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28710Was it mythical?
9199And whence did He derive the material for it?"
9199But then arises the other great question:"How is this primary mass related to the cosmic ether?
9199Do these two original substances stand in fundamental and eternal antithesis to one another?
9199Is there such a thing?
9199Or was it the mobile ether itself, perhaps, that originally engendered the heavy mass?
9199Structure: dynamical; Structure: atomic, discontinuous, continuous, elastic substance, inelastic substance, not composed of atoms(?)
9199What was He doing before creation?
9199composed of atoms(?)]
34067He continues:-- How many testimonies of this violence which is in love, are daily found?
34067Now which of these systems has ever consoled an afflicted heart, or repeopled a lonely one?
34067This he promised to do and, as she found out from his servant( what is it these nuns do not find out?)
34067What else could he say?"
34067Which of these teachers has ever shown men how to wipe away a tear?
30709What is the dire necessity and''iron''law under which you groan?
30709But then the question arose, Is mind the originating source of the movements of matter, or is it not rather itself the product of them?
30709Can the argument from Design be said to retain its validity as a proof of the working of a controlling Mind?
30709Can we, in particular, still assert with any confidence that He is good?
30709How is the protoplasm made?
30709If we admit the evidence for the existence of a Creator, can we know anything about Him?
30709In his recently published book,_ The World of Life_, he has devoted a whole chapter to answering the question,"Is Nature cruel?"
30709Is Christianity Miraculous?
30709Is a Revolution in Pentateuchal Criticism at Hand?
30709Is there any connexion of development to be traced whereby life can be shewn to have arisen from inorganic matter?
30709Nay, might they not feel, if there were no such assurance, that it would be better to be altogether without His presence and influence?
30709Shall I Believe?
30709These were the chief of them:-- Is it any longer necessary, or even possible, to insist upon a First Cause for all that exists?
30709What satisfactory account could be given of the waste and cruelty which were seen to abound on every hand?
30709What was there to be said to bring relief to the mind and heart when charges were made against the benevolence and beneficence of Nature''s ways?
26397And when the poet asks,--"Ah, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away?"
26397But how is miracle to be differentiated from other providential dealings of God?
26397But what does this mean, except that, when no miracles occur, God is not personally,_ i.e._ actively, in the chain of natural causes and effects?
26397Does it require acceptance of these, as well as of its teachings?
26397FOOTNOTES:[ 35]"The Church asks, and it is entitled to ask the critic: Do you believe in the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus Christ?...
26397Is it, as they have been told, dependent for its attestation on signs and wonders occurring in the sphere of the senses?
26397Is not this less improbable than that the natural order of the universe should have been set aside?"
26397Or could it have been a material body suddenly becoming visible in a closed room, as narrated by Luke and John?
26397The boy Zerah Colburn in half a minute solved the problem,"How many seconds since the beginning of the Christian era?"
26397These alternatives are before us: Is the maximum or the minimum meaning to be assigned to the crucial word"dead"?
26397What, indeed, but a revised and true in place of a mistaken conception of the term_ Supernatural_?
26397Why may not the resuscitations in Christ''s time possibly have been similar cases?
26397Will it be replied to this that the critics can show for their hypothesis the admitted fact of the human proclivity to invent legends of miracle?
26397[ 22] Was Jesus aware that Lazarus was really not dead?
26397[ 33] How, then, is it consistent to affirm that no such marvels in ancient records are historical realities?
26397[ 46] Could it have been only an apparition?
35772The true SHEKINAH is Man: where else is the GOD''S PRESENCE manifested, not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow- man?
35772To the eye of vulgar Logic what is man? 35772 [ 73] THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.--The problem is: What is it in an organism which causes it to behave in a fashion so impossible for any machine?
35772[ 77] SOME DEDUCTIONS FROM HISTORY.--But, it may be asked, what definite conclusions have the foregoing chapters to offer? 35772 ( Hence the question, How is pure mathematics possible? 35772 Before asking,_ What_ do I know? 35772 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INTELLECT.--What is theintellect,"to which we look in vain for any_ complete_ explanation of existence?
35772Can our systematised knowledge sanction a religious attitude?
35772Can we know reality?
35772He begins by asking, How, as a matter of history, has human intellect developed?
35772He seeks to solve the problem: How is knowledge possible?
35772He then, and then only, proceeds to put the question( which uncritical thinkers always put_ first_), What can the intellect do for us?
35772How did these innumerable species naturally and automatically come into being?
35772How does the one affect the other?
35772Is not pure truth for Thee alone?
35772MECHANISM UNDERMINED.--How did this affect the mechanical theory?
35772To the eye of pure Reason what is he?
35772What are the relations between the two?
35772Will it return?
35772Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in jointstock company, to make one Shoeblack Happy?
35772[ 72] Professor J. Arthur Thomson, in an article entitled,"Is there one Science of Nature?"
35772the preliminary question should be,_ How_ do I know?
25931What is the Reality?
25931But let us carry this one step further: can we, by our analogy of Matter praying, understand why"the knowledge of God is Everlasting Life"?
25931Can the whole firmamental creation in its turn be nothing but a corner of some mightier scheme?
25931How then can we get a base line for our telescopes longer than the whole width of the earth?
25931Is there no way then by which we can continue our journey further towards the appreciation of this infinity?
25931May we not even glimpse at the future to which evolution is carrying us?
25931The question,"What is Truth?"
25931VIEW THREE MYSTICISM AND SYMBOLISM"Who can doubt that the Mystics know more than the Theologians, and that the Poets know more than the Scientists?
25931What do we see?
25931What has been the result of our investigation?
25931What is this wonderful sense?
25931What qualification was required of those who attended his Academy?
25931What, then, determined this sudden change, resulting in a wonderful accession of beauty to Architectural design?
25931and is not that exactly what I have done?
34019But why should one take trouble to insist upon the advance of science and art in the medieval city? 34019 Does it not seem to you that we have rightly and deservedly departed from the curiosity of all these men, so idle and so full of error?"
34019--"_tantaene animae celestibus irae_"--and we might be tempted to ask, can there be such foolish intolerance on the part of scientific teachers?
340191 May Catholics dissect?
34019But it will at once be said, what of Galileo?
34019Dante says:--"Perceive ye not we are of a wormlike kind, Born to bring forth the angel butterfly, That soars to Judgment, and no screen doth find?
34019Does not his case show the anti- scientific temper of churchmen?
34019How do our cities of 100,000 inhabitants compare with it?)
34019Long ago Virgil asked in a famous line,"Is it possible that there can be such great wrath in divine minds?"
34019Should we not rather maintain that they helped save science from its enemies?
34019That the careers of these men are profitless, who shall allege?
34019The Arabs and Paris said:"Why dissect if you trust Galen?
34019Till Pliny of the first century after Christ, what Roman was a scientist?
34019Virchow, in his address at Rome, said Morgagni was the first pathological anatomist who, instead of asking What is disease?
34019Whence shall this be obtained-- from religion or from some temporal reward?
34019Who would guess from this brief epitome of Eusebius''views that the latter had devoted to the subject more than thirty pages?
34019Why doth your soul lift up itself on high?
34019Why should a permission be necessary, however, will be asked?
34019With these seven centuries can we not properly compare the later seven in which the Christian Fathers were the teachers of the civilized world?
34019Yet what writer of to- day rises to charge them with a cardinal sin, because Science remained at a standstill among them for seven full centuries?
34019_ Analogous Examples_.--Should we be surprised, then, if men so occupied failed to add much to the world''s store of scientific knowledge?
34019asked Where is it?"
30126By whose interpretation, yours or mine?
30126And, still further, he interprets the Bible in the light(?)
30126But do you see where this brings us?
30126But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe My words?"
30126But suppose a man should seek to know spiritual truth and yet refuse to surrender his heart to Christ in faith, then what?
30126But suppose the inquirer doubts the possibility of entering into a scientific knowledge of spiritual truth by following this formula, what then?
30126For Satan raised a question about the Word,--"Yea, hath God said?"
30126For how can faith in an inerrant Bible and unbelief in its inerrancy abide in harmony in the same house?
30126For how can finite man relate and interpret the few and scattered facts he discovers in the realm of infinite truth?
30126Foster, in the Chicago University Divinity School: Is there no place to assail Christianity but a divinity school?
30126God responsible for the unspeakable woe and the unmeasured suffering of man?
30126God the author of that inherent force in man''s nature which has filled the earth with hatred, violence, bloodshed, and death?
30126Has present- day science anything to say about this?
30126How can a man by searching find out God?
30126How can a man follow such methods and yet imagine that he is scientific?
30126If the Bible is not a reliable guide in facts, how do we know that it is a trustworthy guide in doctrine?
30126In spite of the collapse of the supposed biological proofs, are there any tangible and scientifically established proofs in the geological realm?
30126Is a theological seminary an appropriate place for a general massacre of Christian doctrine?
30126Is pantheism true?
30126Is there no one to write infidel books except the professors of Christian theology?
30126These questions are: If the Bible is wrong in history, what guarantee is there that it is right in morals?
30126What can this mean but that Spencer saw, at least dimly, the radical difference between the intellectual and the spiritual faculties?
30126What reason more can the Church want to justify her for intolerance of a theory that will do this to a man''s faith?
30126When did the Church ever try to force a man, educated or ignorant, to give up what he knows to be facts in order to become a Christian?
30126When was a man ever asked by Christian schools to choose between the assured results and methods of scientific investigation and loyalty to Christ?
30126Where lies the cause?
28677And how shall we harmonize the quotations?
28677Another step and we have entered on the world of retribution, but what retribution is it?
28677Are we to die as a nation, over the ballot- box?
28677Are you in him?
28677Can we find no brighter, higher principles in the human character?
28677Can you hear a man speaking in a dead language?
28677Can you remove this difficulty?
28677Can you think of your relation and obligation to a being of whom you have never heard or learned?
28677Do we pray one way and vote another?
28677Do you ask how shall I enter the door?
28677Do you say this is not the way?
28677Have you faith in God and in his word?
28677Have you no interest in this open door?
28677How is this?
28677How is this?
28677How is this?
28677How very different is the Christian''s future happy home?
28677How was this?
28677Is it Polytheism or Monotheism?
28677Is it a filthy pool?
28677Is it the world of peace and joy?
28677Is it true of us, that we carry the seeds of our own destruction as a nation in our own bosom?
28677Is its leading thought of many gods, found in all religions?
28677Is the fundamental thought of either found in all the others?
28677It will be of interest also to mark the improvements(?)
28677Now, which is it that shades all religions?
28677O, why should the pages of this book of books be burthened with such things?
28677On Pentecost, when hundreds were convicted of their sins, and said, What shall we do?
28677Second, is religion human or Divine in its origin?
28677Shall we be so foolish?
28677Shall we look to this?
28677Some people say to me:''How can you vote for Garfield when he is a Christian and was a preacher?''
28677Then, why?
28677They are these: First, was Polytheism or Monotheism the primitive religion?
28677Well, well; how shall we understand this?
28677Were these thoughts the thoughts of men only, or were they too high for us?
28677Were those disciples who received the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins before Pentecost out of Christ-- uncleansed-- unwashed?
28677What was it for?
28677When was this and what was it for?
28677Why is it that all men are not put into Christ?
28677Will any one pretend that Polytheism is the primitive religion?
28677Will you come and enter by the Lord Jesus, become a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ, being baptized into Christ?
28677Will you enter Christ, or wait to be put into Christ?
28677or is it the region of tribulation and anguish?
42968And what becomes of the consciousness of the"immortal soul"when it no longer has the use of these organs?
42968Do we find in every phase of it a lofty moral principle or a wise ruler, guiding the destinies of nations?
42968Does the physicist investigate the purpose of electric force, or the chemist that of atomic weight?
42968Has it been_ created_ by supernatural power, or has it been_ evolved_ by a natural process?
42968How do animals evolve from ova?
42968How does the plant come forth from the seed?
42968How is the child formed in the mother''s womb?
42968How would that be possible if consciousness were an immaterial entity, independent of these anatomical organs?
42968May we consider this progressive development as the outcome of a conscious design or a moral order of the universe?
42968Or will he return to an earlier stage of development?
42968Phylogeny has to answer the much more obscure and difficult question:"What is the origin of the different organic species of plants and animals?"
42968That gave us the solution of the great philosophic problem:"How can purposive contrivances be produced by purely mechanical processes without design?"
42968What are the causes and the manner of this evolution?
42968What is its relation to the"mind"?
42968What is the difference between"intellect"and"reason"?
42968What is the difference between"sensation"and"sentiment"?
42968What is the inner meaning of"consciousness"?
42968What is the meaning of"free will"?
42968What is the relation between all these"psychic phenomena"and the"body"?
42968What is the relation of modern Christianity to this vast and unparalleled progress of science?
42968What is the relation of the ovum and the layers which arise from it to the tissues and cells which compose the fully developed organism?
42968What is the true nature of"emotion"?
42968What is the value of the immense progress which the passing nineteenth century has made in the knowledge of nature?
42968What is"instinct"?
42968What is"presentation"?
42968What progress have we really made during its course towards that immeasurably distant goal?
42968What stage in the attainment of truth have we actually arrived at in this closing year of the nineteenth century?
42968What would Frederick the Great, the"crowned thanatist and atheist,"say, could he compare his monistic views with those of his successor of to- day?
42968What, really, is the"soul"?
42968Will the feeble, childish old man, who has filled the world with the fame of his deeds in the ripeness of his age, live forever in mental decay?
42968Will the talented youth who has fallen in the wholesale murder of war unfold his rich, unused mental powers in Walhalla?
42968Will truth e''er be delivered if ye your forces rend?"
17194''Why callest thou Me good?
17194Against this evidence what is to be said?
17194And we have to consider the two questions, What has Revelation to say concerning Evolution?
17194At what point is there room in this case for any responsibility?
17194But if a man do believe there is a God, what kind of evidence ought he to expect to show him that God has interfered in the course of the creation?
17194But if it be his character, then follows the further question, what determines his character?
17194But what causes these variations?
17194But''Why askest thou Me to do this?
17194By what means then can a man keep his spiritual perception in full activity?
17194His third,''why not as far as the moon?''
17194How can I be held responsible for what is the pure result of the circumstances in which I was born?
17194If his action be determined by something which is not himself, how can the moral burden of it be put on him?
17194Is all this mere chance?
17194Is the future soul wrapped up in it from the first, and dormant till the hour of awakening comes?
17194May not Science go back to the time when these processes had not yet begun?
17194May not the starting- point of the history of the universe be a condition in which the simple elements were still uncombined?
17194Now to deal with this second assertion first, we must ask what is the nature of the evidence that would be deemed sufficient?
17194Now, how have these compounds been formed?
17194Religion, on the other hand, tells every man that he is responsible, and how can he be responsible if he is not free?
17194The narrative is not touched by the question, Was this a single act done in a moment, or a process lasting through millions of years?
17194The sequence of things can not otherwise be explained; but why should the sequence of all things that happen be capable of being explained?
17194This then is the answer to the question, Why do we believe in the uniformity of Nature?
17194What evidence, then, is there in the world of phenomena that He has ever thus interfered?
17194What is felt to be yet wanting?
17194What is its justification?
17194What is its source?
17194What right have we to assume this Uniformity in Nature?
17194What right have we to make such an assumption as this?
17194What, if any, are its limits?
17194Why should the wonderful grace, and delicacy, and harmony of tint be added?
17194Why then should religious men independently of its relation to revelation shrink from it, as very many unquestionably do?
17194Why then these attempts?
17194and what determines what they shall be?
17194and what has Science to say concerning Miracles?
17194or is it given at some moment in the development?
42466( 2) How many may be regarded as modifications of previous species?
42466( 3) How many are migrants from other regions where they have been known to exist previously?
42466( 4) How many are absolutely new species?
42466--literally,"Canst thou sound the depths of God?"
42466Are we elevated on a pedestal, so to speak, above nature?
42466Are, then, these people the types of any ancient, or of the most ancient, European race?
42466But is this a mere superstition, or have they reason for it?
42466But the question arises, What is the monistic power beyond these-- the"power behind nature"?
42466Did he live in that wide Post- Pliocene continent which extended westward through Ireland?
42466Does this conception of natural law give us any warrant for the idea that the universe is a product of chance?
42466Had he visited or seen from afar the great island Atlantis, whose inhabitants could almost see in the sunset sky the islands of the blest?
42466Here we raise a question which should perhaps have been considered earlier: Is man himself actually a part of what we call nature?
42466How can he separate the true from the false?
42466How were the five- fingered limbs acquired in this abrupt way?
42466If it was originally in one mass, whence came the incalculable power by which it was rent into innumerable suns and systems?
42466Is it meant that the things are actually alike or only apparently so?
42466Is it not the highest realization of all that we can conceive of the plans of superhuman intelligence?
42466Is it the material organism or any one of its organs or parts?
42466Is nature the universe outside of us, containing the things that we study and which constitute our environment?
42466Is the universe self- existent, or does it show evidence of creative power and divinity?
42466Is this automatism?
42466Is this machinery?
42466It may be asked, Is there, then, no place in the geological record even for theistic evolution?
42466Must he resign himself to the condition of one who either believes on mere authority or refuses to believe anything?
42466Or did he live at a later time, after the Post- Pliocene subsidence, and when the land had assumed its present form?
42466That instinct is hereditary is evident; but the question is, How did it begin?
42466The real question is,"Is there a God who manifests himself to us mediately and practically?"
42466The writer of the book of Job puts this as plainly as any modern agnostic in the passage beginning"Canst thou by searching find out God?"
42466We have already noticed the arts and implements of these people, but what manner of people were they in themselves?
42466What is the_ ego_ which he admits?
42466What proof is there of the spontaneous evolution of living forms from inorganic matter?
42466Who knows?
42466Why may it not be so with resistance in general?
42466Why should it be otherwise in things belonging to the domains of reason and conscience?
42466Why were they five rather than any other number?
42466Why, when once introduced, have they continued unchanged up to the present day?
42466or is it something distinct, of which the organism is merely the garment, or outward manifestation?
42466or is the organism itself anything more than a bundle of appearances partially known and scarcely understood by that which calls itself"I"?
42466or must he adopt the attitude of the Pyrrhonist who thinks that anything may be either true or false?
42466or, on the other hand, does nature include man himself?
16942''Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?''
16942''Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?''
16942And is it not probable that the materialistic position( discredited even by philosophy) is due simply to custom and want of imagination?
16942Are you highly intellectual?
16942But how if I attempt to think of such a series as antecedent to_ all_ actions throughout the universe...?
16942But the answer always should be to move the ulterior question-- what is the nature of natural causation?
16942But, observe, it is not one and the same thing to ask, Is the will entirely determined from without?
16942Else why the inextinguishable instincts?
16942Given the facts of heredity, variation, struggle for existence, and the consequent survival of the fittest, what follows?
16942Hence the whole controversy ought to be seen by both sides to resolve itself into this-- is or is not the will determined by_ x_?
16942How do you know?
16942If He did not know, why should He, if He had previously''emptied Himself''of omniscience?
16942If determined from without, is there any room for freedom, in the sense required for saving the doctrine of moral responsibility?
16942If it is said that they in turn were determined by the outcome of previous systems, how about these systems?
16942If the''first Man''was allegorical, why not the''second''?
16942Is it phenomenal or ontological; ultimate or derivative?
16942Is it said that there are compensating enjoyments?
16942Is it satisfactory?
16942Or are you but a peasant in your parish church, with knowledge of little else than your Bible?
16942Or how can it be said that, in point of fact, there_ has_ been a waste, or_ has_ been a sacrifice?
16942Or if form were supposed necessary for man as distinguished from God, that he was to be an angel?
16942The important question for us is, Has God spoken through the medium of our religious instincts?
16942The question is only: Is such a process_ per se_ incompatible with the hypothesis of design?
16942The question is, Are these facts of adaptation_ per se_ sufficient evidence of design as their cause?
16942What then is he to do?
16942What, then, is the value of the inference?
16942Why was it not said that the''soul''alone should survive as a disembodied''spirit''?
16942Will the teleologist maintain that this selective process is itself indicative of special design?
16942_ from without_?
16942and Is the will entirely determined by natural causation(_ x_)?
16942is or is not mechanical causation''the outward and visible form of an inward and spiritual grace''?
16942moral, aesthetic, religious faculties)?
22150And who would have dared to suggest the further doctrine: matter can also feel and get a consciousness of things?
22150Finally, who would have dared even to say: matter can also become a self- conscious and free personality?
22150For where we are no longer able to find secondary causes, who can assert that God no longer uses any?
22150For{ 145} whence does the whole richness of the appearances in the world come?
22150Have they originated from illusions, and do they lead to illusions?
22150He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
22150How does the material become something that is felt?
22150How therefore, can we look upon such an organ, when finally it is perfect, as a product of selection in the sense of Darwin?"
22150Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will, as these transcend mechanical motion?
22150Is there even a single scientific description conceivable without its being full of anthropomorphisms?
22150Now, we ask: Is this biogenetic maxim correct?
22150Now, what is this end?
22150Should, then, the highest instincts of the highest creature on earth alone make an exception?
22150Such a diligent work can certainly not be without gain; but wherein will this gain consist?
22150The three questions are: How has the living sprung from that which is without life?
22150We then could not avoid the question: what, according to the conception of the author, did God do in these six nights of his week of creation?
22150What difference in rank, for instance, is there between an oyster and a cuttle- fish?
22150What else set free those active causes, at the right time and in the right place?
22150What is the demonstrable cause( not the condition, but the cause) of a sentient subject?
22150Where the realm of visible causes ceases and that of the invisible begins, who can exclude secondary causes?
22150Wherein lies the real necessity that there should be sensation?
22150While, therefore, Strauss, to the question,"Are we still Christians?"
22150Why not?
22150Would not a_ beginning_ of mankind be really lost, in case that theory of evolution should gain authority?
22150between a cochineal and a bee or ant?
22150gives an emphatic"No,"he answers the question,"Have we still a religion?"
22150or have we to look for the answer to these questions, which natural science can no longer give, in another science-- namely, philosophy?
22150the sentient( and conscious) being from that which is without sensation?
22150which will more probably be preserved and procreate offspring?
12852And who is it now?
12852How did this all first come to be you? 12852 Who is that?"
128528?
12852But how did he get that intelligence?
12852But how much worse is it when we consider-- what criterion does mankind possess for disinterring and distinguishing the elements of truth?
12852But looking at the Genesis narrative, who could suppose it to be a parable?
12852But need it always be so made?
12852But what possible reason have they for this conclusion?
