduct, which is the theory that would bear the scrutiny?
8910If the knowledge of these systems be the most necessary thing, wherefore are they not more evident, more consistent, more manifest?
8910If their gods are infinitely good, wherefore should we dread them?
8910If their grace works every thing in man, what reason can there be why he should be rewarded?
8910If then it be demanded, Wherefore she exists?
8910If there is, which are the spurious, which are the genuine?
8910If therefore we were to form our judgments after our own puny ideas of wisdom, what should we say?
8910If these beings are spirits that are immaterial, how can they be able to act like man, who is a corporeal being?
8910If these ways are impenetrable, by what means did he acquire his knowledge of them?
8910If they are immutable, by what right shall we pretend to make them change their decrees?
8910If they are inconceivable, wherefore should we occupy ourselves with them?
8910If they are infinitely wise, what reason have we to disturb ourselves with our condition?
8910If they are just, upon what foundation believe that they will punish those creatures whom they have filled with imbecility?
8910If they are lords of all, why make sacrifices to them; why bring them offerings of what already belongs to them?
8910If they are omnipotent, how can they be offended; how can we resist them?
8910If they are omnipresent, of what use can it be to erect temples to them?
8910If they are omniscient, wherefore inform them of our wants, why fatigue them with our requests?
8910If they are rational, how can the enrage themselves against blind mortals, to whom they have left the liberty of acting irrationally?
8910If they are so different in their detail, may there not be reasonable ground for suspecting some of them are not authentic?
8910If this argument was to be admitted, are they aware how far it, would carry them?
8910If this be admitted as a postulatum, are they prepared to follow it in all its extent?
8910If this substance be spiritual, that is, devoid of extent, how can there exist in it any parts?
8910If we grant his position, what is the result?
8910In fact, does not superstition sometimes inculcate perfidy; prescribe violation of plighted faith?
8910In reply it will be said, somewhat triumphantly, each man hath his ideas of the sun, do all these suns exist?
8910In short, has it not been the signal for the most dismal follies, the most wicked outrages, the most horrible massacres?
8910In the_ second_ place, which set of these oracular developements are we to adopt?
8910Indeed what has resulted from the confused alliance, from the marvellous speculations, which theology has made with the most substantive realities?
8910Indeed, do we not every day behold mortals in contradiction with themselves?
8910Indeed, what is virtue, in the eyes of the generality of theologians?
8910Ingenuously, is it possible for man to form any true notion of such a quality?
8910Is he matter and motion, or is he only space or the vacuum?
8910Is he willing, adopting their own hypothesis, that evil should be committed, or can he not prevent it?
8910Is his system fallacious?
8910Is it in the doctrines which these codes hold forth, that he is to seek for a model?
8910Is it independent of its own peculiar essence, or of those properties which constitute it such as it is?
8910Is it not a derogation from the severe rules of an exact, a rigorous justice, which causes a remission of some part of a merited punishment?
8910Is it not inconsistent with our nature?
8910Is it not just, he exclaims, to thank the Divinity for his kindness?
8910Is it not to ask him to alter the eternal decrees of his justice; to change the invariable laws which he hath himself determined?
8910Is it not, according to these definitions, that which can not couple together?
8910Is it not, in fact, announcing these beings to be men like ourselves, who act with our imperfections on an enlarged scale?
8910Is it not, in other words, to accuse him with neglecting his creatures?
8910Is it ridiculous?
8910Is it, then, delirium to prefer the known to the unknown?
8910Is not bread the result of the combination of flour, yeast and water?
8910Is not the virtuous man, from thence in a condition to ardently desire the existence of a system that remunerates the goodness of men?
8910Is not this formally asserting that nature herself is God?
8910Is not this, in fact, the duty we owe to the great, the universal Parent?
8910Is not vice frequently triumphant, and virtue compelled to seek her own reward in retirement?
8910Is there any one who has sufficient compass of comprehension to ascertain the advantages that result from the evils that besiege us on all sides?
8910Is there any thing imaginable wore wild and extravagant amongst those in bedlam than this would be?"
8910Is there then no remorse but for those who believe in incomprehensible systems?
8910Is this question answered by heaping together the estimable qualities of man?
8910Is what is termed Atheism, compatible with Morality?
8910Let us seriously ask him, if he does not witness good constantly blended with evil?
8910Must, then, the work be more perfect than the workman?
8910Of the motives which lead to what is falsely called Atheism.--Can this System be dangerous?--Can it be embraced by the Illiterate?
8910On the other hand, what could we expect from such a being, as they have supposed him to be?
8910On this again, there arises two almost insuperable difficulties, in the_ first_ place, who shall assure us of their actual mission?
8910Or is it a truth that you yourself are not a man, but one of those impenetrable beings whom you say you represent?
8910Ought we not rather to redouble our efforts to penetrate the cause of those phenomena which strike our mind?
8910Shall God, who made the eye, not himself see?
8910Shall it be interior or exterior to his production?
8910Suppose their argument granted, what is to be done with all those other qualities upon which man does not set so high a value?
8910The most rational people argue thus:"What shall I do?
8910The necessary Being of which question is here made, doth he find no obstacles to the execution of the projects which are attributed to him?
8910The next question would naturally be, When, where, or to whom have these oracles spoken?
8910There is nothing but superstitious follies that are pernicious to mortals; and wherefore?
8910This granted, I shall inquire if matter exists; if it does not at least occupy a portion of space?
8910This granted, are they nearer the point at which they labour?
8910Thus each man has his God: But do all these gods exist?
8910To what purpose do ye scatter thorns on the road of life?
8910To what purpose then is it they speak of these things to others?
8910Under such instructors what could become of youth?
8910Upon this principle, how many atheists ought there to be?
8910Upon what foundation do you attribute virtues which you can not penetrate?
8910Very good: Is it then actually in the system of fanatics, that man should draw up his ideas of virtue?
8910Was not Pandora''s box, though stuffed with evils, trifling when compared with this?
8910We agree to it without hesitation; but, ingenuously, are the letters which compose a poem thrown with the hand in the manner of dice?
8910We are ignorant of the mode in which even plants vegetate, how then be acquainted with that which has no affinity with ourselves?
8910What advantage, then, has resulted to the human race from those opinions, so universal, at the same time so barren?
8910What advantages can ye derive from systems with which the united efforts of the whole human species have not been competent to bring ye acquainted?
8910What are the relations that can be supposed to exist between such very dissimilar beings?
8910What avails it, that ye multiply those sorrows to which your destiny exposes ye?
8910What barrier could superstition, with its imaginary motives, oppose to the general corruption?
8910What conclusion, then, ought fairly, rationally, consistently, to be drawn from the whole?
8910What could we consistently ask of him?
8910What do I say?
8910What do I say?
8910What end, then, do oaths answer?
8910What exposition of morality does the theories, upon which ye found all the virtue, present to man?
8910What idea do we attach to mercy?
8910What idea do you form to yourself of a justice that never resembles that of man?
8910What idea, however, can be formed of a being who is resembled by nothing of which we have any knowledge?
8910What ideas must mortals, thus overwhelmed with terror, form to themselves of the irresistible cause that could produce such extended effects?
8910What interest can so many persons have to deceive?"
8910What is our sun compared to those myriads of suns which at immense distances occupy the regions of space?
