Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matters pertaining to religion
Author: Theodore ParkerThe Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion
Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Works of Theodore Parker: The world of matter and the spirit of man
Author: Theodore ParkerA Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494153533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1863 Edition.
The Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons of religion
Author: Theodore ParkerThe Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholar
Author: Theodore ParkerCentenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]: A discourse of matters pertaning to religion. v.2. Theism atheism and the popular theology. v.3. Sermons of religion. [v.14] Saint Bernard and other papers
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Author: Theodore ParkerThe Works of Theodore Parker
Author: Theodore ParkerPublisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458909367
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in OF JUSTICE AND THE CONSCIENCE Turn and do justice.?Tobit xiii. 6. Everywhere in the world there is a natural law, that is a constant mode of action, which seems to belong to the nature of things, to the constitution of the universe; this fact is universal. In different departments we call this mode of action by different names, as the law of matter, the law of mind, the law of morals, and the like. We mean thereby a certain mode of action which belongs to the material, mental, or moral forces, the mode in which commonly they are seen to act, and in which it is their ideal to act always. The ideal laws of matter we only know from the fact that they are always obeyed; to us the actual obedience is the only witness of the ideal rule, for in respect to the conduct of the material world the ideal and the actual are the same. The laws of matter we can learn only by observation and experience. We cannot divine them and anticipate, or know them at all, unless experience supply the facts of observation. Before experience of the fact, no man could foretell that a falling body would descend sixteen feet the first second, twice that the next, four times the third, and sixteen times the fourth. The law of falling bodies is purely obj ective to us; no mode of action in our consciousness anticipates this rule of action in the outer world. The same is true of all the laws of matter. The ideal law is known because it is a fact. The law is imperative; it must be obeyedwithout hesitation. In the solar system, or the composition of a diamond, no margin is left for any oscillation of disobedience; margins of oscillation there always are, but only for vibration as a function, not as the refusal of a function. Only the primal will of God works in the material world, no secondary finite wi...