 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...worse than the disease. OF ATHEISM. I 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 miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...sixteenth essay, which is " Of Atheism," " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is...works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy inclines man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for... | |
 | John Hayward - 1836 - 168 pages
...nothing without a clear demonstration of it." Lord Bacon remarks, that " a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...after death.—JJ Rousseau. 1124. I 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 a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | John Evans, James Hews Bransby - 1841 - 398 pages
...true remedy for insanity. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, remarks, that " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | John Hayward - 1842 - 444 pages
...nothing without a clear demonstration of it." Lord Bacon remarks, that " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...the language of Bacon and say, " I 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 miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it" — and I would add, " such works... | |
 | John Evans - 1844 - 300 pages
...parts of Europe. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, justly remarks, that " a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...than that of any other science, affords a > striking verification of the truth of Lord Bacon's remark, that " a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." As yet, however, it must have been perceived, the cosmogony of Moseb, properly so called, has not engaged... | |
 | John Hayward - 1845 - 458 pages
...nothing without a clear demonstration of it." Lord Bacon remarks, that " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
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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. 