8910What is the conduct of our adversaries?
8910What is the human race compared to the earth?
8910What is this earth compared to the sun?
8910What is this, then, but that which no man can explain or comprehend?
8910What is to be understood by either this virtue or this energy?
8910What morality is this, but that of men who offer themselves as living images, as animated representatives of the Divinity?
8910What motives can I have to submit my reason to thy delirium?
8910What must be the inference from all this?
8910What must have been the inquietude of a people taken thus unprovided, who fancied they saw nature cruelly labouring to their annihilation?
8910What results from all this to a rational man?
8910What standard is it necessary man should possess, to enable him to judge of these substances?
8910What then is its effect?
8910What was the fruit that kings and people gathered from their imprudent kindness?
8910What was the harvest these men yielded to their labour?
8910What was the result?
8910When we have given this answer, what have we said?
8910Where are these oracles?
8910Where can be the propriety of such an argument?
8910Where is the man filled with kindness, endowed with humanity, who does not desire with all his heart to render his fellow creatures happy?
8910Where then are the beneficial effects arising, to mankind from the promulgation of this doctrine?
8910Where, then, are the web who are convinced of the rectitude of these systems?
8910Wherefore annihilate to me a being, whose consoling idea dries up the source of my tears-- who serves to calm my sorrows?
8910Wherefore do ye not follow in peace, the simple, easy route marked out for ye by nature?
8910Wherefore quit nature, which had already explained to you so much?
8910Wherefore, then, do they not in all things conform themselves?
8910Who are those in whom we shall find the complete certitude of these truths, so important to all?
8910Who is he who would not be a plant or a stone, every time reminiscence forces upon his imagination the irreparable loss of a beloved object?
8910Who is the man, that understandeth any thing of the fundamental principles of these systems?
8910Who is to measure the precise quantity of misery required to derive a certain portion of good?
8910Who is to say when the measure of evil will be full which it is necessary to suffer?
8910Who rather will not confess that it presents a picture of human nature, where every heart may find some corresponding harmony?
8910Whose capacity embraces spirituality, immateriality, incorporeity, or the mysteries of which he is every day informed?
8910Why do they attempt descriptions of that which they allow to be indescribable?
8910Why, in point of fact, just what the man does, who, thinking he has had too much rain, implores fine weather?
8910Will Doctor Clarke permit us to put one simple question: If to be obligated to do a certain given thing, is to be free, what is it to be coerced?
8910Will it in any manner make him a worse subject to his sovereign; a worse father to his children; a more unkind husband; a more faithless friend?
8910Will it require any capacity, more than is the common lot of a child, to comprehend the absurd contradiction of the two assertions?
8910Will the assertion of either Clarke or Plato stand absolutely in place of all evidence?
8910Would not every rational man have a right to ask the priest, where is thy superiority in matters of reasoning?
8910Would they themselves permit such to be convincing if used against them?
8910Would this be a desirable state?
8910XI Defence of the Sentiments contained in this Work.--Of Impiety.--Do there exist Atheists?
8910are we quite certain none of them may be mistaken?
8910how shall we be justified in giving credence to their powers?
8910of mixing up its evanescent conjectures with the confirmed aphorisms of time?
8910refuse to the Divinity, those qualities we discover in his creatures?
8910that their morals are as variable as their caprice?
8910would it be that from which humanity has the best founded prospect of that felicity, which is the desired object of his research?
13316Adipiscuntur igitur boni quod appetunt?
13316Ambulandi,inquit,"motum secundum naturam esse hominibus num negabis?"
13316An etiam causas, cur i d ita sit, deprehendisti?
13316An,inquit illa,"te alumne desererem nec sarcinam quam mei nominis inuidia sustulisti, communicato tecum labore partirer?
13316And doth not a man want that,quoth she,"which he desireth?"
13316And how can it be that, knowing the beginning, thou canst be ignorant of the end? 13316 And it is many ways clear that the vicious are miserable?"
13316And makest thou any doubt that the function of it doth naturally belong to the feet?
13316And what of the other which, being unpleasing, restraineth the evil with just punishment, doth not the people think it good?
13316And what other manner shall this be,quoth I,"besides these?"
13316And wilt thou doubt that he could, whom thou seest bring to pass what he desired?
13316Atqui non egeret eo, nisi possideret pecuniam quam posset amittere?
13316Atqui scis unde cuncta processerint?
13316Bona igitur?
13316But dost thou grant that all that is good is good by partaking goodness?
13316But he should not need that help, unless he had money which he might lose?
13316But he that wanteth anything is not altogether sufficient of himself?
13316But it is granted that the chiefest good is blessedness?
13316But knowest thou from whence all things had their beginning?
13316But that fortune which either exerciseth or correcteth is profitable?
13316But what account wilt thou make,quoth she,"to know what goodness itself is?"
13316Can God do evil?
13316Deniest thou,quoth she,"that every wicked man deserveth punishment?"
13316Do we not think,quoth she,"that blessedness is good?"
13316Dost thou ask me if I know that I am a reasonable and mortal living creature? 13316 Dost thou imagine that there is any mortal or frail thing which can cause this happy estate?"
13316Dost thou not think then that that is good which is profitable?
13316Egebit igitur,inquit,"extrinsecus petito praesidio quo suam pecuniam quisque tueatur?"
13316Eget uero,inquit,"eo quod quisque desiderat?"
13316Eiusque rei pedum officium esse naturale num dubitas?
13316Essene aliquid in his mortalibus caducisque rebus putas quod huiusmodi statum possit afferre?
13316Est igitur,inquit,"aliquis qui omnia posse homines putet?"
13316Estne igitur,inquit,"quod in quantum naturaliter agat relicta subsistendi appetentia uenire ad interitum corruptionemque desideret?"
13316Et qui fieri potest, ut principio cognito quis sit rerum finis ignores? 13316 Et qui i d,"inquam,"fieri potest?"
13316Et quid,inquam,"tu in has exilii nostri solitudines o omnium magistra uirtutum supero cardine delapsa uenisti?
13316Et quis erit,inquam,"praeter hos alius modus?"
13316Hast thou also understood the causes why it is so?
13316Have we not granted,quoth she,"that the good are happy, and the evil miserable?"
13316Hocine interrogas an esse me sciam rationale animal atque mortale? 13316 How can that be?"
13316How is this?
13316How?
13316How?
13316How?
13316If then,quoth she,"thou wert to examine this cause, whom wouldest thou appoint to be punished, him that did or that suffered wrong?"
13316Illius igitur praesentiam huius absentiam desiderabas?
13316Is the One the same as the Other?
13316Is there any then,quoth she,"that think that men can do all things?"
13316Is there anything,quoth she,"that in the course of nature, leaving the desire of being, seeketh to come to destruction and corruption?"
13316It is good then?
13316Ita est,inquam,"Quae uero aut exercet aut corrigit, prodest?"
13316Nonne igitur bonum censes esse quod prodest?
13316Nonne quia uel aberat quod abesse non uelles uel aderat quod adesse noluisses?
13316Nonne,inquit,"beatitudinem bonum esse censemus?"
13316Nostine igitur,inquit,"omne quod est tam diu manere atque subsistere quam diu sit unum, sed interire atque dissolui pariter atque unum destiterit?"
