On the relation between religion and science

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Sida 18 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Sida 248 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I go then from thy presence? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Sida 80 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Sida xi - I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth ? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord. In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon...
Sida 174 - After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after his own image, having the law of God written in their hearts...
Sida 4 - We have wandered far away from the ideas which guided us in that Century, and indeed which had guided us in all preceding...
Sida 2 - WAR WITH SCOTLAND. THE Scotch People, the first beginners of this grand Puritan Revolt, which we may define as an attempt to bring the Divine Law of the Bible into actual practice in men's affairs on the Earth...
Sida 240 - ... of her conduct towards him. Though convinced that his doctrines were true, she could not throw off the shackles of idolatrous customs. " EAMMOHUN," she said to him, before she set out on her last pilgrimage to Juggernaut, where she died, " you are right ; but I am a weak woman, and am grown too old to give up these observances, which are a comfort to me.
Sida 67 - GOD! there is no GOD but he; the living, the self-subsisting: neither slumber nor sleep seizeth him; to him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven, and on earth. Who is he that can intercede with him, but through his good pleasure? He knoweth that which is past, and that which is to come unto them, and they shall not comprehend anything of his knowledge, but so far as he pleaseth.
Sida 248 - I may call them) as essential parts of our national education: the laws which regulate quantities and proportions, which form the subject of mathematics ; and the laws regulating the expression of our thoughts, through the medium of language, that is to say, grammar, which finds its purest expression in the classical languages. These laws are most important branches of knowledge, their study trains and elevates the mind ; but they are not the only ones ; there are others which we cannot disregard,...

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