Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. A Compendium of American Literature - Page 87by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 740 pagesFull view - About this book
| Harmon Kingsbury - Sabbath legislation - 1841 - 394 pages
...religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." It is said ef Washington,... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...them. A volume could not trace all their connection with private and public felicity. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation,...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion ot religious principles. It is substantially... | |
| England - 1842 - 538 pages
...politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them.' ' And let us,' he further adds, ' with caution indulge the supposition that morality...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.' Words worthy to be... | |
| Ezra Stiles Gannett - Political Science - 1842 - 56 pages
...politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them." " And let us," he further adds, " with caution indulge the supposition that morality...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Words worthy to be... | |
| Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - Education - 1842 - 586 pages
...on the steps of the Amphitheatre were the songs of musicians and the sounds of accompanying flutes." morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."* 2. We need an intellectual... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if a sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which...can prevail, in exclusion of religious principles." In maintaining the importance of religious education, before the Supreme Court of the United States,... | |
| Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserf, the oaths which are the instruments of investigation...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true,... | |
| Rhode Island - Law - 1844 - 612 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail, in exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1841 - 254 pages
...felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if a sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which...can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. "Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.... | |
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