13316Now thinkest thou, that which is of this sort ought to be despised, or rather that it is worthy to be respected above all other things?
13316Now, what sayest thou to that pleasing fortune which is given in reward to the good, doth the common people account it bad?
13316Num igitur deus facere malum potest?
13316Num me,inquit,"fefellit abesse aliquid, per quod, uelut hiante ualli robore, in animum tuum perturbationum morbus inrepserit?
13316Num recordaris beatitudinem ipsum esse bonum eoque modo, cum beatitudo petitur, ab omnibus desiderari bonum?
13316O te alumne hac opinione felicem, si quidem hoc,inquit,"adieceris....""Quidnam?"
13316Omnem,inquit,"improbum num supplicio dignum negas?"
13316Omnes igitur homines boni pariter ac mali indiscreta intentione ad bonum peruenire nituntur?
13316Quae igitur cum discrepant minime bona sunt, cum uero unum esse coeperint, bona fiunt; nonne haec ut bona sint, unitatis fieri adeptione contingit?
13316Quaenam,inquit,"ista est?
13316Quem uero effecisse quod uoluerit uideas, num etiam potuisse dubitabis?
13316Qui igitur supplicio digni sunt miseros esse non dubitas?
13316Qui uero eget aliquo, non est usquequaque sibi ipse sufficiens?
13316Qui?
13316Quid igitur homo sit, poterisne proferre?
13316Quid igitur,inquam,"nihilne est quod uel casus uel fortuitum iure appellari queat?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid reliqua, quae cum sit aspera, iusto supplicio malos coercet, num bonam populus putat?
13316Quid uero iucunda, quae in praemium tribuitur bonis, num uulgus malam esse decernit?
13316Quid uero,inquit,"obscurumne hoc atque ignobile censes esse an omni celebritate clarissimum?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quid?
13316Quidnam?
13316Quidnam?
13316Quidni fateare, cum eam cotidie ualentior aliquis eripiat inuito? 13316 Quidni,"inquam,"meminerim?"
13316Quidni?
13316Quidni?
13316Quidni?
13316Quis i d neget?
13316Quis i d,inquam,"neget?"
13316Quod igitur nullius egeat alieni, quod suis cuncta uiribus possit, quod sit clarum atque reuerendum, nonne hoc etiam constat esse laetissimum?
13316Quod si conetur,ait,"num tandem proficiet quidquam aduersus eum quem iure beatitudinis potentissimum esse concessimus?"
13316Quod uero huiusmodi sit, spernendumne esse censes an contra rerum omnium ueneratione dignissimum?
13316Quonam modo?
13316Quonam,inquam"modo?"
13316Quonam,inquam,"modo?"
13316Quonam,inquam,"modo?"
13316Quonam?
13316Sed dic mihi, quoniam deo mundum regi non ambigis, quibus etiam gubernaculis regatur aduertis?
13316Sed omne quod bonum est boni participatione bonum esse concedis an minime?
13316Sentisne,inquit,"haec atque animo inlabuntur tuo, an[ Greek: onos luras]?
13316Shall we,quoth she,"frame our speech to the vulgar phrase, lest we seem to have as it were forsaken the use of human conversation?"
13316Should I,saith she,"forsake thee, my disciple, and not divide the burden, which thou bearest through hatred of my name, by partaking of thy labour?
13316Si igitur cognitor,ait,"resideres, cui supplicium inferendum putares, eine qui fecisset an qui pertulisset iniuriam?"
13316So that every man needeth some other help to defend his money?
13316So that thou feltest this insufficiency, even the height of thy wealth?
13316The offerer of the injury then would seem to thee more miserable than the receiver?
13316Then thou desiredst the presence of that, and the absence of this?
13316Then you do not doubt that those who deserve punishment are wretched?
13316Those things, then, which, when they differ, are not good and when they are one, become good, are they not made good by obtaining unity?
13316Tu itaque hanc insufficientiam plenus,inquit,"opibus sustinebas?"
13316Understandest thou these things,saith she,"and do they make impression in thy mind?
13316Visne igitur,inquit,"paulisper uulgi sermonibus accedamus, ne nimium uelut ab humanitatis usu recessisse uideamur?"
13316Was it not because thou either wantedst something which thou wouldst have had, or else hadst something which thou wouldst have wanted?
13316Well then, canst thou explicate what man is?
13316What if anything doth endeavour,quoth she,"can anything prevail against Him, whom we have granted to be most powerful by reason of His blessedness?"
13316What is that?
13316What is that?
13316What now,quoth she,"thinkest thou this to be obscure and base, or rather most excellent and famous?
13316What then,quoth I,"is there nothing that can rightly be called chance or fortune?
13316What then?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316What?
13316Whither?
13316Who can deny that?
13316Who denies that?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why should I not remember it?
13316Why shouldst thou not grant it, since that every day those which are more potent take it from others perforce? 13316 Why?"
13316Wilt thou deny,quoth she,"that the motion of walking is agreeable to the nature of men?"
13316''For what cause, O man, chargest thou me with daily complaints?
13316''Quid tu homo ream me cotidianis agis querelis?
1331610 Quid tantum miseri saeuos tyrannos Mirantur sine uiribus furentes?
1331610 Sed cur tanto flagrat amore Veri tectas reperire notas?
1331610 Vis aptam meritis uicem referre?
1331615 Quis enim quidquam nescius optet Aut quis ualeat nescita sequi?
1331620 Quid me felicem totiens iactastis amici?
133165 An nulla est discordia ueris Semperque sibi certa cohaerent?
13316Agnoscisne me?
13316Am I deceived in this?
13316An claritudo nihili pendenda est?
13316An cum mentem cerneret altam, 20 Pariter summam et singula norat?
13316An distant quia dissidentque mores, Iniustas acies et fera bella mouent Alternisque uolunt perire telis?
13316An ego sola meum ius exercere prohibebor?
13316An est aliquid, tametsi uulgus lateat, cui uocabula ista conueniant?"
13316An gemmarum fulgor oculos trahit?
13316An ignoras illam tuae ciuitatis antiquissimam legem, qua sanctum est ei ius exulare non esse quisquis in ea sedem fundare maluerit?
13316An illos accusatores iustos fecit praemissa damnatio?
13316An in bonis non est numeranda potentia?
13316An optasse illius ordinis salutem nefas uocabo?
13316An praesidio sunt amici quos non uirtus sed fortuna conciliat?
13316An quia inrationabiles substantiae non possunt habere personam qua[64] Christi uocabulum excipere possint[65]?
13316An scientes uolentesque bonum deserunt, ad uitia deflectunt?
13316An sectanda nouerunt?
13316An tu aliter existimas?"
13316An tu arbitraris quod nihilo indigeat egere potentia?"
13316An tu in hanc uitae scaenam nunc primum subitus hospesque uenisti?
13316An tu mores ignorabas meos?
13316An tu potentem censes quem uideas uelle quod non possit efficere?
13316An ubi Romani nominis transire fama nequit, Romani hominis gloria progredietur?
13316An uel si amiserit, neglegendum putat?
13316An uernis floribus ipse distingueris aut tua in aestiuos fructus intumescit ubertas?
13316An uero te longus ordo famulorum facit esse felicem?
