Select lectures comprising some of the more valuable lectures delivered before Y.M.C.A. - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150038683 ISBN 13: 9781150038686

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1856 Excerpt: ... SELECT LECTURES. IX. timnttdun Mtotm Sam, fiterafore, tmb Religion. BY KEV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DJLITISBD IIIORI THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, IN 1X1(11 BALL, LONDON, IN THE WINTER COURSE OF 1847-8. TV Samt, literate, anij $elipn.--» THE subject of the following lecture is one which may be considered too wide and vast for a single lecture. Volumes might be worthily occupied in treating of the various and intimate relations in which science, literature, and religion stand to each other. Indeed, the great problem of philosophy is so to fix our stand-point, those three diverging from, and meeting in the spokes from an axle, constituting one who various colors constitute one light. Till this be done, there is too much truth in the murmur of the splenetic, that science has hitherto been but scratching at the door of nature; literature dreaming, and religion doting; and that, with all our arts and sciences, our logic and metaphysics, our philosophy resides in the future, instead of the past. I propose to bring before you to-night a few of the more simple aspects of the subject, principally for the purpose of proving, that there is at least a distinct approximation toward such a union; and, that such a union may be the subject of rational and general hope--the bright bridal of a future day. We can not cast a bridge between Ayr and Arran, between Dover and but it is much if we believe that some god or Our leading propositions then are: 1. Science, literature, and religion, are connected or related in their nature. 2. They are conneoted in tendency and effeot. 3. They have been connected in the examples of many illustrious individuals. 4. They are, to a certain extent, connected in God's special revelation. 5. The greatest evils have been produced by the...

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• ISBN 10: 1150038683
• ISBN 13: 9781150038686
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese