 | 1872 - 630 страница
...non-natural man," and he seriously proposes, as a better definition of the Divine Being, the phrase, " That stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." The attitude of science, that is, is not directly atheistic, but rather that of naturalistic pantheism.... | |
 | 1886 - 436 страница
...righteousness." This, by the author's careful explanation is neither person nor thing, but, " simply the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." (" Literature and Dogma," p. 61.) ******* Modern materialism with its fearful brood of errors can be... | |
 | 1886 - 392 страница
...hij in wijsgeerigen zin: de richtingsstroom, door welken alle dingen de wet van hun wezen vervullen, (the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being.} „God te behagen, God te dienen, Gods wil te gehoorzamen wil zeggen de wet der dingen te volgen, die... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1889 - 466 страница
...as Sir TB does here. The subject of the authorship of the sentence is discussed m Notes and Querits, 1870. P. 19, 1. 8. Metaphysical definitions of Divines]...originality," but also of "simplicity." (Spectator, Jan. I3,'77,_p. 57.) In reference to the second definition a writer in the Contemporary Review (Nov. '76,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 страница
...God. Still maintaining the value as a scientific definition of his former saying that God is "simply the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being," he admits its inadequacy for the purposes of the deeper inquiry. Then, after suggesting, by the way,... | |
 | Louis Grossmann - 1889 - 220 страница
...modern phraseology is not unlike " the Eternal, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness," or " the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." — Matthew Arnold, "Literature and Dogma," London, 1883, P- 372 " By every thing God pursues his purpose,... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 538 страница
...we call God. We ascribe to a personal and Divine source what Matthew Arnold is content to name that "stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being ; " for we know of no stream which does not flow from some source, and we know of no adequate source... | |
 | 1927 - 554 страница
...Christianity. Arnold's various attempts to define the constant religious impulse in the soul of man as "the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being" and religion itself as it manifests itself in individual lives as "the not-ourselves that makes for righteousness",... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1894 - 248 страница
..."God, "says Matthew Arnold, "is the eternal power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." . . . "The stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." And that this "eternal power," this "stream of tendency," is not a person who thinks and loves, he plainly... | |
 | 1895 - 592 страница
...for the most part, natural laws ? We are told by a high authority that, " for science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being." For faith God is more than this. But if this be true, then those who are working for the improvement... | |
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Governor of the universe,' is to talk what appears to him unverifiable nonsense. But to talk of God as 'the stream of tendency by which all things fulfil the law of their being... 