13316An uero tu pretiosam aestimas abituram felicitatem?
13316An uos agrorum pulchritudo delectat?
13316An ut tu quoque mecum rea falsis criminationibus agiteris?
13316And after what manner do riches expel penury?
13316And except they be all one and the same thing, that they have nothing worth the desiring?"
13316And how far doth this error of yours extend, who think that any can be adorned with the ornaments of another?
13316And if there be no God, from whence cometh any good?''
13316And if there is nothing in these worthy to be desired, why art thou either glad when thou hast them or sorry when thou losest them?
13316And if they light upon wicked men, what Aetnas, belching flames, or what deluge can cause so great harms?
13316And if this strength of kingdoms be the author of blessedness, doth it not diminish happiness and bring misery, when it is in any way defective?
13316And is the present fortune dear unto thee, of whose stay thou art not sure, and whose departure will breed thy grief?
13316And shall the insatiable desire of men tie me to constancy, so contrary to my custom?
13316And then she said:"Thinkest thou that this world is governed by haphazard and chance?
13316And what if they were destitute of this so great and almost invincible help of the direction of nature?
13316And what plague is able to hurt us more than a familiar enemy?
13316And when, we answer, will this not be so?
13316And who either conserveth goodness or expelleth evils, but God the Ruler and Governor of men''s minds?
13316Are riches precious in virtue either of their own nature or of yours?
13316Are these the rewards which thy obedient servants have?
13316Are they not thirsty?
13316Are we the better for those friends which love us not for our virtue but for our prosperity?
13316Art thou come to bear me company in being falsely accused?"
13316Art thou thyself adorned with May flowers?
13316Art thou''like the ass, deaf to the lyre''?
13316At cuius praemii?
13316At si ad hominum iudicia reuertar, quis ille est cui haec non credenda modo sed saltem audienda uideantur?"
13316At si nescit, quid caeca petit?
13316At si noua ueraque non ex homine sumpta caro formata est, quo tanta tragoedia generationis?
13316At si quando, quod perrarum est, probis deferantur, quid in eis aliud quam probitas utentium placet?
13316At si quem sapientia praeditum uideres, num posses eum uel reuerentia uel ea qua est praeditus sapientia non dignum putare?
13316Auaritia feruet alienarum opum uiolentus ereptor?
13316Aut quid habeat amplum magnificumque gloria tam angustis exiguisque limitibus artata?
13316Aut quid hoc refert uaticinio illo ridiculo Tiresiae?
13316Because their famous names in books we read, Come we by them to know the dead?
13316Because this soul the highest mind did view, Must we needs say that it all nature knew?
13316Bona uero unde, si non est?''
13316But I pray thee, leavest thou no punishments for the souls after the death of the body?"
13316But I would have thee answer me to this also; dost thou remember that thou art a man?"
13316But are men so completely wise that whomsoever they judge wicked or honest must needs be so?
13316But by whose accusations did I receive this blow?
13316But did I deserve the same of the Senators themselves?
13316But do they always last among them where they had their beginning?
13316But how is it possible those things should not happen which are foreseen to be to come?
13316But if I return to the judgments of men, who is there that will think them worthy to be believed or so much as heard?"
13316But if flesh had been formed new and real and not taken from man, to what purpose was the tremendous tragedy of the conception?
13316But if thou seest any man endued with wisdom, canst thou esteem him unworthy of that respect or wisdom which he hath?
13316But in this rank of coherent causes, have we any free- will, or doth the fatal chain fasten also the motions of men''s minds?"
13316But in what Scriptures is the name of Christ ever made double?
13316But now have you laid hold of him who hath been brought up in Eleatical and Academical studies?
13316But now, if we follow Nestorius, what happens that is new?
13316But tell me, dost thou remember what is the end of things?
13316But thou wilt say,''If it is in my power to change my purpose, shall I frustrate providence if I chance to alter those things which she foreknoweth?''
13316But what crime was laid to my charge?
13316But what great or heroical matter can that glory have, which is pent up in so small and narrow bounds?
13316But what if thou hast tasted more abundantly of the good?
13316But what is more devoid of strength than blind ignorance?
13316But what is this excellent power which you esteemed so desirable?
13316But what reward hath he?
13316But who would not despise and neglect the service of so vile and frail a thing as his body?
13316But why should he call God Himself by the name of Christ?
13316But wilt thou have our arguments contend together?
13316By ignorance of that which is good?
13316Can they therefore behold, as is wo nt to be said of bodies, that inward complexion of souls?
13316Canst thou ever imperiously impose anything upon a free mind?
13316Canst thou remove a soul settled in firm reason from the quiet state which it possesseth?
13316Celsa num tandem ualuit potestas Vertere praui rabiem Neronis?
13316Comest thou now first as a pilgrim and stranger into the theatre of this life?
13316Consider you not, O earthly wights, whom you seem to excel?
13316Could Nestorius, I ask, dare to call the one man and the one God in Christ two Christs?
13316Could so many dangers ever make thee think to bear office with Decoratus,[124] having discovered him to be a very varlet and spy?
13316Could this glorious might Restrain the furious rage of wicked Nero''s spite?
13316Cur enim flammas quidem sursum leuitas uehit, terras uero deorsum pondus deprimit, nisi quod haec singulis loca motionesque conueniunt?
13316Cur enim omnino duos audeat Christos uocare, unum hominem alium deum?
13316Cur enim relicta uirtute uitia sectantur?
13316Cur inertes Terga nudatis?
13316Cur ita prouenit?
13316Cur uero non elementa quoque ipsa simili audeat appellare uocabulo per quae deus mira quaedam cotidianis motibus operatur?
13316Darest thou boast of the beauty which any of them have?
13316Deo uero atque homini quid non erit diuersa ratione disiunctum, si sub diuersitate naturae personarum quoque credatur mansisse discretio?
13316Deum uero ipsum Christi appellatione cur uocet?
13316Did my dealing deserve it?
13316Didst thou not know my fashion?
13316Didst thou not learn in thy youth that there lay two barrels, the one of good things and the other of bad,[105] at Jupiter''s threshold?
13316Dignitatibus fulgere uelis?
13316Diuitiaene uel uestra uel sui natura pretiosae sunt?
13316Do any of these belong to thee?
13316Does this square with catholic doctrine?
13316Dost thou esteem it a small benefit that this rough and harsh Fortune hath made known unto thee the minds of thy faithful friends?
13316Dost thou esteem that happiness precious which thou art to lose?
13316Dost thou not know me?
13316Doth not the very countenance of this place move thee?
13316Doth the glittering of jewels draw thy eyes after them?
13316Doth the light and unconstant change his courses?
13316Doth the outrageous fret and fume?
13316Doth the pleasant prospect of the fields delight you?
13316Doth the treacherous fellow rejoice that he hath deceived others with his hidden frauds?
13316Ea etiam quae inanimata esse creduntur nonne quod suum est quaeque simili ratione desiderant?
13316Endeavourest thou to stay the force of the turning wheel?
13316Estne aliquid tibi te ipso pretiosius?
13316Et illa:"Bonos,"inquit,"esse felices, malos uero miseros nonne concessimus?"
13316Et illa:"Nihilne aliud te esse nouisti?"
13316Et quid si hoc tam magno ac paene inuicto praeeuntis naturae desererentur auxilio?