12852But why should there be a second narrative at all?
12852Can all these things happen_ without_ such aid?
12852Can it be believed, then, that protoplasm, as the origin of life, is self- caused, and self- developed?
12852Can it be that the professor has for the moment overlooked one very simple fact?
12852First of all, how did any_ substance_, however vapoury and tenuous, come to exist, when previously there was nothing?
12852Here we must stop to ask how this protoplasm, or simplest form of organic life, came to exist?
12852Here, then, he could distinguish and perhaps name the species; but what more was to be done?
12852How are we to understand what was meant by the Tree of Life or the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, or by the Serpent speaking and beguiling Eve?
12852How did he come to place_ birds_ along with fish and water monsters, and not separately?]
12852How did he get to formulate the idea of a_ God_ when he had simplified his group of many spirits into one?
12852How did it get its_ life_--its property of taking nourishment, of growing and of giving birth to other creatures like itself?
12852How did man get the idea of a personal spirit or double-- no such thing,_ ex hypothesi_ existing?
12852How does such a delicate ornament answer the demands of mere conspicuousness?
12852How is it, then, that this is not the case?
12852How so?
12852How then can it exist in animals?
12852How, for instance, are we told of the temptation and fall of man?
12852If the_ days_ of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh_ day_ of rest to be understood?
12852If this bee became extinct, the plant would die out; how can such a development be advantageous to it?
12852Is it, for instance, the experience of the mass of men, as men, that the"fleshly mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace"?
12852Is not such a production and such a design the true essence of Creation?
12852Is the account in the Book of Genesis true?
12852Lastly, how are we to account for the beauty of autumnal tints in woods, or coloured_ leaves_ in plants such as the_ Caladium_?
12852May I make one remark on this interesting science tournament?
12852Now, in any case, the writer could have had no knowledge of any kind_ of his own_ on the subject: how did he hit on this particular arrangement?
12852Was"bdellium"( as probably being a fragrant gum) one of these offerings?
12852What is the cause, what is the purpose, what is the plan in the scheme of nature, of these structures?
12852Why are they fanatics, Sisyphus- labourers, and what not?
12852Why is Professor Huxley so angry or so contemptuous with people who value the Bible, whole and as it stands, and want to see its accuracy vindicated?
12852Why is that?
12852Why is the dental formula of the_ viverrinae_ different?
12852Why not any other animal, or a nondescript-- a form which no zoologist could place, recognize, or classify?
12852Why should stags shed their horns also, leaving them defenceless for a time?
12852Why should the Jews have received that truth through the medium of a story of which the whole framework was false, and nothing but the moral true?
12852Why should variation take certain directions?
12852Why should_ development_ have gone in different directions_ towards the same object_?
12852Why, again, are savages prone to imagine natural phenomena to be caused or actuated by"spirits"?
12852[ 1] In what possible way would this beauty serve for any purely_ useful_ purpose?
12852[ 1]"Have we not here an exhibition which can not be accounted for on any principle of natural utility?
12852an elephant?
12852and who has changed the inconvenient, the painful, into the_ wrong_?
12852how comes it that natural forces and conditions of life so occur and co- operate as to produce the variety of changes needed?
28673Ca n''t you stay awhile?
28673Wo n''t you tarry awhile?
28673--_Ingersoll._ Therefore, if a man stops at a hotel and drinks till he has to be helped home, he is no drunkard?
2867336, 39._***** Have infidels been martyred on account of their infidelity?
28673Alexander lauds her religion and faith as worthy of immortal honor(?
28673And if the Savior paid the debt, why is it that sinners are to pay it themselves unless they repent?
28673And what right have Atheists to claim instinct as an original endowment, in certain cases?
28673Are Christians always holding up their great minds?
28673Are the rushings of the Wild Cat river moral or immoral?
28673But is it true that the atonement was completed upon the cross or by the death of Christ only?
28673But why should they claim this exception of an original endowment?
28673Can the life- long deaf talk as well as those whose ears are perfect?
28673Can there be invention without an inventive being?
28673Can there be light without a cause?
28673Can you forgive a debt that is paid?
28673Common- sense skeptic says:"Who required that?
28673Did Christ ever sin?
28673Did He not know what He was doing?
28673Did I not hear you say that you had wreaked your vengeance upon the innocent one?"
28673Did he not hear and learn from the"ancient of days"--from his great author?
28673Did man not have the privilege of learning to talk?
28673Did they come of themselves, or did somebody make and arrange them?
28673Do n''t you see that sinless one?
28673Do you say mind or spirit does not belong as a real factor to science?
28673Do you see?
28673Do you tell us that society made language?
28673Does not the law say''It is the soul that sinneth that shall die?''
28673Hartman and Binius, in more modern times, flatter her prudence and piety(?).
28673Has the history of humanity furnished a single case in which a person, perfectly deaf during all his life, had the ability to speak words?
28673Have we not the most certain evidence of the existence of mind?
28673He that arranged the vocal powers of man, could He not speak?
28673He that created the ear, could He not hear?
28673Here it is: Theodorus and Theophanes extol that vile woman for her VIRTUE AND EXCELLENCE(?).
28673How is this?
28673Infidels, who dislike( will you hear it?)
28673Ingersoll is a temperance man(?)
28673Is it not unreasonable to suppose that the author of man''s being took no delight in him?
28673Is it possible for such a thing to take place?
28673Is light a certain evidence that there is light, or a source of light?
28673Is not reasoning a proof that there is something which reasons?
28673Is there any place in your nature where life and death, or heaven and hell, can meet in festive joys?
28673Is there no evidence of an intelligent authorship here?
28673It is this: How many teeth have you got in your mouth; how many does a man have?
28673Just now there is no question put so often by men who feign to be unbelievers as,"What do you think of Colonel Ingersoll?"
28673LANGUAGE AND RELIGION, FROM WHENCE?
28673One question, and only one, will be of interest to me in the judgment, and that is this, how have I lived?
28673Shall we say that the history of the gospel is a pure fiction?
28673Suppose we test the merits of the case in this manner, then who are your infidels that will compare with Jesus Christ and his apostles?
28673TO WHOM ARE WE INDEBTED?
28673That you may remember it, I will repeat it once more, it is this: who did the first man hear in order to learn the talker''s trade?
28673The facts developed at this point ought to be remembered, and the question, why can the deaf, described, never talk?
28673The question possible came up, Whence came they, and all the other things which I now see and hear?
28673The question therefore comes back again, have we any knowledge of mind?
28673Their inventive genius is equally vigorous; this being true, why should the defect of the ear deprive them of the power of speech?
28673WHERE DID LANGUAGE COME FROM?
28673WHO, OR WHAT, IS THAT CAUSE?
28673Was it death in sin?
28673Was it physical death?
28673Were they always here?
28673What are the deeds which were done in my body?
28673What is a vagabond on the earth but a man without a home?
28673What is her education even now, and in our own country?
28673What is it?
28673What is such a woman good for?
28673What was it that Christ suffered in the sinners''law- place?
28673What will come next?
28673When I see a man doing this I suspect that he has lost his love of home associations, and ask myself the question, What is the trouble?
28673Where are your persons of such profound understanding?
28673Where, and under what circumstances, were their schools established?
28673Who can blame men who never heard any thing better for being unbelievers?
28673Who counted him guilty of the whole?
28673Who?"
28673Why do the life- long deaf never talk?
28673Why not?
28673Why should any sensible man attribute such dealings to the Father of Spirits?
28673Why this modification in the teachings of evolutionists?
28673Will the Deist answer this question?
28673Will you obey Him and live?
28673Would you like to have an organ which would enable you to see spirits?
28673or, with such men, even, as Milton, Clarendon, Hale, Bacon, Boyle, Locke, Newton, Addison, Lyttleton, West, Johnson and Campbell?
28673will you tell us where this cell- building instinct came from?
33049Canst thou tighten the bonds of the Pleiades,[93] Or loose the bands of Orion? 33049 Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?
33049Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and how faint the whisper which we hear of him-- the thunder of his power who could understand?
33049Where is the way where light dwelleth? 33049 Where wast thou when I founded the earth?
33049''So careful of the type?''
33049:"When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him?"
33049Again, were the separated light and darkness the morning and evening?
33049And if this be so, is it reasonable to suppose that either, without the other, can be fully understood?
33049Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?
33049Are none of them constant in the one supposed species, and constantly absent in the other?
33049Are not improved steam- engines or clocks the lineal descendants of some existing steam- engine or clock?
33049Are they no greater than those which occur in other species of similar structure or habits?
33049But admitting all this, it may be asked, Are these ancient records of any value to us?
33049But may it not equally deride the faith of Elijah himself, when, after three years of drought, he prayed in the sight of assembled Israel for rain?
33049But the question remains-- If there was a beginning, what existed in that beginning?
33049But what is the meaning of evening and morning, if these days were long periods?
33049But what made the use of these divisions necessary or appropriate?
33049But where shall wisdom be found, And where is the place of understanding?"
33049But with respect to the precise origin of this cosmogony, the question now arises, Is it really in substance a revelation from God to man?
33049But, says another objector, is not the present the child of the past?
33049Canst thou bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, Or lead forth Arcturus and its sons?
33049Canst thou establish a dominion even over the earth?"
33049Did Abraham take with him in his pilgrimage the records of his people?
33049Do these mark a different origin?
33049Do they occur in points known in other species to be readily variable, or in points that usually remain unchanged?
33049Dost thou know the poising of the clouds, The wonderful work of the Perfect in knowledge?
33049Dost thou know the poising of the dark clouds, The wonderful works of the Perfect in knowledge?"
33049Dost thou know when God disposes them, And the lightning of his cloud shines forth?
33049Dost thou know when God disposes these things, And the lightning of his cloud flashes forth?
33049Dost thou send forth the lightnings, and they go, And say unto thee, Here are we?
33049Equally fine are some of the following lines:"Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
33049Grant this first point to science, and what farther conflict is there?
33049Have we or can we have any certain solution of those two great questions-- Whence are all things?
33049How could such a scene be represented in words?
33049How is all this to be explained?
33049How, when confined to a limited region, could he increase and multiply and replenish the earth?
33049If one, is He an imperfect or capricious being who changes his plans of operation?
33049If so, why is the evening mentioned first, contrary to the supposed facts of the case?
33049In Job, 38th chapter, we have the following:"In what way is the lightning distributed, And how is the east wind spread abroad over the earth?
33049Is there ever a new creation in art or science any more than in nature?
33049It may be asked-- Must we suppose that the Adam of the Bible was of the type of the coarsely featured and gigantic men of the European caverns?
33049It may still be asked-- Were not the races created as they are, with especial reference to these conditions?
33049Knowest thou the laws of the heavens, Or hast thou appointed their dominion over the earth?"
33049May we not now dispense with them, and trust to the light of science?
33049No more?
33049Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
33049Or who laid its corner- stone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
33049Pleistocene or Glacial Age,|================================================================== The question recurs-- Why are God''s days so long?
33049The important questions still remain: When was this trade commenced, and how rapidly did it extend itself from the sea- coast across Europe?
33049The questions would have arisen-- Are there more creative Powers than one?
33049The words themselves suggest the important question: Are they intended to represent this as the original condition of the earth?
33049Under the first of these we inquire-- Are they no greater in amount than those which may be observed in individuals of the same parentage?
33049Upon what are its foundations settled?
33049Was it a scene of desolation and confusion when it sprang from the hand of its Creator?
33049Was it the water''s fathomless abyss?
33049Was the old primeval darkness the evening or night, and the first breaking forth of light morning?
33049What covered all?
33049What hope of answer, or redress?
33049What is the absolute antiquity of the Palæocosmic age in Europe?
33049What was the nature of this earliest vegetation?
33049What, said these ancients, can have existed before the''darkness?''
33049What, then, are the facts in the case of man?
33049What, then, are we to say of the imaginary"conflict of science with religion,"of which so much has been made?
33049What, then, was the nature of the light which on the first day shone without the presence of any local luminary?
33049When the dust groweth into mire, And the clods cleave fast together?"
33049When thy garments become warm When he quieteth the earth by the south wind; Hast thou with him spread out the clouds Firm and like a molten mirror?
33049Who can number the clouds by wisdom, Or cause the bottles of heaven to empty themselves?
33049Who hath fixed the proportion thereof, if thou knowest?
33049Who hath opened a channel for the pouring rain, Or a way for the thunder- flash?
33049Who shut up the sea with doors In its bursting forth as from the womb?
33049Who stretched the line upon it?
33049Who will admit such an absurdity?"
33049Why was the completion of the heavenly bodies so long delayed?
33049Why was the earth thus occupied for countless ages by an animal population whose highest members were reptiles and birds?
33049Why were light and vegetation introduced previously?
33049and Whither do all things tend?
33049and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and know the way to the house thereof?"
33049what concealed?
33049what sheltered?
33049why, indeed, are the evening and morning mentioned at all, since on that supposition this is merely a repetition?
33049| oldest rocks-- Eozoic Period of| Geology?
33049|Gymnosperms,||_Articulata_--Myriapods,|Endogens?
28672What may we reasonably believe to be God''s design in raising up the preachers called Methodists? 28672 are not entitled to be heard?"
28672: are they teachable?
28672Are all things hard to believe in the Bible?
28672Are they believing this, that, and the other story, which they read?
28672Are they old enough and wise enough to know what is wrong?
28672Are they reading novels between Sundays, and all other kinds of literature?
28672But shall we reject a thing because it is hard to believe?
28672But then, we theologians"have no right to be heard?"
28672But why should this effort not be made?
28672But, when they are in the east, our planet does not tip up in the west?
28672By whom was it written?
28672Can inanimate forces do more than living intelligent Nature?
28672Can you get them so far apart as to hold the one class-- things-- to be eternal, and the other class-- properties-- not?
28672Can you get this conclusion out of, or away from logical deductions?
28672Come, gentlemen; how is this?
28672Could you write the history of your origin, of your birth, without the aid of some one older than yourself?
28672Did an eternal life- germ evolve all the forms of organic life known upon our earth?
28672Did it always exist?
28672Did these do more than animated intelligence can do?
28672Did you have the powers of observation in active exercise, watching every movement among the causes that brought you into being?
28672Do not even publicans the same?''
28672Do they know what is right?
28672Do you say life was always in matter?
28672Do you say, we have given up all hope of witnessing its demonstration?
28672Does a man''s believing power rest upon flowery beds of ease in the teaching of infidelity?
28672Does this have the right ring?
28672Fathers and mothers, where are your children?
28672From a state of death?
28672From whence did they come, and how?
28672Gentlemen, will you get away with this conclusion?
28672Have you taught them?
28672Have you weighed the matter I gave you in our last interview?
28672I suppose you are now ready to ask,"Is it not a scientific truth that matter is eternal?"
28672If so, is this not evolution backwards?
28672If unintelligent dead matter has performed the feat, without wisdom or design, why should it not be performed by living intelligent Nature?
28672If you ca n''t are you not below the inanimate Nature which did it for the first time?
28672If you found it in the book of Nature and read it there, you can tell me on what page it is written?
28672If you leave the Bible, to what will you go?
28672In the so- called realms of free- thought is there nothing hard to believe?
28672Is a moneron an eternal life germ?
28672Is it not hard to believe all this about Jesus, and at the same time believe that he gave to the world a false religion?
28672Is it not possible that you have obtained your intelligence from another source-- from what I call the revelation of the Creator?
28672Is it not retrogression, or development at the expense of the loss of power to rise to the plane of unintelligent mind and life evolving nature?
28672Is life, perception and understanding essential to matter, as such?
28672Is senseless matter perfectly wise, without consciousness?
28672May it not be true that you have thus borrowed your information, and falsely credited it to Nature?
28672Mr. Haeckel knows a great deal?
28672Mr. Huxley advises us to keep our mouths shut(?).
28672O, ye stars, what is the magnitude of an infidel''s credulity?
28672Or would such attributes allow him to remain in ignorance of his duties?
28672Very well; can you separate things and their properties?
28672WHAT DO EVOLUTIONISTS TEACH?
28672WHEN SHOULD CHILDREN BECOME CHURCH MEMBERS?
28672We Christians have no right to be heard?
28672Well, that is grand?
28672Well, there are some very weighty men in this world?
28672Well, well, has any man ever witnessed it?
28672Were there infinite atoms in mutual encounters, dashing and striking against each other?
28672What a grand harmony there is just here?
28672What are the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments but Hebrew productions?
28672What does it amount to?
28672What have we to gain by the adoption of this unknown factor in the vegetable and animal_ kingdoms_?
28672What is the cause of the character they ascribe to the Christ?
28672What is there which he can not believe?
28672What was the cause of the teachings of the apostles, whose sincerity was such that they died for their religion?
28672Where, gentlemen, O where will you place mind?
28672Which theory ascribes the more intelligence to God-- the Deist''s or the Christian''s?
28672Why is this?
28672Will it no more be said that--"Not a truth has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toiled and striven?"
28672Will not all our brethren speak out upon this subject?
28672Without antecedent life and mind being drawn upon?
28672Would an act of wisdom reveal to man the true object of worship?
28672Would wisdom and love tell him what is right?
28672You say inanimate Nature produced life and mind without the previous existence of either; can you duplicate that feat with your power?
28672_ Christian._ Are you certain of this?
28672_ Christian._ Are you sure that Nature ever gave the history of her origin, of her birth?
28672_ Question._ Were they the effects of an inadequate cause?
28672_ Reason._ Tell it vocally?
28672_ Wonderful advice!_ Do such men let religion alone?
28672do you read it in the book of Nature, or does she tell it vocally?
28672how was she qualified to do so?
28672is it also nothing?
28672will you do this so that I may read it too?
28669''But where,''say some,''is the king of America?'' 28669 ), were christened in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit(? 28669 ), were dedicated to God and his service by their parents(? 28669 And the teachers, do they live forever? 28669 And where are the mighty reptile tyrants of air, earth and water of the Oolite? 28669 And why do we believe that Virgil wrote the à � neid? 28669 And why is it that the Bible is not studied by the masses and regarded more? 28669 Are Christian rulers more tyrannical and their Christian subjects more ungovernable? 28669 Are poor Christians most insolent and disorderly? 28669 Are the rich more insolent_ when Christianized_? 28669 Are they generally known? 28669 Are you not now unable to give a reason for your premises? 28669 But what are sentinels when the power of Omnipotence is put forth? 28669 Can he mean that they are anonymous books? 28669 Can nature thus declare and not make known?
28669Can you give a reason for your present infidelity?
28669Do they fear him and trust in him?
28669Do they love and obey him?
28669Do you not now, as well as then, occupy unreasonable ground?
28669Does Christianity make worse parents and worse children?
28669Does a man''s ability in discerning and his truthfulness in reporting depend upon the skill or ignorance of those who hear?
28669Does he mean that they are not biographies-- books containing, in their historic matter, an account of the authors_ themselves_?
28669Does it make husbands and wives, friends and neighbors less trustworthy?
28669Does it not make men and women more virtuous and happy in every situation in life?
28669First: Who can measure the extent of natural possibilities?
28669Gentlemen atheists, am I correct in this conclusion?
28669Gentlemen, have you any reply?
28669Have you heard him speak?
28669Have you seen God?
28669Having rather conceded that atheists are fools, and turned_ deists_, are you really any better off?
28669How came it into the world?
28669How could men be persuaded that adultery should be punished when they were taught from infancy that it was a virtue among the gods?
28669How did you obtain this idea?
28669How do we judge and believe respecting the authorship of other ancient books?
28669How few people do, or will, understand that the terms of salvation are written as with the beams of the sun?
28669How is this?
28669How many Gideons are there among leading infidels whose soul- piety would resist such a temptation as that?
28669How many talk about religion who set aside a great portion of the word of God as worse than useless?
28669How was it with Christ?
28669How will you account for this?
28669If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did not write those books which bear their names, then are they false in fact?
28669If we had we could not be honest without being Christians?
28669Is it a greater thing to give life to a body once dead than to a body that never was alive?
28669Is it not the truth that fools are wiser in their own conceit than men who can give a reason?
28669Is the sun of righteousness low in your spiritual heavens?
28669Is the trouble a low degree of faith, approximating unbelief?
28669Is this a simple or compound idea?
28669It costs our author nothing but a stroke of his pen to invent the''Chordonia,''and whence did they come?
28669May it not be because they prefer all other business and pleasures before this?
28669Mr. Paine, did the God of the Bible approve of the Jewish royalty?
28669Now, gentlemen, is not this all that the imagination can do?
28669Or have you given him the uppermost seat in your affections?
28669Or when saw we thee sick and in prison, and came unto thee?
28669Reason timidly says:"Mr. C., in your very severe strictures on the deists, are you not condemning yourself?
28669Say, was Thomas Paine an infidel when he wrote that?
28669The fathers, where are they?
28669Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee; or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
28669There stands a clock; it keeps correct time, but does it declare the glory of any one?
28669They are these: If Christianity is not true, where did it come from?
28669They were made the special objects of God''s favor in their infancy(?
28669Was it because they had detected him as a cheat and an impostor?
28669Was it because they had discovered in the person of Christ an impostor, a mere cheat?
28669What do the priests do next?
28669What is its origin?
28669What is the religion of thousands?
28669What other person ever created such a concern about such an event?
28669What think you of Christ?
28669When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
28669When the popular sentiment was that he was a prophet the priests and scribes sought his life, believing that his death would end his cause?
28669When they and the people learned that he was an impostor(?)
28669When will you be ready to resume?
28669Who does not know that those books are and have been called the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
28669Whose son is he?
28669Why are skeptics and infidels so partial among ancient books?
28669Why are so many professors of religion negligent in this matter?
28669Why do we believe that CÃ ¦ sar wrote the Commentaries on the Gallic War?
28669Why this?
28669Will any sensible man affirm that they are the wrong names?
28669Will some wise one tell us why this strange inconsistency?
28669Will you oblige me?"
28669_ Christian_--And this is all the imagination can do?
28669_ Christian_--Gentlemen, do you think your present position is a scientific one?
28669_ Christian_--Gentlemen, have you not contraband goods in your warehouse?
28669_ It is not the office of a friend(?)
28669and if so, what did the authors die for?
28669this I am anxious to know; as you are"liberalists"and"free- thinkers,"you will be equally anxious to reach the truth in the premises?
