 | Simon Varey - 1990 - 240 pages
...Atheism' (1613) Francis Bacon said he preferred to believe 'all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is...convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.'60 Later, opponents of Epicureanism and advocates of the design argument were similarly certain... | |
 | Richard Hazelett, Dean Turner - 1990 - 456 pages
...personal caring can conceivably come to be improved upon.23 6 The Two Levels of Ethical Motivation A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon A .BRAHAM LINCOLN was a voracious reader of serious books, and the anecdotal lore told... | |
 | Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson, Denys Wilkinson - 1991 - 244 pages
...of things and our presence within it all, it is natural to contemplate God. As Francis Bacon says: A little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism;...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. * But it is not easy to say what a physicist, as a physicist, means by God; when one mentions God one... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 1993 - 268 pages
...atheist. That master of prose wrote: Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's, that "a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." . . . [Atheists] yearn mightily in their own souls after the religious acceptance of a world interpreted... | |
 | Susan Orr - 1995 - 268 pages
...begins by siding rather forcefully with the belief in divine order and providence. He acknowledges that "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. . . ."59 The entire essay is an attempt to persuade the reader that philosophy is harmless, that it... | |
 | Rose-Mary Sargent - 1995 - 374 pages
...religion ." Cf. Bacon, The Essayes or Counsels, Civil and Morall, essay 16, "Of Atheism," where he wrote that "a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" (Works of Bacon 12: 1 32). 44. Boyle, Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, pt. 1, essay 5, in Works 2:... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pages
...Nothing Bacon wrote on religion should be taken seriously, wrote JA Naigeon. The famous remark, he said, that 'a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion' had clearly been written in a fit of mental aberration. Nevertheless, Naigeon conceded, profound and... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 pages
...Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's, that "a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned the sage epigram ... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth... | |
 | Richard Ingalese, Isabella Ingalese - 1996 - 284 pages
...Free: 888-844-2386 www.heallhresearchbooks.com Walking Press New York DEDICATED TO ALL LOVERS OF TRUTH "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." — BACON. PREFACE The seven lessons in philosophy, contained in this book, were prepared for our more... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...is but the handmaid to religion.6 In his treatise entitled, Of Atheism, Sir Francis Bacon declared: A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.7 Sir Francis Bacon, as recorded in the Literary and Religious Works of Francis Bacon, Volume... | |
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HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
