Charles Babbage Passages from the life of a philosopher
"Passages from the life of a philosopher", Appendix, p. 490
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.106 (Augustine: The City of God. 21:8)
Charles Babbage Passages from the life of a philosopher
"Passages from the life of a philosopher", Appendix, p. 490
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
28 May 1794
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
Joseph Priestley book An History of the Corruptions of Christianity
General Conclusions, Part I : Containing Considerations addressed to Unbelievers and especially to Mr. Gibbon
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
Context: That miracles are things in themselves possible, must be allowed so long as it is evident that there is in nature a power equal to the working of them. And certainly the power, principle, or being, by whatever name it be denominated, which produced the universe, and established the laws of it, is fully equal to any occasional departures from them. The object and use of those miracles on which the christian religion is founded, is also maintained to be consonant to the object and use of the general system of nature, viz. the production of happiness. We have nothing, therefore to do, but to examine, by the known rules of estimating the value of testimony whether there be reason to think that such miracles have been wrought, or whether the evidence of Christianity, or of the christian history, does not stand upon as good ground as that of any other history whatever.
Elisha Gray (1835–1901) American electrical engineer
Familiar Talks on Science, Volume 1, 1899, p. V
(See Charles Babbage's for a similar commentary on miracles)
Nature's Miracles (1900)
Stephen Robson (1951) Bishop of Dunkeld
Bishop Stephen Robson’s homily https://www.dunkelddiocese.co.uk/chrism-mass-st-andrews-cathedral-2019/ (17 April 2019)
Edward I of England (1239–1307) King of England
Speech (1277), quoted in Marc Morris, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2009), p. 220
Charles Babbage Passages from the life of a philosopher
"Passages from the life of a philosopher", Appendix, p. 489
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Paul Carus (1852–1919) American philosopher
"Reflections on Magic Squares" in The Monist, Vol. 16 (1906), p. 139
Herbert Spencer book Social Statics
Thus writes Blackstone, to whom let all honour be given for having so far outseen the ideas of his time; and, indeed, we may say of our time. A good antidote, this, for those political superstitions which so widely prevail. A good check upon that sentiment of power-worship which still misleads us by magnifying the prerogatives of constitutional governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that a legislature is not “our God upon earth,” though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
Pt. III, Ch. 19 : The Right to Ignore the State, § 2
Social Statics (1851)
Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912) Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 25