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The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy - Page 213
by William James - 1896 - 332 pages
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Proceedings of the ... Summer Meeting of the ..., Volume 8, Parts 1909-1912

American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - Deaf - 1909 - 398 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall." Granting, then, that religion is essential in order to bring out the best qualities in an individual,...
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The Monist, Volume 1

Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1891 - 734 pages
...day. Concrete ethics cannot be final because they have to wait on metaphysics The final conclusion is that the stable and systematic moral universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands. If he now...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1894 - 500 pages
...face I tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall" tion. The former need not detain us long ; the latter will require more careful consideration. The...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1894 - 488 pages
...joyously faoe tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...religious faith. For this reason the strenuous type <<" character will, on the battle-field of human history, always outwear the easy-going type, and religion...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1895 - 484 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy am1 endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...outwear the easy-going type, and religion will drive irrcligion to the wall." of Naturalism and from that of Transcendentalism, or from that of empirical...
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The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James - Faith - 1896 - 364 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands. If such...
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The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 360 pages
...handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. For this reason the strenu- ous type of character will on the battle-field of human'...wall. It would seem, too, — and this is my final conclu- .] sion, — that the stable and systematic moral universe ( for which the ethical philosopher...
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The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 406 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...those who have religious faith. For this reason the strenu-i ous type of character will on the battle-field of human history always outwear the easy-going...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1898 - 512 pages
...Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free 1n those who have religious faith. For this reason the...type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall." the result of a misinterpretation of that theory. Here, as elsewhere, the theological consequence is...
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A Study of Ethical Principles

James Seth - Ethics - 1898 - 528 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...this reason the strenuous type of character will, oa the battle-field of human history, always outwear the easy-going type, and religion will drive irreligion...
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