28669vi: 15--"What part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
28678Do not accuse us of being murderers, because of our attempts to take the life of His Most Sacred Majesty? 28678 A REVELATION OF THAT WHICH WAS NECESSARY? 28678 And was man entirely unable to provide for his own natural wants? 28678 And who is to blame? 28678 Are the preachers of the United States a dangerous element in our land? 28678 Are these powers so many empty buckets, never filled and never to be filled? 28678 Are we to conclude that such men as Generals Hancock and Garfield, along with a great many more, had, and have, no religion to be disturbed? 28678 Are you thus lost without remedy? 28678 But the question comes up for an answer, From whence came the eggs? 28678 But what can we do? 28678 But what is conversion? 28678 But when you saw those bricks made were there not several men engaged in their manufacture, as well as horses? 28678 But why bring up inborn corruption and helplessness? 28678 Can you imagine the depth of infamy and pollution that is possible in this case? 28678 Can you run it into nothing? 28678 Could he create an earth to move upon? 28678 Could he create the air for breathing? 28678 Could man create his own light? 28678 Did the author of all things make a mistake here by conferring upon us a power that would be of no use? 28678 Did they do it? 28678 Did you ever see worlds made, and, if so, does our earth resemble them? 28678 Do any but infidels take that view of the subject? 28678 Do you ask, what of all this? 28678 Do you not know that you will receive, in the great day, according to that which you have done, whether it be good or bad? 28678 Do you not know this? 28678 Do you not see that you give me nothing to grapple with? 28678 Do you say he has a conscience? 28678 Do you say it is a work begun upon them and accomplished by them? 28678 Do you say it is because of their great wickedness? 28678 Do you say it is of no use? 28678 Do you say such would be a grand failure? 28678 Does not the system that God interposes in the conversion of the sinner rest upon the idea that the sinner is helpless in respect to his conversion? 28678 Does the Lord mock you with commandments that you can not obey? 28678 Does the blessed Father command you to do what you can not? 28678 Does the power of vision make light a necessity? 28678 Have men power to cross the chasm backwards, and are not able, at the same time to cross it in a forward movement? 28678 How is this? 28678 How is this? 28678 How is this? 28678 How much influence could such a man in our own country exert over the American mind? 28678 How shall we get them out? 28678 IS THE SINNER A MORAL AGENT IN HIS CONVERSION? 28678 If the trouble is in his corruption, through inborn depravity, why are_ some converted_ and_ others not_? 28678 If there is anything necessary to conversion that is not in the power of the sinner, why should he be commanded to convert? 28678 If this be so, why is it that so many are left in an unconverted state? 28678 In the midst of this conflict and medley of contradictions what are we to do? 28678 In what does wickedness consist? 28678 Is it because the good Spirit prefers the existence of iniquity and crime? 28678 Is it the neglect of that which is not in their power? 28678 Is not the Spirit of God able for any task which is in its own line of work? 28678 Is the development of man''s religious nature necessary in order to a full, perfect and harmonious growth? 28678 Is this beginning the work of God wrought upon the sinner by a special operation of the Holy Spirit? 28678 Is this out of your power? 28678 Is this the reason of your rejection of religion? 28678 Now, what say you? 28678 Or do you say that the Great Creator and wise and merciful Provider forgot to give a supply just here? 28678 Or is there a double portion of sacrifice, the sacrifice of principle and liberty, demanded at the hands of ministers of the Gospel of Christ? 28678 Or, who is so foolish as to want all faces cast into one mould? 28678 Reader, is all of this demanded by the elements of our nature? 28678 The question, What is matter? 28678 Then who is to blame? 28678 Then why not obey the Gospel and enjoy its promises? 28678 Then why should the sinner he blamed? 28678 There lies a brick, pick it up and examine its surface closely; do you, from it, reach the idea of its maker? 28678 To what? 28678 Turn from what? 28678 WHERE SHALL WE TAKE INFIDELS TO GET THEM OUT OF UNBELIEF? 28678 Was the condition of those fellows unavoidable? 28678 We do not venture to assert that there are no bad men in our ranks, but are yours entirely free from them? 28678 Were these and all such matters necessities? 28678 What is the object of all this pious policy? 28678 What is the trouble? 28678 What more? 28678 Who would paint every flower of the same hue? 28678 Who would trim all the trees of the forest into one and the same shape? 28678 Why did the Master not say,And I should_ convert_ and heal them?"
28678Why is it that he does not give us one general outpouring, one grand revival all over our country, and bring about the long prayed for millennial day?
28678Why is it that_ all men_ are not_ saved_?
28678Why should this be so?
28678Will you, Mr. Christian, grapple with this?
28678Will you?
28678Would a knowledge, by revelation, of the power, intelligence, wisdom and goodness of God be sufficient in the absence of anything more?
28678Would all the preachers in this country encourage such a work by speaking well of it?
28678Would it not be enough, in addition to what you have named, to have a knowledge of our relation to and dependence upon him for all we enjoy?
28678Would the simple idea of the existence of a first cause, or creator of all things, be sufficient?
28678Would they say, Go on?
28678You may reduce matter chemically to the invisible or underlying substance, but beyond this you can not cut?
28678_ Poor Jews!_ Could they help themselves?
28678_ Poor fellow!_ Is he thus doomed?
19321Then comes the question, Why do some live rather than others? 19321 Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
19321_ Now, is not this a most extraordinary situation? 19321 ( Quoted by W. H. Griffith Thomas in_What about Evolution?
19321And did those paws gradually become enlarged, till, after some generations, they were real wings?
19321And how could these organs serve their purpose while the complex instincts required for their functioning were only in course of development?
19321And was not that ancestor probably a wingless, though not a legless mammal?
19321And what becomes of the"ages"of speculative geology?
19321Are we to admit, in the face of all that has been said about the fixity of species( to mention only this), the reasonableness of such an assumption?
19321But do they?
19321But how could a spur be evolved in either sex?
19321But how did Cromwell, Lincoln, Bismarck arise?
19321But what are the facts?
19321But what are the facts?
19321But what happened in the meantime to those connecting links whose wings were but partly developed?
19321But when are the contents of a parent''s mind transmitted to the child?
19321Can anything be more cogent, more conclusive?
19321Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock?
19321Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?
19321Civilization[ tr note: sic] have risen, civilizations have perished: is there in this traceable the working of natural law?
19321Compare all that has been said by scientists themselves about the evolutionary theory, and what remains?
19321Did he attempt to spring into the air and seize a passing insect, and reach out his paws to catch it?
19321Do we find that scientists, though forced to surrender this prop, have given up atheistic evolution?
19321Does it account for the origin of the universe, of life, and of the various forms of life?
19321Does it conform to this scheme?
19321Does orderliness and plan argue for development?
19321For, indeed, what natural law can account for the rise of human institutions, so infinitely diversified in their structure?
19321Has religion so developed?
19321Have we not here a perfect case of what logicians call"reasoning in a circle,"or"begging the question?"
19321He asks, concerning the heavenly bodies:"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
19321How could they arise through natural selection( which is simply_ accident,_ of course), at all?
19321How could they have been produced by evolution?
19321How have they come to be what they are?
19321How then explain the origin and rise of religion?
19321If a special fiat was necessary at this point, why may it not have been at others?
19321In a recent book,_"Creation or Evolution?
19321Is it able to account for those things which it is set forth by its spokesmen to account for?
19321Is it not clear that the same result can not be produced by causes so dissimilar?
19321Is there a demonstrable development, by inherent forces, of human society, from lower to higher ranges of culture?
19321It is an attempt to answer the old question, suggested to the thinking mind by a contemplation of nature:_ Whence_ these things?
19321It is not extremely likely, assuming the development theory to be true, that both the mole and the bat sprang from a common ancestor?
19321Now, how came the bat to acquire his wings?
19321Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
19321The question arises: Can such characteristics be transmitted?
19321The question suggests itself, do scientists to- day believe as Darwin did?
19321The questions insistently call for an answer: How could these instincts preserve the animal when they were still in an incipient, undeveloped state?
19321The real question is, What is the nature and the cause of the prevailing order?
19321We now turn to the geologist and ask: How do you determine the age of the strata?
19321We repeat it,--is not this a very, very extraordinary situation?
19321We shall try to answer the question: Is the evolutionary theory entitled to the name of a working hypothesis?
19321What force produced them?
19321What is that?
19321What made this one country boy the most astonishing genius in all the history of literature?
19321What reason has a Christian to surrender his faith on account of the contradiction of scientists?
19321What, in view of this situation, becomes of the evolutionist''s argument from fossils?
19321What, then, is the verdict of history?
19321What, then, remains of the theory?
19321Whence did they evolve?
19321Whence do all things come?
19321Whence is force?
19321Where is one single fact?"
19321Why did they appear in the best place and nowhere else?
19321Yet when is a girl born with ears and nose already pierced?
19321_ Whence the backbone?_ All animals are divided into vertebrates and invertebrates, the animals with a backbone and animals without.
19321_ Whence the breast?_ Vertebrates are either mammals or submammals.
19321_"What is Physical Life?
19321how can he help you?
19321note: sic] Constantine the Great, Luther, Napoleon I, and Bismarck?
19321note: sic] regarding these?
19321what do you mean by trusting?
15807Are we, then, slaves of ignorant circumstance? 15807 And when for many days and nights neither sun nor stars appear, how can he tell where he is, which way he drives, where the land lies? 15807 Are there proofs that God''s forces are cooperating with ours? 15807 Beyond these are there vibrations for thought- transference? 15807 But does it work down and up? 15807 But how can these mountains be gotten to the distant cities by the sea? 15807 But how do we get the cars back? 15807 But how does it build itself? 15807 But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away? 15807 But how shall we find them? 15807 But outside of our plans and work for ourselves what cooperation may we expect in our plans and work for others? 15807 But what does the sea do with the harder parts of the cliff? 15807 But what is it doing? 15807 But what is the thousand million times more light than ever struck the earth doing in space? 15807 But what is there in space? 15807 But when we have done our best what may we expect? 15807 But who can lift up the end of the river? 15807 Can it be gotten to take Pittsburgh coal to New Orleans? 15807 Can we so enormously enhance the value of a bushel of charcoal by arrangement and compression? 15807 Did any one ever know of gravitation raising anything? 15807 Do the stars, that are so far away and seem so small, send us any help? 15807 Does he want his burdens carried? 15807 Does he want swiftness? 15807 Does it not take us one step toward an apprehension of the revealed condition of spirit? 15807 Does not this seem like a spiritual force? 15807 Does one fear the change from gross to fine, from force of freezing to the winged energy of steam, from solid zinc to lightning? 15807 Does one fear to leave bodily appetites and passions for spiritual aptitudes fitted to finer surroundings? 15807 Faith in what power can say to these mountains,Be thou removed far hence, and cast into the sea?"
15807First, it is a power of selection-- might we not say discrimination?
15807Has he?
15807Has man a right to expect a special lending of the infinite power to help out his human endeavors?
15807How can it be secured?
15807How can man combat part of the continent on the move, driven by the ceaseless powers of the air?
15807How can they get it down to the cities where it is needed?
15807How can we separate them, so that the salt shall be pure for our tables?
15807How could it be otherwise?
15807How could they be lifted, handled, and put in place over the water on slender piers?
15807How could they get the water out?
15807How did they ever get together?
15807How do the particles behave as they snuggle up closer to each other?
15807How do they get the salt and water apart?
15807How is it to be done?
15807How much is the pull?
15807How shall it be done?
15807How shall they get it to the top of the ground?
15807How shall we detect these steady currents when wind and waves are in tumultuous confusion?
15807How shall we get it out?
15807How shall we secure the cooperative power?
15807How strong is this gas?
15807How was it done?
15807How was it done?
15807How were they made?
15807How will this divine aid manifest itself?
15807Husbands and fathers are ever crying: Immortal?
15807If this is so, in what fields, under what conditions, to what extent, and in accordance with what laws may we expect aid?
15807In that sudden, strange transition, By what new and finer sense Shall we grasp the mighty vision, And receive the influence?
15807Is he steering by the North Star?
15807Is it not a part of the"all things"over which man was made to have dominion?
15807Is not our whole question settled?
15807It is pleasant sliding down hill on a rail, but who pulls the sled back?
15807Meanwhile, what of the weather?
15807My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?"
15807Nay, more, what can be expected of men who have in these temptations been strengthened out of God?
15807Nay, rather, what may not be expected of such men?
15807Now does this intelligent and powerful personality know our plans and lend his powers to the accomplishment of our purposes?
15807Now, how has such an eminence of character been attained?
15807Power enough, but how shall we belt on?
15807Since these things are so, what are the conditions under which we may work the works of God by his power?
15807So fifty yards of woolen cloth just out of the dye vat-- who could wring it?
15807So our question is better thus: Does this intelligent, powerful personality accept and use our energy in the accomplishment of his plans?
15807The porter''s rap came unexpectedly soon, and in response to the question,"What is the weather?"
15807To what extent may we expect divine aid?
15807To what extent, then, may we expect God will lend his forces to work out our plans?
15807WHAT ARE THE CAUSES?
15807Was the storm over?
15807We shall soon see that it is easy to slide millions of tons of coal down hill, but how could we slide freight up from New York to Albany?
15807What becomes of it?
15807What becomes of this comminuted rock, cleft by wedges of water, scoured over by hundreds of tons of sharp sand?
15807What can be expected of men who have been tried in the furnace of temptation till they are pure gold?
15807What change has come to iron when it has been made red or white hot?
15807What could be expected of the men of''76 when the air was electric with patriotism?
15807What facts of its conditions and powers can be known?
15807What feet have we for undiscovered continents, what wings for wider and finer airs, what eyes for diviner light?
15807What force is sufficient for moving such great mountains so far?
15807What fore- gleams have we of the future life?
15807What is being done worthy of the copartnership?
15807What is light doing in space?
15807What is the highest force?
15807What is the power that can throw a stream of water two by six feet over the tops of the highest skyscrapers of Chicago?
15807What is there after that?
15807What were a wooden body worth?
15807What will not the more facile ether do?
15807Where is your heaven anyhow?"
15807Where?
15807Who can direct them?
15807Who could work the handle?
15807Who could work the other end of the pump handle?
15807Who doubts of such as she?
15807Who has not received a letter and knew before opening it that it had violets within?
15807Who knoweth?
15807Who knows how frequently they come?
15807Why hesitate for a third mode of life?
15807Why is there such a difference in value?
15807Why not use the moon for more than a lantern?
15807Will God indeed dwell upon the earth?
15807Will God indeed work with man on the earth?
15807Would it be any less glorious if there were no Popocatepetl?
15807You want to ascend these mountains?
15807[ 2] What must the distance be in steam?
15807what could he do but see the poor wheat die of thirst and his poor wife and children die of hunger?
15807what the greater distance in the more extreme rarefactions?
505How came the diversity of language?
505Were beasts of prey and venomous animals created before, or after, the fall of Adam? 505 What aroused the vengeance of Jehovah or of Allah to work these miracles of desolation?"
505Whence these pillars of salt?
505Which was the first language?
505Why did the Creator not say,''Be fruitful and multiply,''to plants as well as to animals? 505 Why is this region thus blasted?"
505Why were only beasts and birds brought before Adam to be named, and not fishes and marine animals?
505( Domine quo vadis?
505Among the foremost of these questions were three:"Whence came language?"
505Among the many questions he then raised and discussed may be mentioned such as these:"What caused the creation of the stars on the fourth day?"
505And again, in an agony of supplication, he cries out:"Do we see the sword blazing over us?
505And for what were the youth of Oxford led into such bottomless depths of disbelief as to any real existence of truth or any real foundation for it?
505As we discussed one after another of the candidates, he suddenly said:"Who is to be your Professor of Moral Philosophy?
505But DID he ever do it?
505But verses quite as good appeared on the other side, one of them being as follows:"Is this, then, the great Colenso, Who all the bishops offends so?
505For the account of the Dead Sea serpent"Tyrus,"etc., see La Grande Voyage de Hierusalem, Paris( 1517?
505He also asked,"If the primeval language existed even up to the time of Moses, whence came the Egyptian language?"
505He says:"My heart answered in the words of the prophet,''Shall a man speak lies in the name of the Lord?''
505He then asks,"Why should our age be so completely destitute of them?"
505How can they have been redeemed by the Saviour?"
505How can they trace back their origin to Noah''s ark?
505How can we determine which of these opposite statements is the very truth till we know what motion is?
505If it be urged that birds could reach America by flying and fishes by swimming, he asks,"What of the beasts which neither fly nor swim?"
505If there are other planets, since God makes nothing in vain, they must be inhabited; but how can their inhabitants be descended from Adam?
505In a medieval text- book, giving science the form of a dialogue, occur the following question and answer:"Why is the sun so red in the evening?"
505Let it put us upon crying to God, that the judgment be diverted and not return upon us again so speedily.... Doth God threaten our very heavens?
505Might not the Almighty himself be willing to employ the malice of these powers of the air against those who had offended him?
505New epoch in chemistry begun by Boyle Attitude of the mob toward science Effect on science of the reaction following the French Revolution:{?}
505On the first page of the introduction the author, after stating the two theories, asks,"Which is right?"
505On the other hand, what had science done for religion?
505On the other hand, what was gained by the warriors of science for religion?
505St. Chrysostom says:"What can be more unreasonable than to sow without land, without rain, without ploughs?
505The Dominican Father Caccini preached a sermon from the text,"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"
505The belief was strongly held that the writers of the Bible were merely pens in the hand of God( Dei calami.{;?}
505This being the case, who could care to waste time on the study of material things and give thought to the structure of the world?
505W. E. Adams, article in the Lutheran Quarterly, April, 1879, on Evolution: Shall it be Atheistic?
505What are comets?
505What do they indicate?
505What have we to do with their significance?
505What matters it that the inculcation of high duty in the childhood of the world is embodied in such quaint stories as those of Jonah and Balaam?
505What was his influence on religion?
505Which is more consistent with a great religion, the cosmography of Cosmas or that of Isaac Newton?
505Which presents a nobler field for religious thought, the diatribes of Lactantius or the calm statements of Humboldt?
505Who does not see that great confusion would result from this motion?"
505Who woulde likewise say that they have carried Tygers and Lyons?
505Why study the old heavens and the old earth, when they were so soon to be replaced with something infinitely better?
505Why, indeed, give a thought to it?
505Why, then, should it be studied?
505and who would wish to plant colonies of such creatures in new, desirable lands?"
505and, thirdly,"DOES THAT STATUE STILL EXIST?"
505or"Whence these blocks of granite?"
505secondly,"WHERE was she thus transformed?"
505that the crops and trees grow downward?...
505that the rains and snow and hail fall upward toward the earth?...
505what have you done with the Son of God?"
505who would trust himself with them?
505why do you stop and hold back, when you know that your strength is lost on Christ?
28248Are not two sparrows,he said,"sold for a farthing?
28248If there_ were_ any, why have we never seen bones of sea dogs, sharks, and whales?!!!
28248Shall he that coutendeth with the Almighty instruct him? 28248 Were the words that Moses wrote,"he asks,"merely impressed upon his mind?
28248What limitation,he asks,"can we assign to such a phrase as this:--''all the high hills that were UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVENS were covered?''
28248And how now, and with what effect, does the argument apply?
28248And how, I ask, was this error ultimately corrected?
28248And how, in this case, does geology deal with his premises?
28248And if Brydone or the Canon were thus mistaken in their calculations, why may not the modern geologists be also mistaken in theirs?
28248And now, what has Satan to say?
28248And the question once fairly stated, what, I ask, is the reply?
28248As for the seeming shells of the less superficial deposits,"Are we sure,"he inquired,"that the soil of the earth can not produce fossils?"
28248But has the course of progress come, in consequence, to a close?
28248But have you ascertained on what the sand rests?
28248But how are such facts reconcileable with the hypothesis of a universal deluge?
28248But how breaks on the baffled Tempter the sublime revelation?
28248But how deal, I next ask, with the theologian who holds that geologic fact has been revealed to him?
28248But if it had retreated from the Chilian shore, how could it have risen on the Indian one?
28248But ought"we not to recollect,"he asked,"the numberless bands of pilgrims who carried their money to the Holy Land, and brought back shells?
28248But through what, let us ask, has it been cut?
28248But what, it has been asked, was a brief period of three thousand years, compared with the geologic ages?
28248But why, it may be asked, by vision?
28248But, is this all?
28248By what, or through whom, did these races of nicely organized plants and animals begin to be?
28248CALAMITE?
28248CONIFERS?]
28248Calamite?
28248Can the presumption be yet further strengthened by showing that this visual mode or form was preferable to any other?
28248Conifers?
28248Did he hold the pen, and another dictate?
28248Does it not seem probable that the alternating beds in all their conditions would be given us by such a process?
28248FERN?
28248Fern?
28248Have you not seen the labors of the silkworm?
28248In what light, or on what principle, shall we most correctly read the prophetic drama of creation?
28248In what shall we find the surest interpretation of the revealed_ prophecies_ that referred to events_ anterior_ to his time?
28248In what state is this our sire?
28248Is there to be merely a repetition of the past?--an introduction a second time of man made in the image of God?
28248Knowest thou the ordinances of Heaven?
28248LYCOPODITE?
28248Lycopodite?
28248Need we name that event?
28248Now, however, the time for any such argument has gone by; the American coal fields have been carefully explored; and what is the result?
28248Now, what living tree thus lopsided could support such a weight in such a direction?
28248O Lord God, what are we upon whome thowe shuldest shewe this great mercye?
28248Or did he see in vision the scenes that he describes?
28248The establishment and exhibition of that harmony was a task to which is it too much to say that there was no man living so competent as he?
28248Were there not, however, real shells of the Syrian type in France and Italy?
28248What is to be the next advance?
28248What, in such circumstances, would be the aspect of the scene, optically exhibited from some point in space elevated a few hundred yards over the sea?
28248What, in that early age, would have been the effect of the argument of Hume?
28248What, then, is the scheme of reconciliation which I would venture to propound?
28248Who shall declare what, throughout those long ages, the history of creation has been?
28248Will you pardon me the liberty I take in dedicating it to you?
28248Yet what can even their sorrow be to that of the relatives of the departed?
28248and does not nature indicate their true position by the position which she assigns to them in the geologic scale?
28248master, what manner of great beasts are these?"
28248or canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"
28248or how could any such argument be founded on a basis so little extended?
28248or was it preferable to think that the sea of Joppa and Sidon had covered Burgundy and Milanais?"
16474How do you know that the Lord doeth it?
16474What made the Mahommedan world? 16474 )[ 24] There is also a good deal said about a very questionable blind man-- one Albricus( Alberich?) 16474 And now, what is the ultimate fate, and what the origin, of the matter of life? 16474 And what is historical truth but that of which the evidence bears strict scientific investigation? 16474 And what is the dire necessity andiron"law under which men groan?
16474And what is the state of things we find disclosed?
16474And what made the Christian world?
16474And, finally, how is this account to be reconciled with those in the first and third gospels-- which, as we have seen, disagree with one another?
16474And,_ a fortiori_, between all four?
16474Are there then any Christians who say that they know nothing about the unseen world and the future?
16474Are we going back to the days of the Judges, when wealthy Micah set up his private ephod, teraphim, and Levite?]
16474Are we to accept the Jesus of the second, or the Jesus of the fourth Gospel, as the true Jesus?
16474But if the primitive Nazarenes of whom the Acts speaks were orthodox Jews, what sort of probability can there be that Jesus was anything else?
16474But if what lies below the horse''s"knee"thus corresponds to the middle finger in ourselves, what has become of the four other fingers or digits?
16474But to how much does this so- called claim amount?
16474But what conceivable motive could"Mark"have for omitting it?
16474But what has Comtism to do with the"New Philosophy,"as the Archbishop, defines it in the following passage?
16474But what is all we really know, and can know, about the latter phà ¦ nomena?
16474But why should a man be expected to call himself a"miscreant"or an"infidel"?
16474By whose authority is the signification of that term defined?
16474Can it, therefore, be said that chemical analysis teaches nothing about the chemical composition of calc- spar?
16474Cosmas and Damianus?
16474Did he think it, at any subsequent time, worth while"To confer with flesh and blood,"or, in modern phrase, to re- examine the facts for himself?
16474Did things so happen or did they not?
16474Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind''s throwing?
16474For what is the adverse case?
16474For, after all, what do we know of this terrible"matter,"except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness?
16474Goethe has condensed a survey of all powers of mankind into the well- known epigram:--"Warum treibt sich das Volk so und schreit?
16474How can he have founded the universal religion which was not heard of till twenty years after his death?
16474I rejoice to think now of the( then) Bishop''s cordial hail the first time we met after our little skirmish,"Well, is it to be peace or war?"
16474If God not walk in the Garden of Eden, how we be assured that he spoke from Sinai?
16474If it is not historically true that such and such things happened in Palestine eighteen centuries ago, what becomes of Christianity?
16474If the latter is to be accepted, or rejected, by private judgment, why not the former?
16474If the story of the Fall is not the true record or an historical occurrence, what becomes of Pauline theology?
16474If, he says, there are texts which seem to show that Jesus contemplated the evangelisation of the heathen:... Did not the Apostles hear our Lord?
16474Is any such unity predicable of their forms?
16474Is he the kindly, peaceful Christ depicted in the Catacombs?
16474Is it both; or is it neither?
16474Is it built up of ordinary matter, and again resolved into ordinary matter when its work is done?
16474Is it not certain that the Apostles did not gather this truth from His teaching?
16474Is it that contained in the Nicene and the Athanasian Creeds?
16474Is this a plant; or is it an animal?
16474Melanchthon, Ulrich von Hutten, Beza, were they not all humanists?
16474Much astonished at this remark from a person was supposed not to have seen the relics, Eginhard asked him how he knew that?
16474Now what is a Christian?
16474On what grounds can a reasonable man be asked to believe any more?
16474Or can he be rightly represented by the bleeding ascetic, broken down by physical pain, of too many medià ¦ val pictures?
16474Or, is the matter of life composed of ordinary matter, differing from it only in the manner in which its atoms are aggregated?
16474So, if I am asked to call myself an"infidel,"I reply: To what doctrine do you ask me to be faithful?
16474To this the priest,"Whence art thou, then, if these are not thy parents?"
16474Under these circumstances it may well be asked, how is one mass of non- nucleated protoplasm to be distinguished from another?
16474Was Augustine heretical when he denied the actual historical truth of the record of the Creation?
16474Was not the arch- humanist, Erasmus, fautor- in- chief of the Reformation, until he got frightened and basely deserted it?
16474Was not the name of"Christian"first used to denote the converts to the doctrine promulgated by Paul and Barnabas at Antioch?
16474Was not their chief,"James, the brother of the Lord,"reverenced alike by Sadducee, Pharisee, and Nazarene?
16474Were Gentile converts bound to obey the Law or not?
16474What better philosophical status has"vitality"than"aquosity"?
16474What do we find when the accounts of the events in question, contained in the three Synoptic gospels, are compared together?
16474What has become of the bones of all these animals?
16474What more intrinsic claim has the story of the Exodus than of the Deluge, to belief?
16474What we desire to know is, is it a fact that evolution took place?
16474What, truly, can seem to be more obviously different from one another, in faculty, in form, and in substance, than the various kinds of living beings?
16474Who is to gainsay our ecclesiastical authority here?
16474Who shall or can forbid him?
16474Why forget the angel who wrestled with Jacob, and, as the account suggests, somewhat over- stepped the bound of fair play, at the end of the struggle?
16474Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing?
16474[ 26] Must we suppose, therefore, that the Apostle to the Gentiles has stated that which is false?
16474_ Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?_ No.
16474and what was_ their_ impression from what they heard?
16474or was he ready to accept anything that fitted in with his preconceived ideas?
16474why call one"plant"and the other"animal"?
28668And after that?
28668And after that?
28668Perfectly indifferent whether or not we observe such a process now?
28668Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 28668 Where will it go last of all?
28668(_ Memory enters._)_ Christian_--Mr. Memory, are you an Atheist, and did you give Reason the idea of a God?
28668According to the plastic theory recently advanced(?)
28668And also what there was to cool it, when it was all there was, and it was red hot, and always had been?
28668And if my spirit be the highest intelligence in the universe, did it create itself?
28668And thy own God- like spirit; is not that a revelation?"
28668And why did it begin to cool just when it did?
28668Are they found in the teachings of philosophy?
28668Are they gathered from observation?
28668Are we under no obligations to men on account of scientific discoveries, just because the truths discovered are eternal truths?
28668As for the mistakes made in religion since the days of the apostles of the Christ, they are many; but what have they to do with the_ genuine_?
28668But how can red hot cool when all there is, is red hot?
28668But life is simply a"mode,"or"degree of motion?"
28668But what correllated the force?
28668But what correllates that force?
28668But where shall we go for those principles of action?
28668But, I ask in all candor, is eternally true and sufficiently revealed_ one_ and the_ same_?
28668Can any man conceive of such a being?
28668Can intelligences be piled one upon another, like brick and mortar, and thus be compounded?
28668Can reason alone discover them?
28668Can they do it?
28668Can thunder, repeated daily through centuries, make God''s laws and his wisdom and goodness more God- like?
28668Can we trifle with death when it comes?
28668Can you believe this?
28668Can you get more out of a thing than there is in it?
28668DO WE NEED THE BIBLE?
28668Did it become sensible and resolve to cool off a little, and settle itself into orderly worlds?
28668Did it create the universe?
28668Did it divide, and a part go to each planet?
28668Did the dead atoms dance about and jumble themselves together as we now find them?
28668Did you bring it into the world with you?
28668Do we not_ need_"revelation?"
28668Do you deny the existence of such wants?
28668Do you say it was dead atoms, or matter without life?
28668Do you unceremoniously reject the Gospel of the Christ?
28668Does it explain the evidence of design which is presented in pairing off male and female in the same form of life?
28668Does it govern it?
28668Does it govern itself?
28668Does not our world need Revelation to make known the true aim and end of our being?"
28668Does the God who loves us sympathize with us in our woes?
28668Eye, do n''t be in a hurry; just let me ask, do Free Thinkers get scared and refuse to think?
28668Had this first mist, to say nothing of organic life, a mind?
28668Has any man the right to pervert language, fixing new meanings to words in common use which are in direct opposition to established usage?
28668Has each planet a great"soul of the world,"as well as our earth?
28668Has he not answered this agonizing inquiry?
28668Have you any more questions?
28668He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he be not correct?
28668He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
28668He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
28668He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?"
28668How does a germ come to life?
28668How many mistakes have scientists made in the same period of time?
28668How natural it is, when reminded of our loss, to exclaim, Shall we not meet them again?
28668If it was not vitality what was it?
28668If man is simply a material organism, why this contrast?
28668If man, as it avows, be the highest intelligence in the universe of worlds, to whom will he render an account?
28668If men and women are simply developments of God, will God be offended with himself?
28668If one man is above the weakness of fearing God(?)
28668If we were at once deprived of all knowledge of God where would we find hopes for support in the gloomy hours of adversity?
28668If you did, how did you get it?
28668In other words, how could an eternal red hot cool down without something else in existence to cool it?
28668Is cause and effect the same?
28668Is it blind conjecture that there is an existence beyond the shadows?
28668Is it possible that life and death walk"arm- in- arm?"
28668Is not life organization with feeling?
28668Is not this definition very easy-- very common?
28668Is the one substance theory correct?
28668Is there a God?
28668Is there no life to come?
28668Is this parting to last forever?
28668It is a statement said to be made by Baron Liebig; it is this:"Geological investigations have established the fact of a beginning of life(?)
28668May we not contrast them?
28668No comforter to arrest the current of mourning and lamentation?
28668No great resurrection?
28668Perception?
28668SUBSTANCE OR SUBSTANCES-- WHICH?
28668Shall the scenes of Paris and Lyons be repeated, re- enacted in our own beloved America?
28668Shall we search for them in nature?
28668Shall we trifle with the will of God till then?
28668The Christian religion is so fearfully demoralizing(?)
28668The question, now, comes home to us with all its force, how did fishes of this high order come to exist before any of the inferior class?
28668Then those who have investigated the subject are almost universally_ Atheists_?"
28668Then what correllated the force?
28668There is an hour when we_ ourselves_ must die?
28668Very well, let us have it that way; then we must be allowed to ask, how an eternal red hot mist cooled off?
28668What became of its mind?
28668What right, says the Pantheist, the Atheist, the Deist, and Spiritualist, have you to command me?
28668What shall we say of the hopes and prospects of bereaved souls?
28668What variety of mental conditions have we not experienced?
28668Whence came the idea?
28668Where is the shadow, and where is the sunshine?
28668Who can be happy in such a condition?
28668Who will call upon him to answer?
28668Who, then, could and did reach them and give them to us?
28668Why say aloud,''I know,''while you say to yourself,''I know not?''"
28668Why say it is not true against the testimony of your own conscience?
28668Why say with your lips,"I am above fear,"while away down in your heart you know it to be a lie?
28668Why should it cool at all?
28668Will they do it?
28668_ Atheist_--You, Mr. C., are approaching from a singular yet a pleasing stand- point; will you please give me your analysis?
28668_ Christian_--Did you present the idea of the existence of God to your brother Judgment, and if so, where and how did you come by it?
28668_ Christian_--Then, we are to consider the powers of the mind as so many men, and hear their testimony?
28668_ Christian_--Why?
28668_ Christian_--Will you allow me to state my analysis of the mind and ask you if it is correct?
28668_ Christian_--Will you ask them which one gave it to your brother Perception?
28668_ Christian_--Will you call Memory, that I may learn where and how he obtained the idea?
28668_ Christian_--Will you examine the witnesses?
28668_ Christian_--Yes, one more at least; I wish_ now_ to know how your brother Perception obtained the idea of a God-- will you tell me, or call him?
28668_ Judgment_--"Did I bring the idea into the world with me, or create it?"
28668_ We have no innate ideas.__ Christian_--Then where did you get the material from which you made your decision that there is no God?
28668tell me,"cried the dying man,"where will it go last of all?"
28668why hast thou forsaken me?''"
26278But,said the man,"where are the Egyptians?"
26278Science has certainly made some advancement, but where is the warrant for the boastingof sciolists of modern times?
26278Whither are we tending?
26278Who can tell?
26278***** What is the difference between getting more out of a thing than there is in it and creating something out of nothing?
26278*****"If the religious foundations and sanctions of morality are to be given up, what is to be substituted for them?"
26278--_Origin of Species, p. 100._ How are we to reconcile the conflicting ideas in this speculation?
26278264, 266, 413._ Do the facts sustain this assumption?
26278Are millions of years adequate as a cause, when associated with all the forces known in nature, to produce new species and extirpate old ones?
26278Are there no spiritual wants consequent upon the nature of mind?
26278BLIND FORCE OR INTELLIGENCE, WHICH?
26278But how was it?
26278By what other means do we distinguish between the rational and the insane?
26278Can I comprehended the infinite?
26278Can you get more out of a thing than there is in it?
26278Can you see across?
26278Could they think more freely?
26278Do we attribute all the mercies of physical life to a supreme intelligence?
26278Do we comprehend all that belongs to the physical sciences?
26278Do we comprehend matter?
26278Do you doubt this?
26278Do you say I am lost in God?
26278Do you say matter is infinite?
26278Do you see?
26278Do you use the old cry that all outside of matter belongs to the"unknown"and"unknowable?"
26278Does matter pass out of being with death?
26278Does this pass out of being with death?
26278Errors are found in all the histories of humanity; shall we therefore discard science and civil government?
26278Has he ever given it a name?
26278Has science no prerogatives above the physical?
26278Has such a revelation been made?
26278Have men made no mistakes in science?
26278How could this be made?
26278How do unbelievers manage such objections to the hypothesis that chemical laws explain everything in vegetable life?
26278How does this look by the side of the last quotation from Darwin?
26278How is all this accounted for?
26278How is it now?
26278How is this?
26278How much must I know?
26278How often do we hear men say,"Science is progressive?"
26278I know that I know, but do I comprehend that knowledge?
26278Is it a blind force that anticipates growth in the plant, and lays away food, in the tissues, for future use?
26278Is it necessary to the greatest good of the greatest number?
26278Is it not a dangerous thing to make God a liar?
26278Is it not a great insult?
26278Is it not strange that dying men will reject the motive of life?
26278Is it reasonable to allow that this revelation could be given by the spirit of God through holy men?
26278Is there a place in man''s physical nature for bread and meat, for food of every variety that man''s soul desires?
26278Is there an end in view that has governed in the great question of evolution of species, and the survival of the fittest?
26278Is there any agreement among unbelievers which would serve as a model for us poor souls to imitate?
26278Is there certain knowledge of missing links?
26278Is there life without antecedent life, etc.?
26278Is there no evidence of design here?
26278Is there no liability to mental suffering?
26278Is there not one species having its likeness represented by a species in the distant past?
26278Is there such a thing as jurisprudence?
26278Is there such a thing as morality carried into public relations?
26278Is this true?
26278It was a wonderful gain?
26278Lost(?)
26278May we not estimate civil government and religion both by the blood they have cost?
26278No service to whom?
26278Or, if you prefer it, what is the architect?
26278Reader,"how readest thou?"
26278SHALL WE ABANDON OUR RELIGION?
26278Shall we condemn Christianity on account of man''s failures?
26278Shall we discourage his honest efforts by keeping those failures always before him?
26278Shall we keep his many deviations from truth and principle before him in order to cause greater deviations?
26278Shall we on this account condemn all that in which man has and does progress?
26278Shall we repudiate on account of mistakes?
26278That is, in his philosophy, the"vital force is produced by the organism,"and the"organism is produced by the vital principle?"
26278The question is often asked,"Why were they not continued throughout the Christian dispensation?"
26278The question was asked,"Where are the Israelites?"
26278Then why the opposition?
26278There is nothing speculative(?)
26278They have been very true(?)
26278This orator asks the questions,"Whence came we?"
26278Those empty vessels of ours, hearts"endowed with inexhaustible hope,"must turn away from the grave(?)
26278To what end?
26278Was it blind force or intelligence, which?
26278Was it reasonable to expect a revelation from God?
26278We should ask no questions(?)
26278Well, how is it with the past?
26278Well, is there any better agreement among politicians, or in civil governments?
26278Were the people without a religious nature?
26278Were they both evolved from the same unit?
26278Were they in any sense better off?
26278What becomes of evolution?
26278What becomes of natural selection?
26278What becomes of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest?
26278What does Darwin know about the origin of life and mind?
26278What has unbelief to give to the people of our age more than it offered centuries ago?
26278What is the estimate placed upon it by the best minds of America?
26278What is the value of the religion of Christ?
26278What kind of a being must I be to know that"no message ever reached man from beyond the grave?"
26278What natural law is violated in"Partheno Genesis?"
26278What power is that which lies behind chemical affinities, and controls them with direct reference to organic being?
26278What will become of yon dry leaf, torn from its parent stem by this wintry blast?
26278When you ask an evolutionist for the links connecting new and old species, as he is pleased to denominate them, you receive the satisfactory(?)
26278Whence came we?
26278Where have last summer''s roses gone?
26278Where is the difficulty?
26278Where is the justice and goodness of God in the bloody wars of Israel?
26278Where is the morality and righteousness of the wars of which we read?
26278Where is the righteousness of capital punishment?
26278Where shall we find them?
26278Whither are we tending?
26278Who is the architect?
26278Who will"deliver"the unbelievers of our country"from this dead body?"
26278Why affirm the eternity of matter and deny the eternity of spirit?
26278Why do men strenuously avoid contradictory propositions?
26278Why not find a few of the missing links there?
26278Why should it be different with the young plant?
26278Why should it perish with it?
26278Why?
26278Why?
26278Will some bold unbeliever answer?
26278Will you accept it and experience the fact?
26278Will you dethrone the Creator?
26278or shall we turn misanthropists?
26278who can tell?
20248I wonder,mused the Martian,"did the grim spectre of death finally instill a grain of scepticism into his mind?"
20248Again Jerome Davis asks,"Is it possible that our Church leaders are to some extent blinded by current conventional standards?
20248Again, if witchcraft is given up, why not the chief witch of the Bible, the Devil?
20248Aloud he muses,"Is there no place on Earth which is free from this contradiction?"
20248And how well he must have rewarded his faithful servants, for was this not done in His name?
20248And then all Gods laughed and shook on their chairs and cried:"Is Godliness not just that there are Gods, but no God?"
20248And, behold, they cried out, saying,''What have we to do with thee, Jesus, Son of God?
20248Are not the wants of his family, the hunger, and ostracism torture?
20248Are they so busy sharing the wealth of the prosperous with others in spiritual quests that they fail to see some areas of desperate social need?
20248Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?''
20248Brahmanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Hebrewism, Mohammedanism, Christianity-- which is the true religion?
20248But actually who created this creator?
20248But does the Mohammedan or the Christian analyze as critically each his own belief?
20248But if the wife is displeased, is there any justice?
20248But what effectual check has Christianity contributed?
20248But, is the modern worshipper who is contemptuous of the ancients very different from them?
20248By what process of thought had Mohammed come to exalt Allah not merely above all Arabian gods, but above the gods of all times?
20248Can anything stronger be said to discourage research, investigation, experiment, and retard progress?
20248Did the clergymen stand firm when men with dollars talked?
20248Divine Justice?
20248Do certain diseases as yet remain to plague man?
20248Do certain diseases still baffle the physician?
20248Do they to some degree unconsciously exchange the gift of prophecy for yearly budgets and business boards?"
20248Does any one believe that Jew, Mohammedan, Catholic, and Protestant can long live in peace together?
20248Does not this apologist confuse his god with his devil?
20248For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with regard to his own rational capacities?
20248Furthermore, why was he so certain of his own intimate association with Allah?
20248Good God-- surely in the face of all this sense of aliveness and motion, and this and that, there should be some intimation of WHY?
20248Has man profited by having remained in his mental infancy so long?
20248Has not his mind so co-*ordinated his movements that he has enslaved those forces of nature to be his aid?
20248How can we attribute these qualities to a being who is described to us as devoid of any nerve structure?
20248How can we know the actual number of earthlings that are sceptics?
20248How much longer before humanity can begin to build on a sound foundation?
20248How, then, could an omnipotent being permit wholesale and private murder?
20248However, the Martian argues,"Is it not a fact that in your earthly experience, you have created your gods in your own image?
20248If everything must have a cause, then the First Cause must be caused and therefore: Who made God?
20248If faith is vital to man, why not relate it to that which at least holds a promise of solution?
20248If men were possessed of devils in Jesus''time, what has happened to these devils now?
20248If the God of these earthlings bothers not about them, why should they trouble about God?
20248If the grocer, the butcher, the doctor, the lawyer, the scholar, the business man, were to boldly announce his scepticism, what would happen to him?
20248If this be God''s word, did God err when He said it?
20248In how many of the advanced ideas of our time has the Church taken the lead?
20248In this series of complications where may we discern a first cause?
20248Is He not rather a demon than a God?
20248Is anything so pitiful to behold as the firm grasp that the Church places on the mind of the youngest of children?
20248Is it necessary that you should salt your truth that it will no longer quench thirst_?
20248Is it not a fact that if the Christian nations of the world would only live at peace together, war would be impossible?
20248Is it not renowned for being a long way in the rear rather than in the vanguard of progressive thought and action?
20248Is religion, is church membership a help to virtue?
20248Is religion, is church membership, a help to virtue?
20248Is this all that is left to the theologian: that he must use the pitiful"Theology of Gaps"?
20248It is an absurd answer to reply that the creator created himself, yet, even if this is granted, may not the universe have created itself?
20248It is an excellent and comprehensive statement, but one is left wondering why the name"religious humanism"?
20248It was Lactantius who asked,"Is there any one so senseless as to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher than their heads?
20248Must it take five hundred years for all mankind to come to a similar conclusion?
20248Now is it strange that Sinai should have excited reverence and dread?
20248Now it is the Martian''s turn to inquire of the Hebrew whether the latter had ever read this story to his own daughter?
20248Or did the Divine Father know that even a self- respecting germ could not inhabit the filthy floor of the Tabernacle?
20248Or, the story of Abraham''s affair with Hagar, his handmaiden?
20248Professor James T. Shotwell when speaking of paganism reminds us,"Who of us can appreciate antique paganism?
20248Surely, Jesus could not misinterpret his own words or deeds, if the religionists contend that we are now misinterpreting the Bible?
20248Surely, a man is not burned at the stake for his scepticism in this age; but is he not done to death?
20248That I have ten coats in my wardrobe while he goes naked?
20248That at each of my meals enough is served to feed his family for a week?
20248That the crops and trees grow downward?
20248That the rains and snow and hail fall upwards toward the earth?
20248The oft- repeated question still admits of no answer,"Who created the creator"?
20248Then again, has it not occurred to this apologist that he is in all futility attempting to prove something which is a contradiction within itself?
20248Then was heard the last despairing cry of the desolate, dying martyr,"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
20248To confuse the evil spirit causing the disease?
20248Truly, Jehovah at that time must have loved them well, or did some other Deity form the Egyptians?
20248Was it the brotherhood of man that Christianity bestowed on the conquered Mexican and Peruvian nations, and on the Indians of our own country?
