The Sociological Value of ChristianityA. and C. Black, 1912 - 285 pages |
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Page ii - AGENTS AMERICA . . THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA . . THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.
Page 209 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 15 - Israel marks a beginning in this direction, the deity of the time of the later prophets appears possessed of more humanitarian sentiments than those attributed to the old relentless Yahveh, whose Ten Commandments represent him as a "jealous god...
Page 167 - Si quis venit ad me, et non odit patrem suum, et matrem, et uxorem, et filios, et fratres, et sorores, adhuc autem et animam suam, non potest meus esse discipulus.
Page xv - La conception de l'idéal n'est-elle pas encore la faculté, reflet de l'infini, qui, en présence de la beauté, nous porte à imaginer une beauté supérieure? La science et la passion de comprendre sont-elles autre chose que l'effet de l'aiguillon du savoir que met en notre âme le mystère de l'univers? Où sont les vraies sources de la dignité humaine, de la liberté et de la démocratie moderne, sinon dans la notion de l'infini devant laquelle tous les hommes sont égaux?
Page 128 - Non legistis quia qui fecit hominem ab initio, masculum et feminam fecit eos, et dixit : „Propter hoc dimittet homo patrem et matrem et adhaerebit uxori suae, et erunt duo in carne una" ? Itaque iam non sunt duo, sed una caro.
Page 167 - Surget gens contra gentem et regnum adversus regnum; (11) terraemotus magni erunt per loca et pestilentiae et fames terroresque de caelo et signa magna erunt.
Page 99 - The word is nigh thee." He who responds will meet persecution — as have those before him, as did Christ. He will know pain and disappointment. He will not transform the world. But he will become one of those who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Page 175 - Si quis in me non manserit: mittetur foras sicut palmes, et arescet, et colligent eum, et in ignem mittent, et ardet.
Page 14 - Religion, therefore, the argument proceeds, is the instrument whereby the sacrifice of individual interests to social interests is obtained. Only quite secondarily, from the point of view of its conception, and quite subsequently, from the point of view of its historical development, does religion minister to individual needs.