 The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame...  An Indexed Synopsis of the "Grammar of Assent" - Sida 88efter John Joseph Toohey - 1906 - 220 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Henry Newman - 1870 - 514 sidor
...This is why science has so little of a religious tendency; deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason,...voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma : no man will be a martyr for a conclusion. A conclusion... | |
 | 1873 - 784 sidor
...rejoice that it is perfectly adapted for its mission to all men, be they philosophers or peasants. " The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason,...voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma : no man will ba a martyr for a conclusion."* " No religion... | |
 | 1871 - 636 sidor
...England, ever since the Reformation, has made far too meagre a use of the dramatic element in religion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination and the feelings, and these are affected by moving images presented before the eyes much more than... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1875 - 566 sidor
...dramatic element in religion, by which I mean here the presentation of truth through appropriate symbols. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination and the feelings, and these are affected by moving images presented before the eyes much more than... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1878 - 426 sidor
...This is why Science has so little of a religious tendency ; deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason,...voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma: no man will be a martyr for a conclusion. A .conclusion... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 sidor
...This is why science has so little of a religious tendency — deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason,...voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion. A conclusion is... | |
 | James Hibbert - 1882 - 60 sidor
...This is why science has so little of a religious tendency ; deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason,...voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die iipon a belief ; no man will be a martyr for an inference. This is why... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 sidor
...secret of its power over the human heart. " The heart is commonly reached," writes Cardinal Newman, " not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions. . . . Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us." 1 St. Louis Republican.... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 sidor
..." I do not want," he says, " to be converted by a smart syllogism." In another place he observes " the heart is commonly reached not through the reason...impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history and by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, books subdue us, deeds inflame us." I have... | |
 | Francis Howe Johnson - 1891 - 550 sidor
...imaginations of men with greater power. As Cardinal Newman has said, " deductions have no power of persuasion. The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination. . . . After all, man is not a reasoning animal ; he is a seeing, feeling, contemplating, acting animal."... | |
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