20248What could be more explicit?
20248What did the prophetic movement do with his sacred powers?
20248What effect has Christianity had upon our moral life, upon crime, drug- addiction, sexual immorality, prostitution, and perversion?
20248What immense structures have been founded on these shifting sands, on this morass of ignorance and childish fable?
20248What is the cause?
20248What is the value of a church that has claimed the moral leadership of the world when such things can happen?
20248What kind of brotherhood did Christians bestow on Jews or heretics in the Middle Ages?
20248What of those countless millions of men that died before Christ came to save the world from damnation?
20248What sort of person would be the father who would announce divine punishment or reward in order to obtain the love and respect of his children?
20248What supernatural in their deeds?
20248What wisdom poured forth from their lips which did not come from other philosophers?
20248When the minds of men are from infancy perverted with these ideals, how can mankind build a virile race?
20248Who does not feel the absurdity of the opinion that the lavish care for a sick child by a mother is given because of a belief in God and immortality?
20248Why do n''t the masses go to Church?''
20248Why does the ecclesiastic not leave off his advances until the child reaches a mature age, an age when he can reason?
20248Why, therefore, not give Allah, the leading icon in Arabia, an opportunity?
20248Why?
20248Wieman, Macintosh, and Otto:"Is There a God?
20248Will he endeavor to analyze it at all?
20248Years ago I was asked,''Why do n''t people accept religion?
1185And can this God have a mother?
1185But,he adds,"some one may ask,''What was God doing before he made the heaven and the earth?
1185WHAT is truth?
1185What, then, is time? 1185 And now, at once, recurs the question, How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? 1185 And the thoughtful reader will earnestly ask,Are our solutions of these problems any better than theirs?"
1185And what does that point out?
1185Answer to the question, What has Science done for humanity?
1185Are mysteries, miracles, lying impostures, better?
1185Are these abiding impressions mere signal- marks, like the letters of a book, which impart ideas to the mind?
1185Are these criteria of truth?
1185Are we not excluding Almighty God from the world he has made?"
1185As to the issue of the coming conflict, can any one doubt?
1185But has not the order of civilization in all parts of the world been the same?
1185But here, in the first place, it may be demanded, Who or what is it that has put forth this great claim in its behalf?
1185But what is the meaning of all this?
1185But who can control an infuriated civil commotion?
1185But, again, it may be asked:"Is there not something profoundly impious in this?
1185But, if a personal interpretation of the book of Revelation is permissible, how can it be denied in the case of the book of Nature?
1185But, if, with them, we admit that the serpent is symbolical of Satan, does not that cast an air of allegory over the whole narrative?
1185Can any man place the line which bounds the physical on one side, the supernatural on the other?
1185Can we exaggerate the importance of a contention in which every thoughtful person must take part whether he will or not?
1185Could the government allow itself to be intimidated?
1185Did not God give you in me a better wife in her place?"
1185Do human societies, in their historic career, exhibit the marks of a predetermined progress in an unavoidable track?
1185Do not both exhibit to us phases of youth, of maturity, of decrepitude?
1185Do not our estimates of the extent and the duration of things depend altogether on our point of view?
1185Do they in like manner return, each to the source from which it has come?
1185Does not the growth of society resemble individual growth?
1185Does not their enormous size demonstrate that, as they are centres of force, so they must be centres of motion-- suns for other systems of worlds?
1185Does the soul arise from the one as the body arises from the other?
1185Has it been annihilated?
1185Has not conscience inalienable rights?
1185Have these been due to incessant divine interventions, or to the continuous operation of unfailing law?
1185Have we any standard or criterion of truth?
1185He asks:"Is not the worship of saints and angels now in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times?
1185How can a selection be made among them, except by such an appeal to Reason?
1185How can that be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
1185How can that give confidence in the moral, the spiritual, which has so signally failed in the physical?
1185How can they deny that there are antipodes, and other worlds than ours?
1185How could it be otherwise?
1185How could the dogma of a Vicar of God upon earth, the dogma of an infallible pope, be sustained in presence of such scandals?
1185How is it governed?
1185How is it possible to coordinate the infallibility of the papacy with the well- known errors into which it has fallen?
1185How many countries are there professing the same religion now that they did at the birth of Christ?
1185How many shrines are there now in successful operation in Europe?
1185How shall we account for the great failure we thus detect in the guardianship of the Church over Europe?
1185How was it possible that the population could increase?
1185If such be the conclusion to which we come respecting it, what would be the conclusion to which an Intelligence seated in it might come respecting us?
1185If, now, we demand, What has science done for the promotion of modern civilization; what has it done for the happiness, the well- being of society?
1185Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase?
1185Is it not plain that there must have been a common tie among all these bodies, that they are only parts of what must once have been a single mass?
1185Is not that a strange logic which finds proof of an asserted fact in an inexplicable illustration of something else?
1185Is not the accomplishment of a prophecy a testimony to its truth?
1185Is not this to exclude Almighty God from the worlds he has made?
1185Is the world, then, governed by law or by providential interventions, abruptly breaking the proper sequence of events?
1185Is there any evidence that the life of nations is under the control of immutable law?
1185Is there for each of us a providential intervention as we thus pass from stage to stage of life?
1185Is there not, however, a most serious objection in the way?
1185It lay in the question, Does the Bible owe its authenticity to the Church?
1185It may be said that this infallibility applies only to moral or religious things; but where shall the line of separation be drawn?
1185It was now plain to every one that the question had become,"Who is to be master in the state, the government or the Roman Church?
1185Many years subsequently, in the height of his power, Ayesha, who was one of the most beautiful women in Arabia, said to him:"Was she not old?
1185Must not that be false which requires for its support so much imposture, so much barbarity?
1185Not without reason do Protestants demand, What proof can be given that infallibility exists in the Church at all?
1185Of many great discoveries, has not this been the history?
1185Of them were there none who had fallen or might fall like us?
1185Of what consequence is man, his pleasures or his pains?
1185Of what consequence, then, can such an almost imperceptible particle be?
1185Or are there reasons for believing that these several systems came into existence not by such an arbitrary fiat, but through the operation of law?
1185Seeing that events which are past have vindicated these prophecies, shall we be blamed for trusting them in events that are to come?
1185Shall we not, then, conclude with Cicero, who, quoted by Lactantius, says:"One eternal and immutable law embraces all things and all times?"
1185Shall we speak of this man with disrespect?
1185Shall we wonder that, in some of the invasions of the plague, the deaths were so frightfully numerous that the living could hardly bury the dead?
1185The face of creation testifies that there has been a Creator; but at once arises the question,"How and when did he make heaven and earth?
1185The limits of our own system are far beyond the range of our greatest telescopes; what, then, shall we say of other systems beyond?
1185The past is not, the future is not, the present-- who can tell what it is, unless it be that which has no duration between two nonentities?
1185They came to listen to her discourses on those questions which man in all ages has asked, but which never yet have been answered:"What am I?
1185They remembered that he had once said to one who approached him with timid steps:"Of what dost thou stand in awe?
1185Was it a nonentity?
1185Was it for this preposterous scheme-- this product of ignorance and audacity-- that the works of the Greek philosophers were to be given up?
1185What can I know?"
1185What can be better than absolute truth?
1185What could be more humiliating than the circumstances under which it took place( A.D. 846)?
1185What is God?
1185What is the soul?
1185What is the world?
1185What then?
1185What, then, is that sacred, that revealed science, declared by the Fathers to be the sum of all knowledge?
1185What, then, remains for us?
1185When Science is thus commanded to surrender her intellectual convictions, may she not ask the ecclesiastic to remember the past?
1185Where am I?
1185Where is the criterion of truth?
1185Where would human physiology be, if it were not illuminated by the bright irradiations of comparative physiology?
1185Where, then, for them could a Savior be found?
1185Will it consent to retrace its steps to the semi- barbarian ignorance and superstition of the middle ages?
1185Will modern civilization consent to abandon the career of advancement which has given it so much power and happiness?
1185Would such an Intelligence think it necessary to require for our origin and maintenance the immediate intervention of God?
1185and why should the truth be ascertained by the vote of a majority rather than by that of a minority?
1185are they identical?
1185how much can he pay for the preferment?
1185is there no difference between the holy soul of Peter and the damned soul of Judas?
1185or does the Church owe her authenticity to the Bible?
1185shall we attribute to Almighty God a mother, as you dare to do?
1185shall we give up these books?
1185what proof is there that the Church has ever been fairly or justly represented in any council?
15905But what is it that I have been doing? 15905 How do you know that the Lord doeth it?"
15905What made the Mahommedan world? 15905 When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?
15905)[ 42] There is also a good deal said about a very questionable blind man-- one Albricus( Alberich?)
15905And having made his election, what reasons has he to give for his choice?
15905And if he is not, in what sense has this part of the uniformitarian doctrine, as he defines it, lowered its pretensions to represent scientific truth?
15905And if so, how can agnosticism be the"mere negation of the physicist"?
15905And now, what is to be said to Mr. Harrison''s remarkable deliverance"On the future of agnosticism"?
15905And what is historical truth but that of which the evidence bears strict scientific investigation?
15905And what is the state of things we find disclosed?
15905And what made the Christian world?
15905And what was the exact nature of the advice given?
15905And when the seven among the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?
15905And, finally, how is this account to be reconciled with those in the first and third gospels-- which, as we have seen, disagree with one another?
15905Are the authors of the versions in the second and third gospels really independent witnesses?
15905Are there then any Christians who say that they know nothing about the unseen world and the future?
15905Are there, then, any"conclusions"that are not"purely mental"?
15905Are we going back to the days of the Judges, when wealthy Micah set up his private ephod, teraphim, and Levite?
15905Are we to accept the Jesus of the second, or the Jesus of the fourth Gospel, as the true Jesus?
15905But if the primitive Nazarenes of whom the Acts speak were orthodox Jews, what sort of probability can there be that Jesus was anything else?
15905But is it true?
15905But to how much does this so- called claim amount?
15905But what conceivable motive could"Mark"have for omitting it?
15905But what is the evidence in this case?
15905But why all this more recent coil about the Gadarene swine and the like?
15905But why should a man be expected to call himself a"miscreant"or an"infidel"?
15905But will any one tell me that death is"necessary"?
15905By whose authority is the signification of that term defined?
15905CONTENTS: What Knowledge is of most Worth?
15905CREATION OR EVOLUTION?
15905Cosmas and Damianus?
15905Did Peter then omit to mention these matters?
15905Did he really fail to speak of the great position in the Church solemnly assigned to him by Jesus?
15905Did he think it, at any subsequent time, worth while"to confer with flesh and blood,"or, in modern phrase, to re- examine the facts for himself?
15905Did the fact testified by the oldest authority extant, that the first appearance of the risen Jesus was to himself seem not worth mentioning?
15905Do you pretend that these poor animals got in your way, years and years after the"Mosaic"fences were down, at any rate so far as you are concerned?
15905Does he hold by the one evangelist''s story, or by that of the two evangelists?
15905Does he really mean to suggest that agnostics have a logic peculiar to themselves?
15905For what is the adverse case?
15905Got in my way?
15905Has Nominalism, in any of its modifications, so completely won the day that Realism may be regarded as dead and buried without hope of resurrection?
15905Has any one then yet seen the production of negroes from a white stock, or_ vice versâ_?
15905Has it now a merely antiquarian interest?
15905How can he have founded the universal religion which was not heard of till twenty years after his death?
15905I am sorry to trouble him further, but what does he mean by"it"?
15905I ask any candid and impartial judge, Is that attacking anybody or anything?
15905I rejoice to think now of the( then) Bishop''s cordial hail the first time we met after our little skirmish,"Well, is it to be peace or war?"
15905If God did not walk in the Garden of Eden, how can we be assured that he spoke from Sinai?
15905If early views of religion and morality had not been imperfect, where had been the development?
15905If it is not historically true that such and such things happened in Palestine eighteen centuries ago, what becomes of Christianity?
15905If such materials were known to"Mark,"what imaginable reason could he have for not using them?
15905If symbolical visions and mythical creations had found no place in the early Oriental expression of Divine truth, where had been the development?
15905If the latter is to be accepted, or rejected, by private judgment, why not the former?
15905If the story of the Fall is not the true record of an historical occurrence, what becomes of Pauline theology?
15905If, he says, there are texts which seem to show that Jesus contemplated the evangelisation of the heathen:... Did not the Apostles hear our Lord?
15905In one''s zeal much of the old gets broken to pieces; but has one made ready something new, fit to be set in the place of the old?
15905Is he the kindly, peaceful Christ depicted in the Catacombs?
15905Is it contained in the so- called Apostle''s Creed?
15905Is it not certain that the Apostles did not gather this truth from His teaching?
15905Is it that contained in the Nicene and the Athanasian Creeds?
15905Is such a thing even conceivable?
15905Is there a Social Science?
15905Is there"no relation to things social"in"mental conclusions"which affect men''s whole conception of life?
15905Melanchthon, Ulrich von Hutten, Beza, were they not all humanists?
15905Might not there, however, be a suspension of a lower law by the intervention of a higher?
15905Much astonished at this remark from a person who was supposed not to have seen the relics, Eginhard asked him how he knew that?
15905Now what is a Christian?
15905On what grounds can a reasonable man be asked to believe any more?
15905Or can he be rightly represented by the bleeding ascetic, broken down by physical pain, of too many mediæval pictures?
15905Really?
15905So, if I am asked to call myself an"infidel,"I reply: To what doctrine do you ask me to be faithful?
15905Still more, on the first day, when it is nothing but a flat cellular disk?
15905The plain answer to this question is, Why should anybody be called upon to say how he knows that which he does not know?
15905The preacher asks,"Might not there be a suspension of a lower law by the intervention of a higher?"
15905The question for me is purely one of evidence: is the evidence adequate to bear out the theory, or is it not?
15905To this the priest,"Whence art thou, then, if these are not thy parents?"
15905WHAT IS ELECTRICITY?
15905Was Augustine heretical when he denied the actual historical truth of the record of the Creation?
15905Was not the arch- humanist, Erasmus, fautor- in- chief of the Reformation, until he got frightened and basely deserted it?
15905Was not the name of"Christian"first used to denote the converts to the doctrine promulgated by Paul and Barnabas at Antioch?
15905Was not their chief,"James, the brother of the Lord,"reverenced alike by Sadducee, Pharisee, and Nazarene?
15905Was that prince of agnostics, David Hume, particularly imbued with physical science?
15905Were Gentile converts bound to obey the Law or not?
15905Were none others current in the Roman communities, at the time"Mark"wrote, supposing he wrote in Rome?
15905Were these all that existed in the primitive threefold tradition?
15905What do we find when the accounts of the events in question, contained in the three Synoptic gospels, are compared together?
15905What is the"entire question"which"arises"in a"narrowed form"upon"secular testimony"?
15905What is to hinder our supposing that the organic creation is also a result of natural laws which are in like manner an expression of His will?
15905What line of my writing can the Duke of Argyll produce which confounds the organic with the inorganic?
15905What more intrinsic claim has the story of the Exodus than that of the Deluge, to belief?
15905What, then, was that labour of unsurpassed magnitude and excellence and of immortal influence which Newton did perform?
15905Where are the secret conspirators against this tyranny, whom I am supposed to favour, and yet not have the courage to join openly?
15905Who is to gainsay our ecclesiastical authority here?
15905Who shall or can forbid him?
15905Who was it?
15905Why should not your friend"levitate"?
15905Will their brethren follow their just and prudent guidance?
15905Would not an English court of justice speedily teach him better?
15905[ 44] Must we suppose, therefore, that the Apostle to the Gentiles has stated that which is false?
15905and what was_ their_ impression from what they heard?
15905or was he ready to accept anything that fitted in with his preconceived ideas?
39566And can you, my young friends, be careless about your own salvation while Samuel is so anxious for you? 39566 And what is radiation?"
39566And what, Mr. Hume, about the ice water?
39566And, Mr. Wilton,asked Peter,"does not the Bible say that''God created all things for his own glory''?"
39566Ansel, have you ever heard the''dew point''spoken of?
39566Ansel, will you state the theories which have been held touching the nature of heat?
39566Are you becoming discouraged and almost ready to give up all effort to follow Christ?
39566Are you unwilling to come to him-- to trust him and submit to him?
39566Are your thoughts and feelings and opinions about Christ and salvation the same as they were six weeks ago?
39566But by what agency does man achieve the mastery of Nature? 39566 But can you wholly get rid of the conviction that the Bible is the word of God, written by holy men inspired by the Holy Spirit?"
39566But how does this carry heat from the warmer region to the colder regions around?
39566But how would it please you if my talk upon the ministry of pain should prove to be very much like a sermon?
39566But were you not interested and pleased with the discourse? 39566 But what did you mean?
39566But why do you say, of course? 39566 But would not all these natural agencies subserve essentially the same ends in the discipline of unfallen and sinless beings?
39566But, Samuel, did you not pray for Mr. Hume also, and talk with him?
39566But,said he,"does not the book of Nature-- your Bible, as you call it-- have something to say of God?
39566Can you tell us, Ansel, whether the earth receives heat from the moon and stars?
39566Can you tell us, Peter, why tubs of water set in a cellar should have this effect?
39566Can you tell why a newspaper spread over a tomato vine keeps the frost from the vine?
39566Did you ever think, Ansel, that you were very ambitious?
39566Did you expect a month ago that at this time you would be feeling and acting as you now feel and act?
39566Do not men heat and burn bricks, not to soften them, but to harden them?
39566Do you believe that Christ is able to save you?
39566Do you believe that he is willing to save you?
39566Do you know what is meant by it?
39566Do you look upon this irregular expansion and contraction of water,asked Mr. Hume,"as a real exception to the rule that heat expands bodies?"
39566Do you wish now that you had fought it through, as you proposed, and kept all your feelings to yourself?
39566Have not you, Mr. Hume, been treating Christ and the Holy Spirit as Samuel feared that you would treat him?
39566Have you ever noticed whether cloudy nights or clear nights are the warmer?
39566Have you no more enjoyment in reading the Scriptures and in your prayer in secret than you had a week ago?
39566How could the dew fall upon the under side?
39566How could we tell,asked Peter,"without knowing what kind of work the machine was designed to do?"
39566How does the form of the earth operate to produce inequality of temperature?
39566How is water formed from these two gases? 39566 How would such a plan please the other members of the class?"
39566I am glad to hear that; but can you tell how they are different?
39566I want to ask,said Peter,"how this internal heat came to exist, and how it is maintained?"
39566If I understand you, then,he said,"you would like a course of lessons in the teachings of Nature?"
39566In this bountiful supply of heat to warm the earth and serve human needs must we not see a kind design on the part of the Creator? 39566 Perhaps,"he continued,"you would prefer to study one of the historic books of the Old Testament?"
39566Peter, what is the third method by which heat passes from place to place?
39566Samuel, what is the cause of day and night?
39566That is the old and common expression, but what is meant by latent heat?
39566Upon what does the dew point depend?
39566Was your answer correct, then?
39566We use heat also in cooking our food,spoke up Peter:"is it not because heat destroys the cohesive attraction, and thus softens it?"
39566What answer did you try to give him, Ansel?
39566What are some of those means for transferring heat which seem to you to operate the same in the annual as in the daily changes of temperature?
39566What book can you find which is true if the Bible is not true?
39566What do you mean, Ansel?
39566What do you think it is that hinders your coming into light and joy as others have done?
39566What do you wish?
39566What have you been reading, Ansel, that has put such thoughts into your mind?
39566What have you tried to do for Christ?
39566What is cohesive attraction?
39566What is combustion?
39566What is it, Ansel?
39566What is meant by convection of heat?
39566What is meant, Ansel, by the''conduction''of heat?
39566What is that heat called, Ansel, which is absorbed by a body with no rise of temperature?
39566What is that inequality of temperature which is produced by the shape of the earth?
39566What is the cause of the sun''s heat?
39566What is the evidence,asked Samuel,"that the dynamic theory of heat is true?"
39566What is the third great natural source of heat? 39566 What leads you,"asked Mr. Wilton,"to present yourself to the church, asking for baptism?"
39566What will you say, Peter?
39566Why did you stand upon a rock?
39566Will you correct your answer?
39566Will you not tell us,said Samuel,"how these ocean currents are produced?
39566Will you please explain this?
39566Will you please tell us, Mr. Wilton, how this weakening of cohesive attraction is explained upon the dynamic theory of heat?
39566Would it be wise and well to take no account of foreseen events? 39566 ''And who are these lads and young men for whom all this work and wisdom is expended?'' 39566 ''Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? 39566 ''Pray, sir,''he says to the master,''what is this strange contradictory institution?'' 39566 ''What must I do to be saved?'' 39566 --_Youmans._What is the second method by which heat passes from place to place?"
3956630:"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
39566A hundred times a day the questions came, What if there be a God who holds me responsible?
39566A self- righteous young man came to Jesus asking,''Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may inherit everlasting life?''
39566Ansel, have you studied geology?"
39566Ansel, how shall we explain this?"
39566Ansel, what part of the atmosphere is warmest?"
39566Are there different conditions and different duties required of different men?
39566Are they mixed together as oxygen and nitrogen are mingled in the air, or are they chemically united?"
39566Are we to suppose that the column of heated air reaches to the top of the atmosphere?"
39566Are you contented to live''having no hope and without God in the world''?
39566Are you, Samuel, in your interest in studying Nature, forgetting Christ and the souls of men?"
39566At length he thought,''Why should I not?
39566But did God''s plan excuse his treason against his Lord?
39566But does it seem reasonable that the world was designed merely as a place of punishment for men by reason of their wickedness?"
39566But does not that condensation which forms the cloud- ring set free latent heat, and thus intensify the great heat of the equator?
39566But here two questions arise: What is the glory of God?
39566But how is the weight raised?
39566But how shall we know the object for which God made and governs the world?"
39566But if the casket be so worthy, what shall be said of the gem which is enshrined within?
39566But what did you learn last Sunday?"
39566But what is one iceberg to the thousands which drift yearly from the frigid zones toward the tropics?
39566But what is the Gulf Stream, though it be fifty fold greater than all the rivers of the world, in comparison with the whole sum of the ocean streams?
39566But what is the question which you wished to propose?"
39566But what is the question?"
39566But what is the setting for this gem?
39566But what kind of evidence am I to look for?"
39566But whence comes the force necessary to accomplish this?
39566But whence comes the heat of combustion?
39566But why do not the glowing rays of the sun raise the temperature at once to the highest possible point?
39566But why do not the vegetables begin to freeze as soon as the water?"