13316Ex meane dispositione scientia diuina mutabitur, ut cum ego nunc hoc nunc aliud uelim, illa quoque noscendi uices alternare uideatur?
13316Fatebimur?
13316Ferox atque inquies linguam litigiis exercet?
13316First then, I ask thee thyself, who not long since didst abound with wealth; in that plenty of riches, was thy mind never troubled with any injuries?"
13316Foedis inmundisque libidinibus immergitur?
13316For are not rich men hungry?
13316For being askt how can we answer true Unless that grace within our hearts did dwell?
13316For can you be bigger than elephants, or stronger than bulls?
13316For dost thou think that this is the first time that Wisdom hath been exposed to danger by wicked men?
13316For doth thy sight impose any necessity upon those things which thou seest present?"
13316For from whence proceed so many complaints in law, but that money gotten either by violence or deceit is sought to be recovered by that means?"
13316For seem they to err who endeavour to want nothing?
13316For what is there wanting life and members that may justly seem beautiful to a nature not only endued with life but also with reason?
13316For what liberty remaineth there to be hoped for?
13316For what place can confusion have, since God disposeth all things in due order?
13316For what should I speak of kings''followers, since I show that kingdoms themselves are so full of weakness?
13316For what?
13316For who but a very fool would hate the good?
13316For who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?
13316For why do they follow vices, forsaking virtues?
13316For why doth levity lift up flames, or heaviness weigh down the earth, but because these places and motions are convenient for them?
13316For why should I speak of those feigned letters, in which I am charged to have hoped for Roman liberty?
13316For why should slippery chance Rule all things with such doubtful governance?
13316For, since nothing can be imagined better than God, who doubteth but that is good than which is nothing better?
13316Gloriam petas?
13316Haecine est bibliotheca, quam certissimam tibi sedem nostris in laribus ipsa delegeras?
13316Haecine omnia bonum-- sufficientia potentia ceteraque-- ueluti quaedam beatitudinis membra sunt an ad bonum ueluti ad uerticem cuncta referuntur?"
13316Haecine praemia referimus tibi obsequentes?
13316Hast thou forgotten how many ways, and in what degree thou art happy?
13316Have I now made clear the difference between the categories?
13316Have offices that force to plant virtues and expel vices in the minds of those who have them?
13316Have we not in ancient times before our Plato''s age had oftentimes great conflicts with the rashness of folly?
13316Have we not placed sufficiency in happiness, and granted that God is blessedness itself?"
13316Have you no proper and inward good, that you seek your goods in those things which are outward and separated from you?
13316Heu primus quis fuit ille Auri qui pondera tecti Gemmasque latere uolentes Pretiosa pericula fodit?
13316Hisne accedamus quos beluis similes esse monstrauimus?
13316Hoc uero qui fieri potest, si diuinitas in generatione Christi et humanam animam suscepit et corpus?
13316How cometh this to pass?
13316How doth God foreknow that these uncertain things shall be?
13316How many are there, thinkest thou, which would think themselves almost in Heaven if they had but the least part of the remains of thy fortune?
13316How often have I encountered with Conigastus, violently possessing himself with poor men''s goods?
13316How often have I put back Triguilla, Provost of the King''s house, from injuries which he had begun, yea, and finished also?
13316How shall she find them out?
13316How should I curse these fools?
13316Hunc uero Eleaticis atque Academicis studiis innutritum?
13316Iam uero quam sit inane quam futtile nobilitatis nomen, quis non uideat?
13316Iamne igitur uides quid haec omnia quae diximus consequatur?"
13316Iamne patet quae sit differentia praedicationum?
13316If heretofore one had care of the people''s provision, he was accounted a great man; now what is more abject than that office?
13316If it was the manhood of that man from whom all men descend, what manhood did divinity invest?
13316If not, what estate can be blessed by ignorant blindness?
13316If she knows not, why strives she with blind pain?
13316If she knows that which she doth so require, Why wisheth she known things to know again?
13316In hoc igitur minimo puncti quodam puncto circumsaepti atque conclusi de peruulganda fama, de proferendo nomine cogitatis?
13316In qua mecum saepe residens de humanarum diuinarumque rerum scientia disserebas?
13316Infitiabimur crimen, ne tibi pudor simus?
13316Inscitiane bonorum?
13316Insidiator occultus subripuisse fraudibus gaudet?
13316Inter eos uero apud quos ortae sunt, num perpetuo perdurant?
13316Irae intemperans fremit?
13316Is he drowned in filthy and unclean lusts?
13316Is it because irrational substances can not possess a Person enabling them to receive the name of Christ?
13316Is it shamefastness or insensibleness that makes thee silent?
13316Is not the operation of God seen plainly in men of holy life and notable piety?
13316Is the angry and unquiet man always contending and brawling?
13316Is the fearful and timorous afraid without cause?
13316Is the slow and stupid always idle?
13316Is the violent extorter of other men''s goods carried away with his covetous desire?
13316Is there anything more precious to thee than thyself?
13316Itane autem nullum est proprium uobis atque insitum bonum ut in externis ac sepositis rebus bona uestra quaeratis?
13316Itane nihil fortunam puduit si minus accusatae innocentiae, at accusantium uilitatis?
13316Leuis atque inconstans studia permutat?
13316Likewise, who seeth not what a vain and idle thing it is to be called noble?
13316May I seem to have provoked enmity enough against myself?
13316Modum desideras?
13316Must I only be forbidden to use my right?
13316My friends, why did you count me fortunate?
13316Nam bonos quis nisi stultissimus oderit?
13316Nam cum nihil deo melius excogitari queat, i d quo melius nihil est bonum esse quis dubitet?
13316Nam cur rogati sponte recta censetis, Ni mersus alto uiueret fomes corde?
13316Nam cur tantas lubrica uersat Fortuna uices?
13316Nam de compositis falso litteris quibus libertatem arguor sperasse Romanam quid attinet dicere?
13316Nam quae sperari reliqua libertas potest?
13316Nam quid ego de regum familiaribus disseram, cum regna ipsa tantae inbecillitatis plena demonstrem?
13316Nesciebas Croesum regem Lydorum Cyro paulo ante formidabilem mox deinde miserandum rogi flammis traditum misso caelitus imbre defensum?
13316Nihilne te ipsa loci facies mouet?
13316Nonne adulescentulus[ Greek: doious pithous ton men hena kakon ton d''heteron eaon] in Iouis limine iacere didicisti?
13316Nonne in beatitudine sufficientiam numerauimus deumque beatitudinem ipsam esse consensimus?"
13316Nonne in sanctis hominibus ac pietate conspicuis apertus diuinitatis actus agnoscitur?
13316Nonne, o terrena animalia, consideratis quibus qui praesidere uideamini?
13316Nos ad constantiam nostris moribus alienam inexpleta hominum cupiditas alligabit?
13316Nostraene artes ita meruerunt?
13316Now doth necessity compel any of these things to be done in this sort?"
13316Now what should I speak of bodily pleasures, the desire of which is full of anxiety, and the enjoying of them breeds repentance?
13316Now, how can any man exercise jurisdiction upon anybody except upon their bodies, and that which is inferior to their bodies, I mean their fortunes?
