The Bible: Its Influence, Its Relations to Republican Government, and Its Necessity as a Text-book of Ethics in the Public SchoolsCubery & Company, pub., 1876 - 72페이지 |
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9 페이지 - Go to Italy: decay, degradation, suffering meet you on every side. Commerce droops, agriculture sickens, the useful arts languish. There is a heaviness in the air ; you feel cramped by some invisible power ; the people dare not speak aloud ; they walk slowly ; an armed soldiery is around their dwellings; the armed police take from the stranger his Bible before he enters the territory. Ask for the Bible in the bookstores ; it is not there, or in a form so large and expensive as to be beyond the reach...
47 페이지 - To catch thy gaze, and uttering graceful words To charm thy ear; while his sly imps, by stealth, Twine round thee threads of steel, light thread on thread That grow to fetters; or bind down thy arms With chains concealed in chaplets.
13 페이지 - Spain, cleanliness, order, learning, and refinement took the place of their opposites. When smitten with disease, the Christian peasant resorted to a shrine, the Moorish one to an instructed physician. The Arabs encouraged translations from the Greek philosophers, but not from the Greek poets. They turned in disgust " from the lewdness of our classical mythology, and denounced as an unpardonable blasphemy all...
9 페이지 - Rousseau, and Voltaire. But pass over the Alps into Switzerland, and down the Rhine into Holland, and over the channel to England and Scotland, and what an amazing contrast meets the eye ! Men look with an air of independence ; there are industry, neatness , instruction for children. Why this difference? There is no brighter sky — there are no fairer scenes of nature — but they have the Bible ; and happy are the people who are in such a case, for it is righteousness that exalteth a nation.
9 페이지 - ... armed police take from the stranger his Bible, before he enters the territory. Ask for the Bible in the bookstores; it is not there, or in a form so large and expensive as to be beyond the reach of the common people. The preacher takes no text from the Bible. Enter the Vatican, and inquire for a Bible, and you will be pointed to some case, where it reposes among prohibited books, side by side with the works of Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire.
8 페이지 - After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed by the nations of Europe, the most distinguished portion of human kind in arts and learning as well as in arms.
5 페이지 - Tell me where the Bible is, and where it is not, and I will write a moral geography of the world. I will show what, in all particulars, is the physical condition of that people.
50 페이지 - ... common faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth to become food for worms. Such is the fate which so soon awaits him who has been called the Great Napoleon.
9 페이지 - I will show what, in all particulars, is the physical condition of that people. One glance of your eye will inform you where the Bible is, and where it is not. Go to Italy: decay, degradation, suffering meet you on every side. Commerce droops, agriculture sickens, the useful arts languish. There is a heaviness in the air ; you feel cramped by some invisible...
58 페이지 - ... truth and virtue, we may well conclude that the influences of religion on the character which will remain after rational criticism has done its utmost against the evidences of religion are well worth preserving, and that what they lack in direct strength as compared with those of a firmer belief, is more than compensated by the greater truth and rectitude of the morality they sanction.