39566But why not endow living creatures with nerves of sensation which could experience pleasure, but could not feel pain?
39566But why should not God embrace in his plan that great event, the fall of man, which he foresaw in the future?
39566Can you blot out your past sins?
39566Can you change that condemnation by your feeble, fickle resolutions to reform?
39566Can you erase the record which stands written in the book of remembrance on high?
39566Can you not now tell why water is incombustible?"
39566Can you tell us, Ansel, how the temperature of the earth is affected by the atmosphere?"
39566Can you tell us, Peter, at what season of year the earth is nearer the sun?"
39566Could his late repentance call them back to life and hope?
39566Did Mr. Hume say that what he calls''The book of Nature''contradicts the sacred Scriptures?"
39566Did the Creator then''Bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the sun''s axle''?
39566Did this plan touching Christ make the apostasy of man a necessity?
39566Did you ever see barefoot boys running in the cold dew stop and stand upon a stone or rock to get their feet warm?"
39566Did you not carry the same idea of being chief into your plans and expectations for the future?
39566Do all bodies conduct heat with equal rapidity?"
39566Do clouds tend to produce inequalities of temperature?"
39566Do n''t you remember how he used to laugh at the idea of being plunged in the river in honor of a dead man?
39566Do not men produce by cultivation better fruits and vegetables than Nature ever grows when left to herself?"
39566Do not the laws of Nature bring suffering to the good and the bad alike, and happiness also to all classes of men?
39566Do not the works of Nature tell of the same God whose being and character were preached to us yesterday from the Holy Scriptures?"
39566Do you know, Ansel, how to ascertain the dew point at any time?"
39566Do you really and honestly wish to be saved from sin?
39566Do you remember what was said about the production of cold by expansion and of heat by compression?"
39566Do you think that my long trial of doubt and unrest and pain of heart can ever be blessed to my good?"
39566Do you wish to study the evidences of the truth and inspiration of the Holy Scriptures?"
39566Does Nature punish those whom you call the wicked?
39566Does Nature reward the righteous?
39566Does any one think of another cause of inequality of temperature?"
39566Does it not mean that he made the world so good and perfect that all creatures ought to praise him on account of it?"
39566Does it not speak of an infinitely wise and good Creator and Governor?
39566Does that seem to you to be true, Samuel?"
39566Does the temperature rise in any place?
39566Does the world seem as if fitted up to be the dwelling- place of holy beings?"
39566During the past few weeks you have heard others asking,''What shall we do to be saved?''
39566Have you never heard of setting tubs of water in cellars to keep vegetables from freezing?"
39566Have you succeeded in getting rid of your sins?
39566He could only cry out in astonishment,''Father, why am I, thine obedient son, thus smitten?''
39566How are we to combine these two sets of arrangements in our thinking?"
39566How can God make his frown felt except by looking pain, so to speak, into the sinner''s conscience?
39566How could it be otherwise?
39566How is carbon brought into this state of suspense, waiting to dash upon oxygen and develop heat?
39566How is this accomplished?
39566How is this diurnal change of temperature alleviated?"
39566How is this provision for suffering in man and in all sentient creatures consistent with the benevolence elsewhere shown?
39566How much heat is given out in the freezing of water?"
39566How shall their motions be explained?
39566How shall we estimate the strength of this force?
39566How were you interested in the sermon?"
39566How would that affect the rate of radiation from the earth?"
39566How would you apply this principle to the subject we are now considering?
39566Hume?"
39566Hume?"
39566Hume?"
39566Hume?"
39566Hume?"
39566Hume?"
39566If Nature and Nature''s God have blessings in store for the willing and the obedient, why should not I know this and receive my share?"
39566If a second example were made of a second ungodly city, would the expression of divine wrath be weakened?
39566If, however, you want something else than the salvation which Jesus gives, what can you expect but perplexity, difficulty, darkness?
39566Is it a new and original generation of heat, or is it merely a transfer?
39566Is it because it evaporates before it reaches a sufficiently high temperature?"
39566Is it not reasonable to believe that he designed it for their use?
39566Is it wrong to wish for such an experience?"
39566Is that so?"
39566Is this plain to you, Ansel, and does it seem reasonable?"
39566Is this possible?
39566Is your happiness here and hereafter more important to Samuel than to yourselves?"
39566Jesus has gone to prepare mansions for those who will, as he foresees, believe in him: why not make provision for foreseen evils also?
39566Mr. Hume, can you suggest any method by which we can estimate the amount of heat which is carried north and south by the return trades?"
39566Mr. Wilton proposed the question to the class:"What shall be our next course of lessons?
39566Must he, then, after having caught a glimpse of life and joy, be cut off from hope and be driven from God for ever?
39566No one else answered, and finally Mr. Hume said:"I suppose, of course, that you refer to the land and sea breezes?"
39566On the other hand, when the sun sets and his heat is withdrawn, why does not the temperature fall suddenly to the lowest possible point?
39566Ought we to believe that God planned the world for an object for which it never has been and never will be employed?
39566Perhaps you will tell us what seems to you to be that object?
39566Peter, have you ever seen a coal- pit?
39566Plant a grain of corn in midwinter: why does it not germinate and grow?
39566Samuel, what is a third cause of unequal temperature?"
39566Samuel, will you name the second chief source of heat?"
39566Shall we from the burden flee?
39566Some even ventured to approach Mr. Hume himself with their raillery:"What do you think now of being dipped in the river in honor of a dead man?"
39566The Creator foresaw the fall of man; is there no objection to the supposition that, knowing that man would sin, God made no provision for it?
39566The young man answered,''All these have I kept from my youth up; what lack I yet?''
39566Then Ansel spoke up:"Mr. Wilton, why can we not study something which we know to be true?"
39566Was it merely an accident that the dove was fitted to become the emblem of purity and of the Holy Spirit?
39566Was not this so?"
39566What care could give him knowledge of the qualities of all natural substances, that he might avoid their dangerous properties?
39566What carefulness could guard against the tornado on the land, or the hurricane and the cyclone upon the sea?
39566What could his confession do for the young men already, perhaps, among the lost through his influence?
39566What did he mean by that, Samuel?"
39566What does man need besides scope and reward for exertion?
39566What effect, Peter, has the unevenness of the earth''s surface upon temperature?"
39566What if Christ be the Son of God?
39566What if a third example be made of a third city?
39566What if every wicked city is made an example?
39566What if hydrogen were put in the place of nitrogen?
39566What if some other equally active element were mingled with oxygen to form the atmosphere?
39566What if there be a future life and a judgment day?
39566What if, in place of nitrogen, vapor of sulphur were substituted?
39566What is another cause of inequality of temperature?"
39566What is meant by this?
39566What is that?"
39566What is the chief form of this which is used for the production of heat?
39566What is the general principle touching the effect of heat upon bodies?"
39566What is the meaning of this?
39566What is understood, Ansel, by this term, specific heat?"
39566What need is there of a creator?
39566What power should save him from the bursting of the volcano and the jaws of the earthquake?
39566What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits?
39566What was a confession in comparison with the ruin he had caused?
39566What will be the end of his groping in darkness?
39566What would be the effect, Ansel, if the atmosphere were as warm, or warmer, at the top than at the surface of the earth?
39566What, Mr. Hume, do you think the effect would be upon creatures such as we all know men to be?"
39566When radiant heat falls upon a body, what becomes of it?"
39566Which will encourage the larger manliness and nurture the higher culture and strength?
39566Who can prove that the universe did not exist from eternity?
39566Who should stand sentinel against the unseen poison borne upon the wings of the wind?
39566Who will mention another method by which heat is economized?"
39566Who will suggest it?"
39566Who will tell us?"
39566Why does not the dew-- for frost is nothing but dew frozen as it forms-- come upon the under side of the paper?"
39566Why is this, Samuel?"
39566Why not give up my own will?
39566Why not pray that God''s will may be done?''
39566Will some one explain this?"
39566Will some one mention some of the general methods by which the waste of heat is prevented?"
39566Will some one now state the manner in which the dynamic theory of heat explains this expansion?"
39566Will some one suggest what this agency is?"
39566Will you bolt the door?
39566Will you not come to him?
39566Will you not trust his promises and commit yourselves to his hands to be saved?
39566Will you tell us, Peter, the first and chief of these effects?"
39566Will you tell us, Samuel, how winds are caused?"
39566Will you tell us, Samuel, the first adjustment or arrangement upon which the temperature of the earth depends?"
39566Will you, Mr. Hume, suggest one of the general arrangements for the economical use of heat?"
39566Wilt thou not bow their pride of heart and turn their wills and make their hearts tender, gentle, and believing?
39566Wilt thou not draw them to thyself?
39566Wilt thou not smite the rock, and cause the waters of penitent grief to flow?
39566With these machines before you, could you tell me whether the inventor were a wise and skillful machinist?"
39566Would God forgive and raise to heavenly heights a man who had dragged others down to hell?
39566Would it be possible that Christ should fill his soul with blessedness while his victims were drinking the wine of the wrath of God?
39566Would it have been wiser and better to leave out of account that most stupendous fact in the history of the human race?
39566Would that seem to be a fitting employment for the sinless children of the all- loving Father?
39566Would you be satisfied to have a commonplace experience, such as thousands of others have, which would attract no special notice?
39566Would you like to study one of the Epistles-- the Epistle to the Romans or that to the Hebrews?"
39566Yet, taken as a whole, can one doubt that variety of climate and change of temperature are of advantage to man?
39566You cry out,''Men and brethren, what shall we do?''
39566and Peter''s answer,"Lord, to whom shall we go?
39566and the lion, of strength and regal state?
39566and, What is it for God to glorify himself by his works of creation and government?
39566he asked;"do you think Genesis less trustworthy than the Epistle of Paul?"
39566the ant, to be the type of prudent industry?
39566the horse, of spirit and daring?
39566the lamb, to be the emblem of gentleness, of Christ the gentle Sufferer, and of his suffering people?
35408How do we know,says Dr. Chalmers, in stating the atheistic argument,"that the world is a consequent at all?
35408What does not fade? 35408 All nature calls aloud,--''Shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless?''
35408And are we authorized to draw such an inference?
35408And besides, how is the fact to be explained that this power was not exerted till six thousand years ago?
35408And can any reasonable man conceive how such changes can have taken place since the six days of creation, or within the last six thousand years?
35408And can we doubt but that these rocks are thus spread over the surface of the globe because they are needed by all mankind, like air and water?
35408And does not the narrative leave the impression on the mind of the reader, that it was brought about by natural means?
35408And how was it with these?
35408And if so, how liable would vast accumulations of heat be, if there were no safety- valves through the crust, to rend asunder even a whole continent?
35408And if the principle has been found of service in chemistry, meteorology, and astronomy, why should it be neglected in the case of geology?
35408And what are these results?
35408And what could that basis be but the divine plan?
35408And what surer means of bringing out these developments than change, constant and everlasting change?
35408And yet, when we come to look beyond the surface, where do we find more decisive or more numerous indications of God''s beneficence?
35408And, furthermore, how could animals feed on plants without destroying, as they now do, multitudes of minute insects and animalcules?
35408And, need I add that these are but the precursors of the second death?
35408But are not actions merely the external manifestation of thoughts and purposes?
35408But are these grounds sufficient to justify so important a conclusion?
35408But can we doubt that the Author of mind should be able to influence it directly and indirectly, unperceived by the man so acted upon?
35408But do not such evils, incidental to every event, indicate a feeling in the divine mind different from unmixed benevolence?
35408But does it follow, from these positions, that science can throw no light upon the truths of Scripture?
35408But does it, therefore, follow that there can be no change in its material form and aspect?
35408But does not such a view limit the divine power and wisdom?
35408But does not this law of mutual influence between organic beings extend to other worlds?
35408But does not this principle of special adaptation to individual exigencies demand miraculous agency in all cases?
35408But does the fact that man''s faculties are limited, prove that an arithmetical process can not be carried on from eternity to eternity?
35408But he may ask God''s blessing?
35408But if so, what but an infinite mind could in time begin the work of organic creation?
35408But if such be the fact, how happens it that so few persons pass through life without disease?
35408But if the work be not pleasing to Infinite Wisdom and Benevolence, why should I desire for it an ephemeral success among men?
35408But if this were so, would the relation of Moses thereby become false and untenable?
35408But is it the most probable interpretation of this passage, which makes the tempter a literal serpent, or only a symbolical one?
35408But is natural theology in fact destitute of all satisfactory proof that the matter of the universe had a beginning?
35408But is there not evidence that mind sometimes acts directly upon other minds, without any gross, intervening media?
35408But is this the true meaning of a miracle?
35408But the inquiry still arises, What gives the efficiency to this second and third law?
35408But the question is, Why is there such a constitution given to nature as made it necessary to introduce disease, accident, and death?
35408But what connection, it will be asked, can there be between the history of rocks and the benevolence of God?
35408But when did this stupendous event occur?
35408But when they are crushed by falling bodies, or by falling themselves, who imagines this to be the design of gravitation?
35408But where, save in the fiat of an infinite Deity, is the power that can make this universe of death teem again with life and beauty?
35408But who will attempt to fix the chronological limits of these systems?
35408But why may not other developments await them in the round of eternal ages, as their expanding faculties are able to understand and appreciate them?
35408But why should an historical fact possess less value, if transmitted to us through the channel of sacred, rather than profane, writers?
35408But why should they be unwilling to have geology liberalize their minds as much in respect to duration as astronomy has done in respect to space?
35408But, admitting that they do, is it certain that inadequate views of sin are the result?
35408But, after all, would such an interpretation have ever been thought of, had not the discoveries of geology seemed to demand it?
35408By what rule of interpretation can the same word in the next verse be made to mean indefinite periods?
35408Can the one opinion be intelligible while the other is not so?"
35408Can the wants of individuals be met in any other way than by miracles, or by the ordinary and settled laws of nature?
35408Can we believe such a world to be heaven?
35408Confess his error?
35408Confess his sins?
35408Could not such natures have been bestowed upon creatures, that good only might have been their portion?
35408Could the assertors of the stony science ask for language more express?
35408Do we not, in these examples, gather strong intimations of a great law of chemical change in the universe?
35408Do you say that it merely shows infinite wisdom, which adjusts means to ends with consummate skill, in order to be sure of success in its designs?
35408Does it comprehend the universe?
35408Does the atheist say, All is the result of laws inherent in matter?
35408Does the phrase_ in the beginning_ show us when?
35408Does what we suppose might have been then, imply any greater absurdity, than what we actually see to be at present?
35408Even man can do this to his fellow; and shall such a power be denied to God?
35408For what is a natural law?
35408For who can set limits to those mutations which an infinite God can produce upon the matter of this vast universe?
35408From what part of the Bible, or from what uninspired author, can a parallel example be adduced?
35408From whence could this immense volume of water have been derived?
35408Had there not been something in man''s character requiring the discipline of trials, would pure benevolence have sent them?
35408Had they any relation to the existing system?
35408Has Peter, then, made a mistake because he did not understand modern chemistry?
35408Has he been so met by the reasoning that has usually been employed to refute his opinion?
35408He is looked up to as an oracle on other subjects, and why should he not be equally wise concerning religion?
35408He propounds the inquiry,"Do the sun and moon move in the heavens and revolve around the earth, while the earth remains at rest?"
35408How can this hypothesis explain such sudden changes, when its essential principle is, that the progress of the development is uniform?
35408How does it happen, then, you may inquire, that evil is the result of a multitude of contrivances and processes in nature?
35408How is it possible that such reasoning should have satisfied logical and philosophical minds?
35408If he had not seen death in other animals, how could he have any idea of the nature of the threatening?
35408If not, what weight or meaning would there be in the penalty?
35408If the question arises, Whence came such marvellous laws to exist in nature?
35408If they have the former meaning, then the inquiry arises, What are we to understand by the destruction here described?
35408In other words, is not this a case in which the discoveries of science enable us more accurately to understand the Scriptures?
35408Indeed, what natural agency can be named, that is not armed with the power to do evil?
35408Is it all to be imputed to an abuse and perversion of the organs and powers of life?
35408Is it inherent in matter, or is it a power communicated to organization by a supreme Being?
35408Is it not the very place where the objector would find arguments to prove the malevolence, certainly the vindictive justice, of the Deity?
35408Is it not, then, benevolence by which this agency prevents so dreadful a catastrophe, even by means that bring some incidental evils along with them?
35408Is it said that the heavens and the earth shall be dissolved by fire?
35408Is it said that the world shall have an end, and be no more?
35408Is it said that the world shall perish?
35408Is it those which our reasoning derives from the constancy of nature, or those inspired by piety and the Bible?
35408Is not a strong presumption hence produced that further and more scrutinizing observation will show the few excepted cases not to be real exceptions?
35408Is not the God of revelation the God of nature also?
35408Is not the conclusion a fair one, that the hypothesis has no solid foundation?
35408Is not the evidence against it overwhelming?
35408Is the term ever applied to any but extraordinary events?
35408Is this an exactly correct statement of the case?
35408It must exist and act wherever we find light, heat, or electricity; and where do we not find them?
35408May it not imply as much as Taylor''s theory supposes?
35408May not this be one of the modes in which new developments of the character of God will open upon them in the world of bliss?
35408Must we not, then, regard this fact as one of the settled principles of science?
35408Nay, if there be no distinct spirit in man, what evidence have we that there is one in Jehovah?
35408Now, if we admit that mind does operate upon other minds while we are in the body, independent of the body, can we tell how far the influence extends?
35408Now, in the case under consideration, is there any reason to doubt the high antiquity of the globe, as demonstrated by geology?
35408Now, in what manner have these ingenious arguments been met?
35408Now, might not the same question be carried back to any point or period of duration, however remote?
35408Now, the question is, Do not these different statements conflict with one another?
35408Now, what are the changes which the last six thousand years have witnessed?
35408Now, what was it that gave the laws of nature power, after so long an operation unproductive of vitality, to produce organic natures?
35408Now, who gave to matter, in a gaseous state, such wonderful laws that this fair world should be the result of their operation?
35408Now, will not the condition and character of Adam show how this curse might be fulfilled, without any change in the productions of the soil?
35408Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower of Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
35408Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?
35408Shall geology here, also, be permitted to modify our exposition of the Bible?
35408Shall the gross perceptions of this disordered world be made the standard of all that exists?
35408Shall we attempt to trace back that history any farther?
35408Shall we not, then, admit that to be religious truth on earth which in heaven will form the food of perfectly holy minds?
35408Shall we turn our steps first to the valleys and mountains of Wales?
35408Thank God for giving him access to such follies?
35408The only question is, Do they suffer so much that their existence is not a blessing?
35408Then why are the remains of men not found with theirs?
35408This may be understood only of the present form and organization of the visible system?
35408To what use can such vast forests be applied?
35408We talk about its power to produce certain effects; but who can point out any inherent power of this sort which it possesses?
35408Were they governed by different laws, or are they all but parts of one great and harmonious system, embracing the whole of the earth''s past duration?
35408What better confirmation could we wish than this gradually expanding series?
35408What but the strongest necessity, the most decided_ exigentia loci_, would justify such an anomalous interpretation of any author?
35408What can he say to God, when he would pray to him?
35408What events in the earth''s pre- Adamic history would seem less likely to come down to us than the pattering of a shower?
35408What evidence is there that the same laws have ever prevailed?
35408What is a natural law without the presence and energizing power of the lawgiver?
35408What is a secondary cause?
35408What is he to do the following morning?
35408What is it on earth that affords the greatest amount of happiness derived from the external world?
35408What is odyle?
35408What is the evidence that the chemical rays of a sunbeam are rays of light?
35408What is this but ascribing infinite perfection to law, and imputing to it effects which only an infinite intelligence could bring about?
35408What mark is given us, by which we may know where the boundary is between the literal and the metaphorical sense?
35408What then would become of the marks of design and unity in nature, and of the Theist''s argument for the being of a God?
35408What though he still clings to the notion of matter''s eternity?
35408What though human experience, dependent on the bluntness of mortal sensibilities, can not demonstrate such an influence?
35408What though the atheist should here be allowed to maintain his favorite theory that matter never had a beginning?
35408What, now, by a fair exegesis, is taught in this passage concerning the destruction and renovation of the world?
35408What, then, has so completely annihilated this argument, that now the merest schoolboy would be ashamed to advocate it?
35408Whence came the seeds?
35408Where was the need of overwhelming those regions in which there were no human beings?
35408Where, then, can we find the thousands of years which, by this theory, are essential to prepare this residence for their reception?
35408Who can conceive of any inherent force that should thus enable them, all at once, to do what true philosophy shows to have demanded infinite skill?
35408Who can find the traces of benevolence in the midst of such desolation and death?
35408Who can say that it might not rend a continent asunder, and, if deep enough seated, even the whole globe?
35408Who can show how a law operates but through the energizing influence of the lawgiver?
35408Who can tell us now when this process of refrigeration commenced?
35408Who has not heard of the fertility of the banks of the Nile, the Niger, the Ganges, the Amazon, and the Mississippi?
35408Who knows but a blow struck upon a single link of organic beings here may be felt through the whole circle of animate existence in all worlds?
35408Who knows but this is the hour when the peal is beginning?
35408Who thinks, at this day, of any discrepancy between astronomy and revelation?
35408Who will admit such an absurdity?
35408Who will deny this?
35408Who will maintain that all this took place in the short period of two thousand years?
35408Why is it not an example of spontaneous generation?
35408Why may not a part of that increase depend upon their introduction into higher and higher economies through eternal ages?
35408Why should it not be transmitted by means of the luminiferous ether to the limits of the universe?
35408Why, then, I inquire, should these provisions for trying exigencies in the animal system always tend to the happiness of the creature?
35408Why, then, has he not done it?
35408Why, then, he must have inquired, is there such a profusion of vegetable forms, and such a colossal development of individual plants?
35408Why, then, may we not attach the same limited meaning to these declarations?
35408Why, then, should it not be taught to children, that they may not be liable to distrust the whole Bible, when they come to the study of geology?
35408Will any one believe that the principles of moral science and mathematics will be altered or annihilated by the conflagration of the globe?
35408Will any one believe this possible, in a vessel not more than four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy- five feet broad, and forty- five feet high?
35408Will any reasonable man believe this possible without a miracle?
35408Would it not be equally good to disprove the demonstrated principles of mathematics which relate to infinite quantities?
35408Would not unmixed benevolence have conferred the good, but have withheld the evil?
35408Yet what uninspired writer of the first century would have imagined such a result?
35408[ 2] What but the principles of science could have thus vindicated a precious doctrine of revelation?
