 | Church congress - 1881 - 692 pages
...Healer of souls ; and to listen for that Voice which through succeeding generations echoes on acrossthis sin-wasted world ; — " I am He that liveth and was...Penitentiary Work, this same tendency is everywhere observableThe various schemes that are rife for the remedy of spiritual evil put forward indeed, for... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1881 - 626 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pages
...— that dim future, that year by year loses its hold over the minds of men. There can be no doubt that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin ; and it is imperative upon those that direct mankind that he be not left compassless and rudderless... | |
 | Science - 1883 - 902 pages
...were preparatory — to find a scientific basis for the principles of good and bad in action. "Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 350 pages
...Divine glory. Such is the profession of one of its champions : — "Now," says Mr. Herbert Spencer, "that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative." 1 Against such principles we have an impregnable... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...world—that dim future that, year by year, loses its hold over the minds of men. There can be no doubt that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, and it is imperative upon those who direct mankind that man be not left compasslesa and rudderless... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Bible - 1883 - 348 pages
...Ethics." In view, now, of the fact that — according to Mr. Spencer's belief, and in his language — "moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin," this author holds that the "secularization of morals is becoming imperative." What Mr. Spencer means,... | |
 | Malcolm Guthrie - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1884 - 148 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | Apologetics - 1886 - 436 pages
...but says, " The establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is imperative." (Preface DE, vi.) The " sacred origin of moral injunctions... | |
 | William Henry Platt - Supernatural - 1886 - 374 pages
...but says, " The establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is imperative." (Pref. Data of Ethics, vi). The "sacred origin of moral injunctions"... | |
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I am the more anxious to indicate in outline, if I cannot complete, this final work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now, that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed... 