13316Now, what desire you with such loud praise of fortune?
13316Now, what is the health of souls but virtue?
13316Now, what is there that any can enforce upon another which he may not himself be enforced to sustain by another?
13316Now, why should I discourse of dignities and power which you, not knowing what true dignity and power meaneth, exalt to the skies?
13316Num audes alicuius talium splendore gloriari?
13316Num enim diuites esurire nequeunt?
13316Num enim elephantos mole, tauros robore superare poteritis, num tigres uelocitate praeibitis?
13316Num enim quae praesentia cernis, aliquam eis necessitatem tuus addit intuitus?"
13316Num enim tu aliunde argumentum futurorum necessitatis trahis, nisi quod ea quae praesciuntur non euenire non possunt?
13316Num enim uidentur errare hi qui nihilo indigere nituntur?
13316Num frigus hibernum pecuniosorum membra non sentiunt?
13316Num i d mentior?
13316Num igitur ea mentis integritate homines degunt, ut quos probos improbosue censuerunt eos quoque uti existimant esse necesse sit?
13316Num igitur quantum ad hoc attinet, quae ex arbitrio eueniunt ad necessitatem cogantur?"
13316Num igitur quidquam illorum ita fieri necessitas ulla compellit?"
13316Num imbecillum ac sine uiribus aestimandum est, quod omnibus rebus constat esse praestantius?
13316Num ita quasi cum duo corpora sibimet apponuntur, ut tantum locis iuncta sint et nihil in alterum ex alterius qualitate perueniat?
13316Num mentem firma sibi ratione cohaerentem de statu propriae quietis amouebis?
13316Num quidquam libero imperabis animo?
13316Num sitire non possunt?
13316Num te horum aliquid attingit?
13316Num te praeterit Paulum Persi regis a se capti calamitatibus pias inpendisse lacrimas?
13316Num uero labuntur hi qui quod sit optimum, i d etiam reuerentiae cultu dignissimum putent?
13316Num uis ea est magistratibus ut utentium mentibus uirtutes inserant uitia depellant?
13316Nunc enim primum censes apud inprobos mores lacessitam periculis esse sapientiam?
13316Or by what skill are several things espied?
13316Or did the condemnation, which went before, make them just accusers?
13316Or do they err who take that which is best to be likewise most worthy of respect?
13316Or do they know what they should embrace, but passion driveth them headlong the contrary way?
13316Or do they wittingly and willingly forsake goodness, and decline to vices?
13316Or doth much money make the owners senseless of cold in winter?
13316Or doth the multitude of servants make thee happy?
13316Or doth thy fertility teem with the fruits of summer?
13316Or having so, How shall she then their forms and natures know?
13316Or in true things can we no discord see, Because all certainties do still agree?
13316Or in what is this better than that ridiculous prophecy of Tiresias"Whatsoever I say shall either be or not be"[172]?
13316Or is fame to be contemned?
13316Or is not power to be esteemed good?
13316Or is there something, though unknown to the common sort, to which these names agree?"
13316Or rather dost thou believe that it is ruled by reason?"
13316Or swifter than tigers?
13316Or though he should lose it, doth he think that a thing of no moment?
13316Or to what the whole intention of nature tendeth?"
13316Or what is it to thee, if they be precious by nature?
13316Or what new thing has been wrought by the coming of the Saviour?
13316Or why should punishments, Due to the guilty, light on innocents?
13316Or will such ignorant pursuit maintain?
13316Ought, then, by parity of reason, all things to be just because He is just who willed them to be?
13316Pauidus ac fugax non metuenda formidat?
13316Pecuniamne congregare conaberis?
13316Perceivest thou now what followeth of all that we have hitherto said?"
13316Plures enim magnum saepe nomen falsis uulgi opinionibus abstulerunt; quo quid turpius excogitari potest?
13316Postremo cum omne praemium idcirco appetatur quoniam bonum esse creditur, quis boni compotem praemii iudicet expertem?
13316Potentem censes qui satellite latus ambit, qui quos terret ipse plus metuit, qui ut potens esse uideatur, in seruientium manu situm est?
13316Potentiamne desideras?
13316Primum igitur paterisne me pauculis rogationibus statum tuae mentis attingere atque temptare, ut qui modus sit tuae curationis intellegam?"
13316Pudore an stupore siluisti?
13316Quae diuisa recolligit 20 Alternumque legens iter Nunc summis caput inserit, Nunc decedit in infima, Tum sese referens sibi Veris falsa redarguit?
13316Quae est igitur facta hominis deique coniunctio?
13316Quae est igitur haec potestas quae sollicitudinum morsus expellere, quae formidinum aculeos uitare nequit?
13316Quae est igitur ista potentia quam pertimescunt habentes, quam nec cum habere uelis tutus sis et cum deponere cupias uitare non possis?
13316Quae iam praecipitem frena cupidinem 15 Certo fine retentent, Largis cum potius muneribus fluens Sitis ardescit habendi?
13316Quae omnia non modo ad tempus manendi uerum generatim quoque quasi in perpetuum permanendi ueluti quasdam machinas esse quis nesciat?
13316Quae si in improbissimum quemque ceciderunt, quae flammis Aetnae eructuantibus, quod diluuium tantas strages dederint?
13316Quae si recepta futurorum necessitate nihil uirium habere credantur, quid erit quo summo illi rerum principi conecti atque adhaerere possimus?
13316Quae tua tibi detraximus bona?
13316Quae uero est ista uestra expetibilis ac praeclara potentia?
13316Quae uero pestis efficacior ad nocendum quam familiaris inimicus?
13316Quae uero, inquies, potest ulla iniquior esse confusio, quam ut bonis tum aduersa tum prospera, malis etiam tum optata tum odiosa contingant?
13316Quae uis singula perspicit Aut quae cognita diuidit?
13316Quaenam discors foedera rerum Causa resoluit?
13316Quam multos esse coniectas qui sese caelo proximos arbitrentur, si de fortunae tuae reliquiis pars eis minima contingat?
13316Quam tibi fecimus iniuriam?
13316Quam uero late patet uester hic error qui ornari posse aliquid ornamentis existimatis alienis?
13316Quamquam quid ipsa scripta proficiant, quae cum suis auctoribus premit longior atque obscura uetustas?
13316Quando enim non fuit diuinitatis propria humanitatisque persona?
13316Quando uero non erit?
13316Quare si opes nec submouere possunt indigentiam et ipsae suam faciunt, quid est quod eas sufficientiam praestare credatis?
13316Quare si quid ita futurum est ut eius certus ac necessarius non sit euentus, i d euenturum esse praesciri qui poterit?
13316Quibus autem deferentibus perculsi sumus?
13316Quibus autem umquam scripturis nomen Christi geminatur?
13316Quibus si nihil inest appetendae pulchritudinis, quid est quod uel amissis doleas uel laeteris retentis?
13316Quid aegritudo quam uitia?
13316Quid autem de corporis uoluptatibus loquar, quarum appetentia quidem plena est anxietatis; satietas uero poenitentiae?
13316Quid autem de dignitatibus potentiaque disseram quae uos uerae dignitatis ac potestatis inscii caelo exaequatis?
13316Quid autem est quod in alium facere quisquam[111] possit, quod sustinere ab alio ipse non possit?
