The Oracle of Reason; Or, Philosophy Vindicated ...T. Paterson, 1842 - Atheism |
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absurd abuse animals answer argument assertion Atheist believe better bible bigot blasphemy body called cause CHARLES SOUTHWELL Chartist Cheltenham Christian church declared defend deism Deists deity deny devil divine doctrine earth editor error eternal evidence evil existence fact faith FAITH'S EMPIRE fear feel folly friends G. J. HOLYOAKE GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE godism gods happiness holy honest honour human idea ignorance imprisonment Infidel intelligence Jew Book justice kind knowledge liberty ligion lord Mackintosh matter means ment mental mind moral nature never notion object opinion Oracle of Reason Owen party persecution persons Philosophy Vindicated phrenologists prejudices present priests principle prove question religion religious remarks RICHARD CARLILE Robert Owen sense SLAVES Social Socialists society soul speak spirit superstition supposed teach tell things THOMAS PATERSON thought tion true truth universe virtue wisdom word worship write
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Page 378 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 386 - there was no matter," And proved it — 'twas no matter what he said : They say his system 'tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head ; And yet who can believe it ? I would shatter Gladly all matters down to stone or lead, Or adamant, to find the world a spirit, And wear my head, denying that I wear it...
Page 390 - ... receded from my view, and lessened in the distance, during the ten memorable days we passed on that Enchanted Ground! What voices spoke from out the thundering water; what faces, faded from the earth, looked out upon me from its gleaming depths; what Heavenly promise glistened in those angels...
Page 383 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 390 - It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked — Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright green water ! — that it came upon me in its full might and majesty. Then when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one — install!
Page 264 - Eye* hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him...
Page 99 - That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 86 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 379 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 380 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person.