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" I saw that though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation... "
Texas School Journal - Page 42
1905
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Strivings for the faith: a ser. of lects. delivered under the auspices of ...

Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
...is formed by circumstances, our own •desires can do much to shape those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the •doctrine...real power over the formation of our own character: that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities...
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Strivings for the Faith: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in the New Hall of ...

Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1874 - 312 pages
...character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine...real power over the formation of our own character: that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities...
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Strivings for the Faith: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in the New Hall of ...

Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1875 - 314 pages
...character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine...real power over the formation of our own character : that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities...
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The Theological Review, Volume 12

Christianity - 1875 - 620 pages
...those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free-will, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capacities...
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Moral Causation: Or, Notes on Mr. Mill's Notes to the Chapter on 'Freedom ...

Patrick Proctor Alexander - Free will and determinism - 1875 - 280 pages
...circum' stances ; and that what is really inspiriting and enno' bling in the doctrine of free-will, is the conviction that ' we have real power over the formation of our own ' character ; that our will, by influencing some of our ' circumstances, can modify our future habits or capa'...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 25

Literature - 1875 - 1012 pages
...those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character ; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits and capacities...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 28

Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...those circumstances, and that which is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free-will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character ; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capacities...
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Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life: With Chapters on Its Prevention

Daniel Hack Tuke - Insanity - 1878 - 282 pages
...which John Stuart Mill said of character is true, in degree, of tendencies to mental derangement—" What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine...real power over the formation of our own character." The exercise of volition will always increase its force, and every time persons forcibly control automatic...
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Christian evidence lectures

Christian evidence society - 1879 - 316 pages
...character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances ; and that what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine...real power over the formation of our own character : that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities...
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Ingersoll's New Departure

David Swing, Frederick Courtney - 1880 - 128 pages
...circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances, and that what is really inspiring and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the...real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify some of our future habits or capabilities...
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