13316Quid autem tanto fortunae strepitu desideratis?
13316Quid dicam liberos consulares quorum iam, ut in i d aetatis pueris, uel paterni uel auiti specimen elucet ingenii?
13316Quid dignum stolidis mentibus inprecer?
13316Quid earum potius, aurumne an uis congesta pecuniae?
13316Quid enim furor hosticus ulla Vellet prior arma mouere, 20 Cum uulnera saeua uiderent Nec praemia sanguinis ulla?
13316Quid enim uel speret quisque uel etiam deprecetur, quando optanda omnia series indeflexa conectit?
13316Quid enim?
13316Quid est enim carens animae motu atque compage quod animatae rationabilique naturae pulchrum esse iure uideatur?
13316Quid est igitur o homo quod te in maestitiam luctumque deiecit?
13316Quid etiam diuina prouidentia humana opinione praestiterit; si uti homines incerta iudicat quorum est incertus euentus?
13316Quid externa bona pro tuis amplexaris?
13316Quid fles, quid lacrimis manas?
13316Quid genus et proauos strepitis?
13316Quid huic seueritati posse astrui uidetur?
13316Quid igitur ingemiscis?
13316Quid igitur inquies?
13316Quid igitur o magistra censes?
13316Quid igitur o mortales extra petitis intra uos positam felicitatem?
13316Quid igitur postulas ut necessaria fiant quae diuino lumine lustrentur, cum ne homines quidem necessaria faciant esse quae uideant?
13316Quid igitur referre putas, tune illam moriendo deseras an te illa fugiendo?
13316Quid igitur refert non esse necessaria, cum propter diuinae scientiae condicionem modis omnibus necessitatis instar eueniet?
13316Quid igitur, si ratiocinationi sensus imaginatioque refragentur, nihil esse illud uniuersale dicentes quod sese intueri ratio putet?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid igitur?
13316Quid inanibus gaudiis raperis?
13316Quid o superbi colla mortali iugo Frustra leuare gestiunt?
13316Quid quod omnes uelut in terras ore demerso trahunt alimenta radicibus ac per medullas robur corticemque diffundunt?
13316Quid si a te non tota discessi?
13316Quid si haec ipsa mei mutabilitas iusta tibi causa est sperandi meliora?
13316Quid si uberius de bonorum parte sumpsisti?
13316Quid taces?
13316Quid tragoediarum clamor aliud deflet nisi indiscreto ictu fortunam felicia regna uertentem?
13316Quid uero aliud animorum salus uidetur esse quam probitas?
13316Quid uero noui per aduentum saluatoris effectum est?
13316Quidni, cum a semet ipsis discerpentibus conscientiam uitiis quisque dissentiat faciantque saepe, quae cum gesserint non fuisse gerenda decernant?
13316Quidni, quando eorum felicitas perpetuo perdurat?
13316Quidni?
13316Quis autem alius uel seruator bonorum uel malorum depulsor quam rector ac medicator mentium deus?
13316Quis autem modus est quo pellatur diuitiis indigentia?
13316Quis enim coercente in ordinem cuncta deo locus esse ullus temeritati reliquus potest?
13316Quis est enim tam conpositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur?
13316Quis est ille tam felix qui cum dederit inpatientiae manus, statum suum mutare non optet?
13316Quis illos igitur putet beatos Quos miseri tribuunt honores?
13316Quis legem det amantibus?
13316Quis non te felicissimum cum tanto splendore socerorum, cum coniugis pudore, cum masculae quoque prolis opportunitate praedicauit?
13316Quis tanta deus Veris statuit bella duobus, Vt quae carptim singula constent Eadem nolint mixta iugari?
13316Quo uero quisquam ius aliquod in quempiam nisi in solum corpus et quod infra corpus est, fortunam loquor, possit exserere?
13316Quod si aeternitatis infinita spatia pertractes, quid habes quod de nominis tui diuturnitate laeteris?
13316Quod si haec regnorum potestas beatitudinis auctor est, nonne si qua parte defuerit, felicitatem minuat, miseriam inportet?
13316Quod si natura pulchra sunt, quid i d tua refert?
13316Quod si natura quidem inest, sed est ratione diuersum, cum de rerum principe loquamur deo, fingat qui potest: quis haec diuersa coniunxerit?
13316Quod si nec ex arbitrio retineri potest et calamitosos fugiens facit, quid est aliud fugax quam futurae quoddam calamitatis indicium?
13316Quod si neque i d ualent efficere quod promittunt bonisque pluribus carent, nonne liquido falsa in eis beatitudinis species deprehenditur?
13316Quod tantos iuuat excitare motus Et propria fatum sollicitare manu?
13316Quonam modo deus haec incerta futura praenoscit?
13316Quoue inueniat, quisque[173] repertam Queat ignarus noscere formam?
13316Requirentibus enim:"Ipse est pater qui filius?"
13316Rursus:"Idem alter qui alter?"
13316Satisne in me magnas uideor exaceruasse discordias?
13316Scitne quod appetit anxia nosse?
13316Secundum Nestorii uero sententiam quid contingit noui?
13316Secundum hanc igitur rationem cuncta oportet esse iusta, quoniam ipse iustus est qui ea esse uoluit?
13316Sed dic mihi, meministine, quis sit rerum finis, quoue totius naturae tendat intentio?"
13316Sed hoc quoque respondeas uelim, hominemne te esse meministi?"
13316Sed in hac haerentium sibi serie causarum estne ulla nostri arbitrii libertas an ipsos quoque humanorum motus animorum fatalis catena constringit?"
13316Sed num idem de patribus quoque merebamur?
13316Sed num in his eam reperiet, quae demonstrauimus i d quod pollicentur non posse conferre?"
13316Sed quaeso,"inquam,"te, nullane animarum supplicia post defunctum morte corpus relinquis?"
13316Sed quemadmodum bona sint, inquirendum est, utrumne participatione an substantia?
13316Sed qui fieri potest ut ea non proueniant quae futura esse prouidentur?
13316Sed quid eneruatius ignorantiae caecitate?
13316Sed quis non spernat atque abiciat uilissimae fragilissimaeque rei corporis seruum?
13316Sed quis nota scire laborat?
13316Sed quod decora nouimus uocabula, Num scire consumptos datur?
13316Sed uisne rationes ipsas inuicem collidamus?
13316Seekest thou for glory?
13316Seest thou now how all these in knowing do rather use their own force and faculty than the force of those things which are known?
13316Seest thou then in what mire wickedness wallows, and how clearly honesty shineth?
13316Seest thou therefore how strait and narrow that glory is which you labour to enlarge and increase?
13316Segnis ac stupidus torpit?
13316Shall I call it an offence to have wished the safety of that order?
13316Shall I confess it?
13316Shall I deny this charge, that I may not shame thee?
13316Shall we join ourselves to them whom we have proved to be like beasts?
13316Should I fear any accusations, as though this were any new matter?
13316Si eo de cuius semine ductus est homo, quem uestita diuinitas est?
13316Si nescit, quaenam beata sors esse potest ignorantiae caecitate?
13316Si non confitetur ex ea traxisse, dicat quo homine indutus aduenerit, utrumne eo qui deciderat praeuaricatione peccati an alio?
