The sceptic's creed: a review

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第 2 頁 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them ; thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.
第 154 頁 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
第 162 頁 - And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain, arid is as familiar to noble and simple, from John-o...
第 162 頁 - English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world.
第 69 頁 - Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God : because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
第 122 頁 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.
第 105 頁 - COULD we but know The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, Where lie those happier hills and meadows low, Ah, if beyond the spirit's inmost cavil, Aught of that country could we surely know, Who would not go ? Might we but hear The hovering angels' high imagined chorus, Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear, One radiant vista of the realm before us, — With one rapt moment given to see and hear, Ah, who would fear ? Were we quite sure To find the peerless friend who left us lonely,...
第 65 頁 - ... here below, thou wilt become to such a degree the corner-stone of humanity, that to tear thy name from this world would be to shake it to its foundations.
第 118 頁 - The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world ; the biological Laws may account for the development of the organic. But of the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead and the living, Science is silent. It is as if God had placed everything in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the genesis of Life for His direct appearing.
第 66 頁 - Measure him by the shadow he has cast into the world — no, by the light he has shed upon it. Shall we be told such a man never lived ? the whole story is a lie? Suppose that Plato and Newton never lived. But who did their wonders, and thought their thought ? It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus ? None but a Jesus."* Exactly so.

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