Short studies on great subjects: Vol.IV, [Schülerband]

Froude, James Anthony

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Persistent identifier:: PPN646159275

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-4865958

Title:: Leitfaden für den Geschichts-Unterricht in drei konzentrischen Kreisen

Place of publication:: Halle a.S.

Publisher:: H. Peter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Collection:: History textbooks, imperial Germany

Copyright:: Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung

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Persistent identifier:: PPN646160699

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-7794399

Title:: Altertum und Mittelalter

Shelfmark:: HD-II 24(1,1894)-3,1

Author:: Schmelzer, A.

Volume count:: 1

Place of publication:: Halle a.S.

Publisher:: H. Peter

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: History textbooks, imperial Germany

Publication year:: 1894

Edition title:: [Electronic ed.]

Copyright:: Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung

Language:: German

Subtitle:: für die Oberstufe der Mittelschule, sowie für Real- und Gewerbeschulen, Seminare und Präparanden-Anstalten

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280 SHORT STUDIES, England, modern Europe, with its march of intellect and its useful knowledge and its material progress, was advancing with a light heart into ominous con- ditions, Keble had looked into no lines of thought but his own. Newman had read omnivorously; he had studied modern thought and modern life in all its forms, and with all its many-coloured passions. He knew, of course, that many men of learning and ability believed that Christianity was not a revel- ation at all, but had been thrown out, like other creeds, in the growth of the human mind. He knew that doubts of this kind were the inevitable results of free discussion and free toleration of differ- ences of opinion; and he was too candid to attri- bute such doubts, as others did, to wickedness of heart. He could not, being what he was, acquiesce in the established religion as he would acquiesce in the law of the land, because it was there, and because the country had accepted it, and because good general reasons could be given for assuming it to be right. The soundest arguments, even the arguments of Bishop Butler himself, went no farther than to establish a probability. But religion with Newman was a personal thing between himself and his Maker, and it was not possible to feel love and devotion to a Being whose existence was merely

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