13316Sic rerum uersa condicio est ut diuinum merito rationis animal non aliter sibi splendere nisi inanimatae supellectilis possessione uideatur?
13316Supposest thou to find any constancy in human affairs, since that man himself is soon gone?
13316Tell me, since thou doubtest not that the world is governed by God, canst thou tell me also by what means it is governed?"
13316Than which what can be imagined more vile?
13316That things which severally well settled be Yet joined in one will never friendly prove?
13316The gold or the heaps of money?
13316Thinkest thou him mighty whom thou seest desire that which he can not do?
13316Thinkest thou otherwise?"
13316Thinkest thou that which needeth nothing, to stand in need of power?"
13316Those things also which are thought to be without all life, doth not every one in like manner desire that which appertaineth to their own good?
13316Thou to that certain end Governest all things; deniest Thou to intend The acts of men alone, Directing them in measure from Thy throne?
13316Though what do writings themselves avail which perish, as well as their authors, by continuance and obscurity of time?
13316To which she replied:"Dost thou not know thyself to be anything else?"
13316Tu uero uoluentis rotae impetum retinere conaris?
13316Tum ego collecto in uires animo:"Anne adhuc eget admonitione nec per se satis eminet fortunae in nos saeuientis asperitas?
13316Tum illa,"Quanti,"inquit,"aestimabis, si bonum ipsum quid sit agnoueris?"
13316Tum illa:"Huncine,"inquit,"mundum temerariis agi fortuitisque casibus putas, an ullum credis ei regimen inesse rationis?"
13316V. An uero regna regumque familiaritas efficere potentem ualet?
13316V. But can kingdoms and the familiarity of kings make a man mighty?
13316Vbi ambitus passionis?
13316Vbi nunc fidelis ossa Fabricii manent, 15 Quid Brutus aut rigidus Cato?
13316Vel quid amplius in Iesu generatione contingit quam in cuiuslibet alterius, si discretis utrisque personis discretae etiam fuere naturae?
13316Verumtamen ne te existimari miserum uelis, an numerum modumque tuae felicitatis oblitus es?
13316Videsne igitur quam sit angusta, quam compressa gloria quam dilatare ac propagare laboratis?
13316Videsne igitur quanto in caeno probra uoluantur, qua probitas luce resplendeat?
13316Videsne igitur ut in cognoscendo cuncta sua potius facultate quam eorum quae cognoscuntur utantur?
13316Videsne quantum malis dedecus adiciant dignitates?
13316Visne igitur cum fortuna calculum ponere?
13316Vllamne humanis rebus inesse constantiam reris, cum ipsum saepe hominem uelox hora dissoluat?
13316Vllamne igitur eius hominis potentiam putas, qui quod ipse in alio potest, ne i d in se alter ualeat efficere non possit?
13316Vnde enim forenses querimoniae nisi quod uel ui uel fraude nolentibus pecuniae repetuntur ereptae?"
13316Vnde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit:''Si quidem deus,''inquit,''est, unde mala?
13316Voluptariam uitam degas?
13316Was not fortune ashamed, if not that innocency was accused, yet at least that it had so vile and base accusers?
13316Well, when had not divinity and humanity each its proper Person?
13316What God between two truths such wars doth move?
13316What bridle can contain in bounds this their contentless will, When filled with riches they retain the thirst of having more?
13316What cause of discord breaks the bands of love?
13316What could be added to this severity?
13316What goods of thine have I taken from thee?
13316What if I be not wholly gone from thee?
13316What if this mutability of mine be a just cause for thee to hope for better?
13316What injury have I done thee?
13316What kind of union, then, between God and man has been effected?
13316What might be the reason of this?
13316What part of them can be so esteemed of?
13316What sickness have they but vices?
13316What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see?
13316What then?
13316What then?
13316What then?
13316What thinkest thou, O Mistress?
13316What?
13316When they ask"Is the Father the same as the Son?"
13316Whence not without cause one of thy familiar friends[95] demanded:''If,''saith he,''there be a God, from whence proceed so many evils?
13316Where the fame of the Roman name could not pass, can the glory of a Roman man penetrate?
13316Where the value of His long Passion?
13316Whereas, if thou weighest attentively the infinite spaces of eternity, what cause hast thou to rejoice at the prolonging of thy name?
13316Wherefore if riches can neither remove wants, and cause some themselves, why imagine you that they can cause sufficiency?
13316Wherefore lamentest thou?
13316Wherefore what power is this that the possessors fear, which when thou wilt have, thou art not secure, and when thou wilt leave, thou canst not avoid?
13316Wherefore, O man, what is it that hath cast thee into sorrow and grief?
13316Wherefore, O mortal men, why seek you for your felicity abroad, which is placed within yourselves?
13316Wherefore, enclosed and shut up in this smallest point of that other point, do you think of extending your fame and enlarging your name?
13316Wherefore, what matter is it whether thou by dying leavest it, or it forsaketh thee by flying?
13316Who after things unknown will strive to go?
13316Who can for lovers laws indite?
13316Who esteemed thee not most happy, having so noble a father- in- law, so chaste a wife, and so noble sons?
13316Who is so happy that if he yieldeth to discontent, desireth not to change his estate?
13316Who knows where faithful Fabrice''bones are pressed, Where Brutus and strict Cato rest?
13316Who would esteem of fading honours then Which may be given thus by the wickedest men?
13316Why brag you of your stock?
13316Why do fierce tyrants us affright, Whose rage is far beyond their might?
13316Why do proud men scorn that their necks should bear That yoke which every man must wear?
13316Why dost thou not speak?
13316Why embracest thou outward goods as if they were thine own?
13316Why not, when their felicity lasteth always?
13316Why not?
13316Why not?
13316Why rejoicest thou vainly?
13316Why sheddest thou so many tears?
13316Why should he not go on to call the very elements by that name?
13316Why should we strive to die so many ways, And slay ourselves with our own hands?
13316Why then, the hidden notes of things to find, Doth she with such a love of truth desire?
13316Why weepest thou?
13316Why, then, is that to be accounted feeble and of no force, which manifestly surpasses all other things?
13316Wilt thou endeavour to gather money?
13316Wilt thou excel in dignities?
13316Wilt thou have it in one word?
13316Wilt thou know the manner how?
13316Wilt thou live a voluptuous life?
13316Wilt thou then reckon with fortune?
13316Wishest thou for power?
13316Would those things which proceed from free- will be compelled to any necessity by this means?"
13316Wouldst thou give due desert to all?
13316Yet how can this be if Godhead in the conception of Christ received both human soul and body?
13316You gallant men pursue this way of high renown, Why yield you?
13316[ 103] Hast thou forgotten how Paul piously bewailed the calamities of King Perses his prisoner?
13316[ 104] What other thing doth the outcry of tragedies lament, but that fortune, having no respect, overturneth happy states?
13316[ 123] Seest thou what great ignominy dignities heap upon evil men?
13316[ 125] What power is this, then, which can not expel nor avoid biting cares and pricking fears?
13316[ 153] Do they such wars unjustly wage, Because their lives and manners disagree, And so themselves with mutual weapons kill?
13316[ 86] At cuius criminis arguimur summam quaeris?
13316or in what shall the divine providence exceed human opinion, if, as men, God judgeth those things to be uncertain the event of which is doubtful?