The Elements of Moral Science: With Questions for ExaminationReligious Tract Society, 1835 - 431 pagini |
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... conscience can be strengthened , not by using the memory , or the taste , or the understanding ; but by using the conscience , and by using it precisely according to the laws , and under the conditions , designed by our Creator . The ...
... conscience can be strengthened , not by using the memory , or the taste , or the understanding ; but by using the conscience , and by using it precisely according to the laws , and under the conditions , designed by our Creator . The ...
Pagina 59
... conscience is improved by use , and weakened by disuse . To illustrate this law , we need only refer to the ele- ments of man's active nature . We are endowed with appetites , passions , and self - love , in all their various forms ...
... conscience is improved by use , and weakened by disuse . To illustrate this law , we need only refer to the ele- ments of man's active nature . We are endowed with appetites , passions , and self - love , in all their various forms ...
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... conscience unassisted . 1. Conscience indicates to us our obligations to others when our relations to them are discovered ; and impels us toward that course of conduct which the understand- ing points out as corresponding with these ...
... conscience unassisted . 1. Conscience indicates to us our obligations to others when our relations to them are discovered ; and impels us toward that course of conduct which the understand- ing points out as corresponding with these ...
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