... fraternity-men, the non-Greeks (perhaps half or more of the college), are distinguished as " barbarians ". Membership in a fraternity is supposed to mark a mystical bond of union — with a corresponding exclusion. At any rate it is the man's fraternity... Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of Life - Side 64af Warner Fite - 1925 - 320 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Percy Greg - 1883 - 384 sider
...self-deception, partly partisanship. They see how powerful an argument with the great majority is the belief that if God did not exist we should have to invent Him ; and they affirm that they do not miss Him in order to. persuade others that He need not exist.' Sterne.... | |
| Alfred Egmont Hake - 1896 - 340 sider
...new standard or authority, even if invented now. Recognising the truth in Voltaire's flippant saying, that if God did not exist we should have to invent Him, we do not, as the superstitious scientists do, first abolish Him and then re-invent Him in the clumsy... | |
| Voltaire - 1905 - 226 sider
...believe in the Deity but the quality of his religious faith is sufficiently revealed in his saying that "if God did not exist we should have to invent him." In Zadig we have Voltaire in his most edifying mood, and in the closing chapters he actually seems... | |
| Sir Charles Waldstein - 1919 - 260 sider
...features, though modified, as it will also be strengthened by these modifications. Voltaire's words, "that if God did not exist we should have to invent Him, " most fully apply to the institution of marriage. The destructive wave of criticism, which, from the... | |
| Hugh Edward Millington Stutfield - 1921 - 280 sider
...in homreopathic doses, and by experienced practitioners : like the French cynic, they are of opinion that, if God did not exist, we should have to invent Him. Authority still tries to placate Labour by promising that it will be recompensed hereafter for its... | |
| Warner Fite - 1926 - 296 sider
...exclusion. At any rate it is the man's fraternity that chiefly determines his social affiliations. authority is therefore the authority of the Laws of...are to have social order) we must have authority. §17 And so beneath "authority" we may read utility, or social convenience. But if social convenience... | |
| 1927 - 540 sider
...MANUFACTURING "THE EXPERIENCE OF GOD " BY THEODORE SCHROEDER " Profound, indeed, is the suggestion of Voltaire that if God did not exist we should have to invent him ! So whether he exists or not we have invented ideas of him, not deliberately to be sure, but by vital... | |
| Charles Walston - 1919 - 264 sider
...features, though modified, as it will also be strengthened by these modifications. Voltaire's words, "that if God did not exist we should have to invent Him, " most fully apply to the institution of marriage. The destructive wave of criticism, which, from the... | |
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