35408_ By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin._ What terms more general or explicit than these could be used?
35408_ My fourth argument in support of the general principle is based upon odylic reaction._ And what is odylic reaction?
35408_ Suppose ye_, answered the Savior,_ that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
35408_ There shall come_, says he,_ in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
35408and if so, is the discrepancy apparent only, or real?
35408and must not his varied works tend to sustain and elucidate, instead of weakening and darkening, one another?
35408and why may not new species be produced in this manner?
35408and, therefore, is not thought the efficient agency that impresses the universe?
35408or for the fact, that as we rise higher in the rocks, there is a nearer and nearer approach to existing species?
35408or for the fact, that most of them are of a highly tropical character?
35408or who would regard it in opposition to the sacred record?
35408or, in other words, might we not dispense with a beginning for the world altogether?"
35408or, in other words, what is a law of nature considered as a cause?
47314A branching channel, with a mazy flood? 47314 And there a glorious City stood, And''mid tumultuous market- cry, I asked''Where rose the Town?
47314And what progress have we made in our task of explaining Sight? 47314 But now we ask further, wherein does this higher law manifest itself to us, as the physical law does in the material world?
47314Does Structure originate Function, or does Function originate Structure? 47314 He that planted the ear, shall He not hear?
47314I found a country wild and rude, And, axe in hand, beside a tree, The Hermit of that Solitude,-- I asked''how old that Wood might be?'' 47314 Is not this,"he asks Hutcheson,"laid a little too strong?
47314There in the deep of waters cast His nets one lonely fisherman, And as he drew them up at last I asked him''how that Lake began?'' 47314 What am I?
47314What story?
47314Why is this?
47314[ 154] But in what history is any such experience written? 47314 ''Omnipresence''is simply_ presence throughout all space_; and what do we know of''presence''at all but by our own experience? 47314 ''What,''he may ask,''is it that holds together the parts of these ultimate atoms?'' 47314 --to say nothing of the desideratedwhat?"
47314A Sermon upon the Question Under what Conditions is a Science of Natural Theology possible?
47314A more subtle question would be this;--Suppose it could be taken away, how nearly would Man and brute approach each other?
47314A straight bridge, or with two lines touching at the apex?
47314Again,"Do you mean by the word inconceivable,_ unthinkable_ or_ unimaginable_?"
47314Am I th''abandon''d orphan of blind chance?
47314And does not the same remark apply to every attempt at solving the antithesis of mind and matter?
47314And have we not, every one of us, who tries to be good, our proper fields of hard yet repaying work?
47314And if this were true, what would become of the order and harmony of the Universe?
47314And is not all this most plain and evident?
47314And is not seeing, believing?
47314And is there not something in the"Religious insight"Mr. Newman speaks of which seems nothing less than a gift of vision and faculty divine?
47314And this seems reasonable; for who would assert that a Professor of Poetry ought to give competent instruction in the Calculus?
47314And what are they?
47314And what consideration for the individual is tolerable unless society be the gainer thereby?"
47314And what endowment has a higher claim to such a representative kinship?--what nobler gift can be conceived from God to man than a Belief of Reason?
47314And what human dream, vision, or philosophy, could ever have foreseen the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him?
47314And what if we could extend our field of view to a world-- to the universe?
47314And what is Man, compared with the equal dog who bears him company?
47314And what is more delusive in evidence than a half- truth, or more perilously sophisticating to the mind of him who utters it?
47314And what more is gone besides?
47314And what relation does visual_ Perception_ bear to this Power?
47314And who is not in earnest, as sunset and sunrise remind him how the majestic clock of Time moves on?
47314And why was this?
47314And, if not, can we expect truly to know the_ self_ of anything?
47314And, when this question is answered as it must be answered, need we feel surprised if we fall short of conceiving the self- subsistent God?
47314Arbuthnot._"''To the eye of vulgar Logic,''says he,''what is man?
47314As I describe these instances one by one, let my hearers ask themselves, How does this illusion come about?
47314As Socrates and Cicero have pointedly asked:''Whence have we picked it up?''
47314Besides, if Mental activity is resolvable into Brain, why should not Matter be likewise resolved into Force?
47314Besides, in this latter example do we not see how truly correlative these two terms Power and Function are?
47314But Oh philosopher, is all this a contemptible dream?
47314But about colour?
47314But are all points of the relation to be implied?
47314But are they the same in our race?--may they not more probably be red, green, and violet?
47314But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact, whose existence we can infer by reason?...
47314But did Paley himself perceive any such community of attribute?
47314But do you not think it looks very like a Notion entertained by some eminent Moderns, of_ seeing all things in God_?
47314But does anybody on their account doubt his own Self- ness or Identity?
47314But does the lesson of life really go this way?
47314But does this rejoinder satisfactorily dispose of the difficulty?
47314But how are we to know that Force must be all of one kind and description?
47314But how can any Idea or Sensation exist in, or be produced by, anything but a Mind or Spirit?
47314But if dim to some, is it certainly dim to all?
47314But if this be true of the_ human_ Will, what ought to be said of the_ Divine_?
47314But in either case is the good effect its full and comprehensive"why?"
47314But now comes the question, who or what is answerable for the Reviewer''s misconception,--Spencer or his critics?
47314But so long as we all believe the same thing, what matter is it how we come by that Belief?
47314But suppose the stone about which you and I are talking was thrown by the fiery force of a volcano?
47314But then, what is that secret strength which apprehends and evokes the higher law?
47314But what about its final end?
47314But what arms could we take up to stem the billows of a swelling tide?
47314But what does this instrument enable us to see?
47314But what is all we really know and can know about the latter phenomenon?
47314But what is the foundation of this method of reasoning?
47314But what merely sensitive intelligence could discern the invisible agency,--or measure the conversion of force, where nothing is visible except loss?
47314But what say you, are not you too of Opinion that we see all Things in God?
47314But who would wish the congelation of our Moral sense?
47314But why?
47314But, can the Physiologist conceive such a monstrosity?
47314But, has it ever possessed latent powers for which opportunity was always wanting?
47314But, how?
47314But, if it is inquired,"whether the_ Mechanical_ Laws of Matter are the laws of Universal Nature, including human nature?
47314But, is not one chief object in knowing man, to acquaint ourselves with God?
47314But, must not all things really great and good be toilsome to men who are neither very good nor very great?
47314But, suppose both face and sorrow were themselves only shadows?
47314But, suppose your young philosopher for his own pleasure wrings his canary bird''s neck?
47314But, what are we to say of A?
47314Can any thoughtful person admit the conclusions of one apparently so unfit for his task?
47314Can he and others help believing them true?
47314Can he conscientiously believe that its issue is a worthy representation of the Divine and omnipotent Creator?
47314Can he ever expect to perform the behests of that pure and perfect Will?
47314Can such worship, or such an object of worship, bless and satisfy our high aspiring race?
47314Can there be a nobler_ object_?
47314Can this be a declaration deduced from the supreme law of Interest,--is it not rather a foundation maxim of independent morality?
47314Can we absolutely say either yes or no to this inquiry?
47314Can we know our own Personality or that of others?--or any Thing in itself?
47314Can we tell the secret of our own individuality?
47314Can we, if we try, perceive by sense the nerve- currents brainwards, or the sensory which receives and compares them?
47314Can you build a bridge of the same wedges in any other figure?
47314Compared with the painter''s regrets, were mine, I asked, less natural?
47314Compared with this creed, the martyrs of Monotheism were self- loving-- for did not they hope?
47314Darwin et Wallace, d''expliquer la couleur terne de certaines espèces par sélection sexuelle?
47314Did Plato see farther than Herschel could when he burst the barriers of the sky?
47314Did Schelling at any time behold what Hamilton pronounced invisible?
47314Did clouds first descend upon it like a fiery rain- storm?
47314Did not the ancients assert it as a Fact, that the earth stood still, and the stars moved?
47314Did the uninstructed and stammering childhood of our race, separate, in thought, the_ Supernatural_ from surrounding nature?
47314Did water first surround the glowing orb as a heated vapour?
47314Do my young friends guess what will follow?
47314Do we know--_can_ we know any more?
47314Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term?
47314Does any one commit an error unintentionally?
47314Does any one fancy that he sees a solid cube?
47314Does any one feel sure that a death- watch is the servant and interpreter of kitchen timepieces?
47314Does any one wilfully do wrong?
47314Does it rest upon any definite separation in Nature?
47314Does not the apprehension of the Fact imply assumptions which may with equal justice be called Theory and which are perhaps false Theory?
47314Dropped by wild atoms in disorder''d dance?
47314Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind''s throwing?
47314First, for his fiery anathema:--"When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?
47314First, if inscrutable as to its ultimate nature-- its highest essence, and deepest thought,--is it so in its attributes?
47314For from what impression could this idea he derived?...
47314For have they not seen with their own eyes the Sun rise up in the East, ascend to the top of the sky, and go down in the West?
47314For how few of our past actions are there, of which we have any memory?
47314For we ourselves strive to act on_ true_,_ fitting_, and_ reasonable_ grounds of purpose; and shall we think less of Him,"Who teacheth Man knowledge"?
47314For what is there in this subject which should occasion a different conclusion or inference?
47314For, do not writers of fiction deal in probabilities?
47314For, what else is this Dualism but the battle between two Gods of fundamentally distinct natures?
47314From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
47314Further,"If unthinkable, is it absolutely so, or only very difficult to think?"
47314Has Man any faculty of apprehending the Infinite?
47314Has every one here learned the true reason why?
47314Having dispensed, then, with the supernatural, are we necessarily without any religion?
47314He that formed the eye, shall He not see?...
47314Here, again, the real question is, How far is such a distinction maintainable in fact?
47314How can we ascribe to them any sentiments at all?
47314How can we classify without a standard of classification, arrange or connect without threads of connection or arrangement?
47314How do we perceive, hear, see?
47314How else can we maintain our critical consistency?
47314How great is the subjective Element in our perceptions?
47314How is it then that we thus find an Idea which is_ supplied_ by our own minds, but which is_ exemplified_ in every part of the organic world?
47314How many metaphysicians proper, or how many skilled students of Natural Science, can explain that novel compound"Psychoplasm"?
47314How many theorizers seem to justify Sir William Ellis''s old observation, that few of his medical brethren ever got much notion of Mind?
47314How much and what do we see?
47314How otherwise can he certainly allege that the prejudice is not inherent within himself?
47314How then are we to sum up the case?
47314How then should I and any man that lives Be strangers to each other?
47314How, again, could He satisfy the aspirations of earnest but half- hopeless human souls, without gathering them to His presence and to Himself?
47314If A then certainly--_what_?
47314If so, may we not expect much from His hand?
47314If the Universe began in a shining Nebula, the question remains unsolved,--what first brought the thin cloud into being?
47314If the latter,"Is the contradictory also inconceivable?"
47314In other words, is the alkali anything more than a bundle of properties momentarily known to us?
47314In this connection it must likewise be asked with some urgency, what_ non_-Biological reasons there are for preferring Design?
47314Is it not a piece of pleasant bantering, to be equalled only by certain French philosophers?
47314Is it not an obvious corollary, from Mr. Locke''s opinion, that he never was born?
47314Is it produced by our optic instrument or by our mental activity?
47314Is it too presumptuous to suppose that we can thus enter into the Ends and Purposes of the Divine Mind?
47314Is it, after all, an evil, that in some directions we fail to attain certainty by mere thinking?...
47314Is not the charm of one of Plato''s or Aristotle''s definitions, strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
47314Is not this good- humoured?
47314Is the Environment the product of the Organism?
47314Is the Organism purely the product of the Environment?
47314Is the antithesis between Right and Wrong,--the Moral Imperative"Do this and live, transgress and die,"--absolutely and immutably true?
47314Is the great Book of Nature-- the world we live in-- a closed or open book to Man?
47314Is there any possible reason for elevating a death- watch-- thinking in character as a death- watch-- into a capable interpreter of clocks?
47314Is_ this_ or_ that_ particular point a duty;--is it right or wrong;--or is its observance open to debate?
47314It is this:--What reason have we to look for a future life after that hour of dissolution which inevitably awaits us all?
47314Let us at once ask in what light He is thereby represented?
47314Mais cet autre anthropomorphisme par lequel les Darwinistes supposent chez les oiseaux un sens du Beau identique au nôtre, est il plus justifié?
47314Man has no ladder of ascent left him; and why should he wish to climb?
47314May he likewise ask two favours of the intelligent reader; neither of them he trusts unreasonably onerous?
47314May it be permitted its writer to drop the tone of an Essayist, and to say that every word of it has come from his heart?
47314May the spiritual pastor ever become the slayer or the salesman of his flock?
47314May we not, then, presume it impossible to bring worse charges against any argument than whatever can be urged in support of these two accusations?
47314Mr. Carlyle asks,"Do not Books still accomplish_ miracles_, as_ Runes_ were fabled to do?...
47314Must we hence infer the existence of a Cyclops or a Titan?
47314N''en peut- il pas être de même pour la voix criarde de tel ou tel volatile?
47314Next, if Spencer''s special walk in philosophy ends with the bare positing of this Idea, must_ all_ Philosophy do the same?
47314Now, does not this very rigour leave man as hopeless, as if he were altogether without God?
47314Now, what resemblance is here visible?
47314One event befals them both; yet we may ask whether before or after that one event, Man has or can have any preeminence above the beast?
47314Or from an endless chain of causes wrought, And of unthinking substance, born with thought?
47314Or, again, why may not the concomitancies be rather resolved some other way;--_e.g._, Matter( including Brain)= Force= Mind?
47314Our highway and bond of union?
47314Quand la température y eut baissé au degré compatible avec les existences vivantes, ces existences se montrèrent; mais comment?
47314Que deviendront ces masses animées d''un mouvement rapide?
47314Say was the GLORY complete?
47314Serait il absurde de supposer chez certains oiseaux un goût prononcé pour les couleurs sombres, comme ce goût existe chez beaucoup d''hommes?
47314Shall we attribute to a growing width of Thought, the increased breadth of view under which Idealism has of late years been represented?
47314Shall we not regret that the hard, the grim, and the dismal, should characterize our 19th century philosophy?
47314So it might appear to the peculiar mind of the speaker; but how about the mind of him who promulgated the evolution- hypothesis?
47314Some questions inevitable,_ e.g._, What are the first grounds of Truth?
47314Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?
47314The assertor ought in return to be asked one or two questions,_ e.g._,"Do you mean inconceivable to yourself or to the generality of Mankind?"
47314The essential and fundamental inquiry is, whether we are or are not still to have a Religion?
47314The first question is, Does the fact of seeing or the fitness to see raise a moral certainty or very strong probability of Design?
47314The mind creates perspective, how much then may it not create?
47314The more noble the object sought, the more arduous the task and toil,--and what can be nobler than a well- grounded belief in God and Immortality?
47314The question we ask is,--with what_ view_ P became an act?
47314The reply made, answers another question of the deepest interest:--"Are there any conditions under which a Science of Natural Theology is possible?"
47314The righteous clock is indeed genuinely Huxleian, but what shall we say of his mechanical logic, his piano, and his death- watches?
47314The_ comparison_ sets out from this question:--What can merely animal nature do to raise itself?
47314There is not one of the sceptics to whom you have alluded, who would not, if he were asked the question,"What is the use of the eye?"
47314These assertions were made in a University Sermon[70] on the question,"Under what Conditions is a Science of Natural Theology possible?"
47314They live and die and make no sign,--and how can quiet unavowed disbelief obtain a separate place in the columns of the Registrar- General?
47314This, indeed, is inconceivable: and to assert that which is inconceivable, is to talk Nonsense: Is it not?.
47314Thy very hatred, thy very envy, those foolish lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humour: what is all this but an inverted sympathy?
47314To decide this question, is to decide something as to the extent of their_ relativity_; but will any one pronounce their information absolutely true?
47314To the eye of Pure Reason what is he?
47314Was Thurtell the cause or the physical antecedent of Weare''s death?
47314Was he wise or unwise in his disbelief?
47314We ask with some eagerness, how may these things be?
47314We may ask with reason what gain accrues to the statesman by looking at his country''s constitution from this point of sight?
47314We must not ask,"Is there Mind in the natural world?"
47314We see in them movements propagating movements; but then we are obliged to ask, what moved the first of them?
47314We should still have to inquire by what agency and to what purpose we and the All exist?
47314We simply ask how does this food from without, get_ into_ us?
47314Were I a steam- engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me?
47314What beings surround me?
47314What but a mighty hunger for God can explain this weary, unending search for Him?
47314What but the reasoning spirit, the thought and the faith and the feeling?
47314What can the morally impotent or the morally imperfect do for us?
47314What could life be to him?
47314What could reflect, though dimly and faint, the INEFFABLE PURPOSE Which from chaotic powers, Order and Harmony drew?
47314What else can explain the unthanked effort to make plain a path to Him that no man wants to travel?"
47314What experience have we with regard to superior beings?
47314What indeed can seem more_ simply_ true than the admission of a fact?
47314What is He to it?
47314What is Mechanical Law to us?
47314What is it really to us, the earth''s inhabitants?
47314What is responsibility?
47314What is the central spring that moves the strictly human power, and converts it from a sleeping capacity for good, into an acting and living energy?
47314What is the offence of a lamb that we should rear it, and tend it, and lull it into security, for the express purpose of killing it?
47314What its final cause?
47314What meaner eye, then, could ever succeed in piercing the secret architecture of the Universe?
47314What sort of a Power must he finally determine this mind to be?
47314What then becomes of the Absolute ground, or First Cause of all things?
47314What then ought to be the fair and legitimate inference from an issue magnificently tried throughout the celestial universe?
47314What then was the inference Hume himself intended?
47314What was the motive of this act?
47314What wish?"
47314What worth in Man''s body then,--what worth in his soaring mind?
47314What, but the grateful sense, conscious of love and design?
47314What, then, caused it?
47314When impressed by colours, are we conscious of an optic nerve, retina, crystalline lens and other instrumental powers of vision?
47314When we have described all these properties, have we defined the whole substance?
47314Whence drew I being?
47314Where am I, or what?
47314Where can he find or make room for wrong- doing, when impelling Mechanism determines all?
47314Where shall we find the experience required?
47314Which was really groundless-- every- day belief or scepticism?
47314Who can lay down the limits of what our minds create for themselves outside us?
47314Who can reprove the man when he feels and asserts his own moral power, for a belief in Miracles?
47314Who does not remember Sir W. Scott''s lines in the"Lady of the Lake,"on the returning phantoms of early youth,--change, loss, and separation?
47314Who ever yet demonstrated the existence of either?...
47314Who shall limit the right of society except society itself?
47314Who shall persuade him to deny the reasonableness of a Providence following creation?
47314Who, therefore, shall safely predict for us the effects of its proposed discipline?
47314Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread?
47314Why is infinite a negative idea?
47314Why should any philosopher resist this judgment?
47314Why should not the second improvement be a retrogression_ away from_ the ultimate organ now possessed by man, and necessary to his well- being?
47314Why should one natural belief be treated more tenderly than another?...
47314Why then should anybody ignore on their account the great First- Cause?
47314Why, he asks, should the bite of a mad dog have been allowed to produce hydrophobia?
47314Why, let us ask, does Mathematical truth occupy so lofty a position?
47314Why, that is, should the dog''s saliva have been so_ contrived_, as to convey so virulent a blood poison?
47314Why, they ask, should so powerful an instinct dwell in the breast of our race with only a misleading issue?
47314Would any one in any public meeting of scientific men dare to stand up and_ deny_ that there was Mind in Nature?
47314Would he not have urged with the force of truth, that to animalize a Man is to destroy his Manhood, to weaken his judgment and impair his Moral sense?
47314Would not a man without sense of the Beautiful be"colour- blind"to many among the harmonies of Nature?
47314Would that be an aldermanic beetle feast or a_ Resurgam_?
47314Would this surrender of Natural Theology-- or rather of all Theology-- necessitate in reason any_ other_ vast surrender also?
47314Yet in this process,_ what and how much_ would have come within the grasp of a merely sensitive intelligence?
47314Yet what are the conditions or evidences of veracity upon which his and his fellows''present convictions must necessarily repose?
47314Yet, how far do we really know the life throbbing in every pulse?
47314Yet, if we can not_ know_ this first growing- point of our individual life, it may be useful to inquire what can we know_ about_ it?
47314Yet, no primary truth can ever be very simple to man, else why so many conscientious doubters?
47314Yet, who on that account would deny the true sense and delight of poetry, rhythm, and melody?
47314[ 101] Is there, asks Idealistic Scepticism, any outside world at all?
47314[ 103] If these things and others like them are fairly considered, what becomes of our readings in the unclosed book of Nature?
47314[ 149] What then is the true human meaning of this Monistic creed?
47314[ 168] Speculatively considered, what can the weapon commonly called argument do against Idealism?
47314[ 171]"What are the core and essence of this hypothesis?
47314[ t] Weighing these inconsistencies together, shall we say that, in any proper sense, we_ know_ our own selves?
47314_ Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence?_ No.
47314an opponent might fairly ask;"is it not useful so to do?
47314and can any Fact have stronger apparent evidence to justify persons in asserting it emphatically than this had?"
47314and for what end?
47314and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me?
47314and the other, what remained in his thought the province of practical Metaphysique?
47314but"What_ kind_ and_ degree_ of Intelligence do we, from our observation of facts, attribute to the Mind evidenced in the Universe?"
47314for or against Dr. Bastian?
47314how produced?
47314i., p. 148):--"Do you remember, brother,"said Laura,"your wish when you were reading that story in the''Adventurer,''last week?"
47314is not such worship conducive to that noblest final end, the interest of mankind?"
47314or a waste of waters given to divide rivals, as Horace phrases it,"_ Oceano dissociabili_"?
47314or thou scornest it all?
47314par quel procédé?
47314thou canst explain it all?
47314to his descendants?
47314to the world of men if similarly unbelieving?
47314to what period tend?
47314what habits of thought, what previous information, what Ideas does it imply, to conceive the Fact as a Fact?
47314what, but the Soul of the soul?
47314where Wood Pasture and Lake forgotten lie?''
19566And after that?
19566And after that?
19566And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God? 19566 Can thunder from the thirty- two azimuths, repeated daily for centuries, make God''s laws more godlike to me?
19566Has not the French Academy pronounced against the use of quinine and vaccination, against lightning rods and steam engines? 19566 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct you?"
19566I ask, Whence came these properties? 19566 In the year of Christ-- what new Olympiad may be that?"
19566The United States of course means the States of the Achæn League, but on what shore of the Euxine may Mexico and California be found?
19566Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 19566 What right,"says the Pantheist, the Fourierist, the Spiritualist, the Atheist,"what right have you to command me?
19566What, into a prayer- meeting? 19566 Where is the way where light dwelleth, And as for darkness, what is the place thereof?
19566Who is this that covereth up like a_ flood_, whose waters are moved like the rivers? 19566 Why should men throw away their common sense, and swallow everything as inspired?"
19566[ 120] But what do the toiling millions of earth care about beautiful poetic descriptions of a heaven and a hell that have no reality? 19566 [ 125] Now I demand to know whether this testimony of our Lord is not to be believed?
19566[ 349] The nature of light is however still as great a mystery as when Job demanded,Where is the way where light dwelleth?"
19566_ Do we then make void the law through faith? 19566 ''Well,''says I,''do you see me?'' 19566 ***** Reader, is this glorious heaven your inheritance? 19566 466 Must Faith Fade Before Science? 19566 A Christian? 19566 A blasphemer and liar an exemplar of every virtue? 19566 Again, then, whence this idea, and what is it? 19566 Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacles? 19566 And from the inner Adyta-- the invisible shrine of what alone is and endures-- a voice is heard:Hast thou an arm like God?
19566And how did he know that the"I"thought?
19566And if a revelation comes from God, why have we not such evidence for it as mathematical demonstration?"
19566And if a snail, or a worm, can contrive to live now in an unimproved condition, why should its improving cousin die off?
19566And if he could, how many of my most important affairs can I submit to the multiplication table, or lay off in squares and triangles?
19566And if he will never return to inquire whether men obey or disobey his law, who will regard it?
19566And in a few days myself also cease to be?
19566And now[ 1864] who would venture to predict the time of the close of that sad war?
19566And thy own god- created soul, dost thou not call that a revelation?
19566And what is the fuel which feeds these unquenchable fires?
19566And whence are these?
19566And whether he does not directly claim to work miracles by the immediate power of God?
19566And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he saith unto them, Have ye here any meat?
19566And whither shall I flee from thy presence?
19566And why?
19566And your labor for that which satisfieth not?
19566Are Saturn''s rings solid, or liquid?
19566Are the atmospheres of the planets like ours?
19566Are the light and heat of the sun begotten of combustion?
19566Are they all eternal in their present combinations?
19566Are they built of the same material as our planet?
19566Are you looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God?
19566Are you perfectly satisfied of the truth of the New Testament, and willing to venture your eternal salvation upon the words of Christ contained in it?
19566Are you washed from your sins?
19566Are your likes and dislikes, your sentiments and sympathies, your understanding and your will, all brought into subjection to Christ?
19566Aye, and as much more as God is greater than man?
19566Because a gymnast can leap over two horses, can his son leap over three?
19566But do you ever hear any of them use such phrases as"earth rising,"and"earth setting?"
19566But how did man get this extraordinary development of brain, far beyond his necessities?
19566But how does our Infidel geologist set about his work of proving that the earth is any given age, say six thousand millions of years?
19566But how many volumes of this stone book have you perused personally?
19566But how much of it is experimental science_ to you_?
19566But if six generations could thus be born in Syria, or India, in a century, why not in Egypt?
19566But if so, what becomes of the rings of the nebular theory?
19566But it is worth while to inquire, Is science really so positive, and religion so uncertain, as these persons allege?
19566But then comes the great question, What is below the granite?
19566But then it is asked, Is God the Author of an imperfect law?
19566But we demand to know what standard of morals our objectors adopt?
19566But what, it has been asked, is a brief period of 3,000 years, when compared with the geologic ages?
19566But, however fully the atheist may know that matter is eternal, we do not know any such thing, and must be allowed to ask, How do_ you_ know?
19566But, my good sir, how am I to know what kind will suit me?
19566But_ the_ question-- which we marvel beyond measure that the bishop overlooks-- always was, Where did Cain get his wife?
19566By what process of philosophical induction is religion alone put beyond the sphere of faith and hope?
19566CAN WE BELIEVE CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES?
19566CHAPTER V. WHO WROTE THE NEW TESTAMENT?
19566CHAPTER V. Who Wrote the New Testament?
19566Can We Believe Christ and His Apostles?
19566Can intelligences be compounded, or like bricks and mortar, piled upon each other?
19566Can you heartily love and adore a sin- hating, sin- avenging God?
19566Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
19566Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loosen the bands of Orion?
19566Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his seasons?
19566Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his seasons?
19566Canst thou guide Arcturus and his sons?
19566Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
19566Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go And say unto thee,''Here we are?''"
19566Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
19566Canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?
19566Canst_ thou_ set the dominion thereof in the earth?
19566Could God give a defective code of morals?
19566Could I prosecute the toils of study alone, without companion or friend to share my labors?
19566Could the New Testament be Corrupted?
19566Could you, or could any man, have permission to alter the original copy of Washington''s Farewell Address?
19566DID THE WORLD MAKE ITSELF?
19566Did a mass of iron, becoming discontented with its gravity, suddenly metamorphose itself into a cloud of gas, or into a pail of water?
19566Did he know what he was about in making it?
19566Did it contain within itself all the principles of things, all the forces now found in the worlds which grew out of it?
19566Did it go to the sun, or to the moon, or to the pole star, or to this earth?
19566Did it kindle of its own accord?
19566Did its improvement kill it?
19566Did the Council of Nice Make the Bible?
19566Did the World Make Itself?
19566Did the loaves and fishes miraculously multiply in numbers, or increase in size?
19566Did the mist make itself?
19566Did the small potatoes beget the big ones?
19566Did these men tell the truth when they told the world that they did eat and drink with Jesus after he rose from the dead, or did they lie?
19566Did these secure them against the moral government of God?
19566Did this gospel of Christ actually produce any such reformation of their lives?
19566Did you ever study the employment of the saints there?
19566Do they not unanimously denounce geologists and astronomers as heretics, for asserting the vast antiquity of the earth?"
19566Do you ever hear astronomers, in common discourse, use any other language?
19566Do you know any science which has been prosecuted by one- hundredth part of this number of inquirers?
19566Do you know any?
19566Do you mean to say that these are not essential elements of the Old Testament religion?"
19566Do you suppose the world will be turned upside down, and reformed, by a little good advice?
19566Do you think anybody could forge a letter as from me, and impose it on them?
19566Does anybody go to Macaulay to look for the history of the Westminster Assembly, or to Bancroft for an account of the Great Revival in New England?
19566Does he care whether it answers any purpose or not?
19566Does he know what is going on in it?
19566Does it mean just twenty- four hours there?
19566Does not every one know that nothing marvelous ever happened, or, if it did, would any historian trouble himself to record a prodigy?
19566Does the gradation show that the little ones begot the big ones?
19566Does the grave hide forever all that I loved?
19566Every Other Book Inspired?
19566Fill it as full of electricity, magnetism and odyle as you please; do these afford any_ reason_ for its very extraordinary conduct?
19566For still the questions arise, Where did this almighty matter come from?
19566For the effecting of a creation out of nothing?
19566For what cause is the fortune of these countries so strikingly changed?
19566For who can better direct me when I hesitate, or instruct me when I am ignorant?
19566For, if not, of what use is it for you to trouble yourself about the Old Testament?
19566HAVE WE ANY NEED OF THE BIBLE?
19566Had Seth a wife?
19566Had he any object in view in forming it?
19566Had it a mind, and a will, and a perception of propriety?
19566Has he forgotten the straws carried over all Ireland in one night, and the Chupatties of the Indian Mutiny?
19566Has he given me the principle of curiosity, without which such an endowment were useless?
19566Has not Reaumer suppressed Peysonnel''s''Essay on Corals,''because he thought it was madness to maintain their animal nature?
19566Has the Creator of the world common sense?
19566Has the moon an atmosphere?
19566Have We Any Need of the Bible?
19566Have they ceased to be?
19566Have we any testimony on the subject?
19566Have we fifty- seven eternal beings?
19566Have you not willingly remained in ignorance of the contents of the Bible, because you dislike its commands?
19566Have you, in fact, ever seen one in a thousand of these minerals and fossils_ in situ_?
19566He looked at it a moment, and then inquired:"H- h- how do you know it''s A?"
19566He puts forth his energy for what?
19566He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he be not correct?
19566He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
19566He that formed the eye, shall he not see?_ It does not say, he has an eye or an ear, but that he has the knowledge we acquire by those organs.
19566He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
19566He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?
19566Hear him._"What saith Christ, then, respecting the Old Testament?
19566How came the world to be under law without a lawgiver?
19566How can any one imagine a being composed of the sum of all the intelligences of the universe?
19566How can such contradictions be true?
19566How can we accept their code of morals if we refuse to believe them when they speak of matters of fact?
19566How could Noah and his three sons build a ship larger than the Great Eastern?
19566How could an eternal red heat cool down?
19566How could the chemical actions of dead matter infuse vitality into the first germ, or bud of a plant?
19566How did he know that there was an"I"to think?
19566How did he stumble over it without record of his misadventure?
19566How did they all get religion?
19566How did they come to do so?
19566How did they come to receive them in this manner?
19566How did they get it so suddenly?
19566How did they get so much of it?
19566How does he prove that mud was deposited at just the same rate then as now?
19566How does it happen that this singular people is dispersed over all the earth, and yet distinct and unamalgamated with any other?
19566How does the Infidel account for it?
19566How happens it then that the human race has of a sudden waked up to such a strange sense of the folly of idolatry and the value of religion?
19566How many of the nine hundred and forty- two substances treated of in Turner''s Chemistry have you analyzed?
19566How much of this fourth part have geologists been able to examine?
19566How now, from this word being used by Moses, could this learned bishop conclude that he necessarily meant to describe the globe?
19566How should they?--treating of different countries, and for the most part of different periods, and writing civil and not church history?
19566How would you like to have a fish for your forefather?
19566How, then, can philosophers ever learn the process of building worlds like our own in which many other powers are at work?
19566How, then, is the nerve to be protected, and yet the sight not obstructed?
19566I ask her whence I came?
19566I inquire what I am?
19566I says to him,''Look here, stranger, do you see that tavern there?''
19566IS GOD EVERYBODY, AND EVERYBODY GOD?
19566IS THE GOSPEL FACT OR FABLE?
19566If I am able, by my own reason, to construct a perfect standard of morals to judge the Bible by, what need have I for the Bible revelation?
19566If he possessed no divine authority, what right has he to control your inclination or mine?
19566If it had not, where did it get them?
19566If it is any one of them, where did the others come from?
19566If its top reaches not to heaven, can it make a ladder long enough to carry us there?
19566If man is the highest intelligence in the universe, to whom should he render an account of his conduct?
19566If not, how did attraction, and repulsion, vegetable life, animal life, intellect, and free will, work themselves into that cloud of homogeneous gas?
19566If so, how came they there?
19566If the soul of man is the highest intelligence in the universe, did the soul of man create, or does the soul of man govern it?
19566If they could, did these finite intelligences create themselves?
19566If they were not, where did they come from?
19566If they were, how did they escape being burnt to ashes?
19566If_ create_, and_ make_, and_ form_, have all the same meaning, why use them all in the same verse?
19566In short, how are we to make the chemical materials live?
19566In short, is it a genuine book, or merely a collection of myths with the apostles''names appended to them by some lying monks?
19566In the division of the property,_ what became of the mind_?
19566Is God Everybody, and Everybody God?
19566Is Jesus the Christ the Son of the Living God, or a deceiver?"
19566Is Jesus the Messiah of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write?
19566Is a peach- tree just like a horse- chestnut, or a scrub- oak, or a honey- locust?
19566Is it a fact, or a forgery?
19566Is it a true history or a lying romance?
19566Is it because you perceive they lead to results which you dislike?
19566Is it credible that an impostor would direct his forgery to be publicly read?
19566Is it credible that they would allow them to be altered and corrupted?
19566Is it iron, or sulphur, or clay, or oxygen?
19566Is it possible he could make such a beast of himself in such a short time?"
19566Is it possible then that these converted heathens did really even approach this standard of morality?
19566Is it uniform, or like our atmosphere, ever varying?
19566Is it your daily prayer, Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly?
19566Is not the abundance of quack doctors conclusive proof of the existence of disease, and of the need of physicians?
19566Is that the Infidel''s notion of virtue?
19566Is the Gospel Fact or Fable?
19566Is the fire that heated it burning still, or is it exhausted for want of fuel?
19566Is the religious appetite the only one for which God has provided no supply?
19566Is this Book genuine or a forgery?
19566Is this unchangeable Jehovah your God?
19566Is your ignorance the measure of God''s wisdom?
19566Is your mind purified from your carnal notions?
19566It can not deviate from its fated course of proceeding; therefore, says the Pantheist, why should I pray?
19566It gives no answer to the questions, How did it get to be so hot, while all the space around it was so cold?
19566It is high, I can not attain unto it; Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
19566It is not, Did Christ reveal more than Moses?
19566Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
19566Let the unbeliever, then, be asked, Is there no truth in prophecy?--no reality in religion?"
19566Mankind, it seems, will have a Church and a Bible of some sort; why not go to work and make a Church and a Bible of their own?
19566Matthew Poole says:"Where was the need of overwhelming those regions of the earth in which there were no human beings?
19566May not the life of the nation be as liable to accidents and diseases as that of the individual?
19566Nay, is there a letter in your own, or in any other alphabet, that was not originally a picture of something?
19566Now if man can thus control and use the laws of nature for human purposes, why can not the God who made him so cunning do as much?
19566Now that is certainly a remarkable fact, and all the more remarkable if we inquire, How came it so?
19566Now what are the facts given to solve the problem of the earth''s age?
19566Now what is the cause of this remarkable conversion of prince, priests, and people?
19566Now, I demand to know whether they are aware that the earth''s rotation on its axis is the cause of day and night?
19566Now, if so, why winnow such chaff?
19566Now, if this was a falsehood, what motive had they to tell it?
19566Now, we are tempted to ask, Who are these wonderful prodigies, so incapable of receiving instruction from anybody?
19566Of what possible use would the Christian code of morals be without the authority of Christ, the lawgiver?
19566Of what, then, do they consist?
19566One- half?
19566One- tenth?
19566Or are they all eternal?
19566Or canst thou guide Arcturus, with his sons?
19566Or do they signify the orderly and regular sequence of cause and effect, which is so manifest in the course of all events?
19566Or do you shrink back in terror or dislike from God''s denunciations of wrath against the wicked?
19566Or how could any such argument be founded on a basis so little extended?
19566Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
19566Or is the veracity of Baillie, or Edwards suspected, because political history does not concern itself much about religion?
19566Or shall my soul exist under God''s frowns, or perish under his just sentence, even as my body perishes?
19566Or what does it signify to you or me, reader, that the Bible raises its head far above the other cedars of earthly literature?
19566Or who would have any right to call him to account?
19566Or, if some wiseacre did prepare such a book, would it be very useful to children?
19566Or, if variable, is the variation caused by the original difference of the projectile force of the different suns, stars, comets, etc.?
19566Our text ascribes for him perception and intelligence:_ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
19566Perhaps some one is ready to ask, What is the use of so many lenses in the eye?
19566Reason asks herself, Will God be always thus angry with me?
19566SCIENCE, OR FAITH?
19566Science or Faith?
19566Shall I always feel these pangs of remorse for my sins?
19566Shall we adore his soul?
19566Shall we ever meet again?
19566Shall we then adore the souls of Kepler and Newton?
19566So that the question is not, Did God give as full and expanded instructions to the Church in her infancy as he has given in her maturity?
19566State the Question Sharply-- Why?
19566Strange questions you will say; yet we need to ask a stranger question: Had the world a Creator, or did it make itself?
19566Suppose we ask, Could God speak Hebrew-- a language so defective in philosophical terms?
19566Take away the moral sanction of law, and the sacredness of oaths, and what basis have you left for any government, save the point of the bayonet?
19566Take away the persons, and of what value are the things?
19566That of the ancient oriental world in which Israel lived?
19566The boy eyed the A for a moment and then asked:"H- h- how do you know but he l- l- lied?"
19566The grand question is: How does the protoplasm become alive?
19566The inner nature of the cannibal and of the Rationalist is the same-- whence comes the difference of character and conduct?
19566The other prophecy referred to by Von Hammer is as follows:"Have you heard of a city of which one side is land, the two others sea?
19566The question is whether reason can accept the fact, though science can not even imagine the process?
19566The question is, Can we believe them?
19566The question then is simply this, Was Jesus really the Divine Person he claimed to be, or was he a blasphemous impostor?
19566Then I demand of you,"What more could either God or man do to convince you of their truthfulness?"
19566Then how came they to get together at all, and particularly how did they put themselves in their present shapes?
19566Then why is it any cooler now?
19566These arguments from ignorance need no other answer than the questions, Do you know how the sun shines at all?
19566This is the book about which we make our present inquiry, Who wrote it?
19566Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?"
19566Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
19566Unbeliever, are you prepared to meet him there, and prove him a perjured impostor?
19566Unpopular, pure, and penniless, if the gospel story were not true, how could it have had preachers?
19566Very well, what time was that?
19566W.?"
19566WAS YOUR MOTHER A MONKEY?
19566Was Your Mother a Monkey?
19566Was it red hot enough from all eternity to melt granite?
19566Was it so from eternity?
19566We are not in search of the literary beauty or poetic inspiration of the Bible; but we inquire by what right does it command our obedience?
19566We can not avoid asking with as much gravity as we can command, Where did the mist come from?
19566We say to our would- be philosophers, When you tell us that matter is eternal, how does that account for the formation of this world?
19566We sell our property for bank- bills, but who dare say they will ever be paid in specie?
19566We want to know why they think so?
19566Well, how did they lose their hair?
19566Well, then, what science have we gained of the mysteries of our origin?
19566Well, then, your grandmother?
19566Were the germs of all the plants and animals in it while it was blazing at a white heat?
19566Were the order of nature such as Lamarck describes, how could any man logically infer the birth descent of each of its classes from the next below?
19566Were the peasantry of Europe improved by the wars of the French Revolution?
19566Were the survivors of the Irish famine of 1847, or those of the Persian, or Bengali famines improved by their struggle for life?
19566Were you ever within a thousand miles of the proper positions for making such observations?
19566What are these?
19566What conclusions are we to draw as to the comfort or habitability of a system depending for its supply of light and heat on such an uncertain source?
19566What concord hath Christ with Belial?
19566What could that be?
19566What has become of so many productions of the hand of man?
19566What has become of those ages of abundance and of life?
19566What information could Aristotle gather from the record that,"In 1857, the Transatlantic Telegraph was in operation?"
19566What is its nature, density, power of refraction and reflection of light, and resistance to motion?
19566What is its temperature?
19566What is the power by which they are started in directions which are not determined by their primitive nature?
19566What is the use of the aqueous humor and the vitreous humor?
19566What is this matter you speak of?
19566What melted it down into a fluid state, fit to be splashed about?
19566What origin can we ascribe to these sudden flashes and relapses?
19566What this attribute with which I endow material laws, and raise them into_ forces_?
19566What, then, does this philosophic inspector of entrails, and adorer of idols, call an excessive superstition and culpable obstinacy?
19566What, then, is this multiform universe?
19566What, then, must the lives of the vulgar have been?
19566What, then, must the state of the people of the vanquished countries have been?
19566When they give us their oracles as if they were known truths, we are compelled to ask, How do you know?
19566Where are the Christians of Sardis?
19566Where are they now?
19566Where did the angel get the flour to bake the cake for Elijah?
19566Where did the comet come from?
19566Where did the fire come from?
19566Where is there the least allusion here to any controlling influence of the stars?
19566Where will it go last of all?
19566Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
19566Wherefore this difference?
19566Which has been confirmed by one- thousandth part of this number of experimenters?
19566Who can tell that ignorance, and wickedness, and wretchedness are not as tightly tied together in the world to come, as we see them here?
19566Who endowed it with these wonderful potencies?
19566Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?
19566Who put the fire and mist together?
19566Who was his doctor?
19566Who was his nurse?
19566Who were his most constant visitors and sympathizers?
19566Why are so many cities destroyed?_ Why is not that ancient population reproduced and perpetuated?
19566Why are so many cities destroyed?_ Why is not that ancient population reproduced and perpetuated?
19566Why do ye not understand my speech?
19566Why may not men be as selfish, and filthy, and grasping, and murderous in the other world, as they are in this?
19566Why may not the course of nature be as fatal to the sinner''s prosperity there as it is here?
19566Why should religious predictions be attributed to a different power?
19566Why so?
19566Why, then, you ask, did they not all become Christians?
19566Will misery follow me forever, as I see and feel that it does here?
19566Would I study eternally with no object, and for no use; none to be benefited, none to be gratified by my discoveries?
19566Would not any school- boy laugh at the absurdity of attempting such a problem?
19566Would not the man who should attempt such sacrilege be torn in a thousand pieces?
19566Would such appeals have been suffered to pass uncontradicted had the statements of the apostles been false?
19566Would you profess yourself competent to take even the preliminary observation for fixing the instruments for such a reckoning?
19566Would your benevolence lead you to deal alike with the righteous and the wicked; and to abhor the thought of destroying them that destroy the earth?
19566You simply ask if this be a true copy of the laws passed by the legislature and signed by the governor?
19566[ 127] Does any one believe that the vegetable fiber and maple twigs have kept their shape one hundred thousand years?
19566[ 12] Cited by Hodge in"What is Darwinism?"
19566[ 2] Now, which of these is the eterna- matter you speak of?
19566[ 328] Who knows how many ships were run ashore by that error?
19566[ 343] Now what feeds these enormous fires?
19566[ 350] Is the velocity of light uniform?
19566_ Did the World Make Itself?_[ 226] Genesis, chap.
19566_ Understand, ye brutish among the people; And, ye fools, when will ye be wise?
19566an impostor a model man?
19566and can we in time breed a man who will leap to the moon?
19566and his son over five?
19566and his son over four?
19566and how small seems to be the area of stratification which they have explored?
19566and to the teeth of the very men who put him to death?
19566but, Did Christ contradict Moses?
19566but, Did he give instructions of a different character?
19566can we not believe our Lord''s testimony, that he cast out devils, and raised the dead, by the direct intervention of God?
19566from whence proceed such melancholy revolutions?
19566her grandmother?
19566in the temple, the most public place of resort of the Jews who saw him crucified?
19566or by the different media through which it passes?
19566or does it seem less offensive, or more likely to you to go back some thousands of years, and say your forefathers were apes?
19566or is it only the single elements that are eternal?
19566tell me,"cried the dying man,"where will it go last of all?"