 | William Edington Taylor - 1903 - 88 Seiten
...wrote, " Divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculation, is not a bare single disposition to produce happiness, but...make the good, the faithful, the honest man happy." Butler recognized the fact that God is not only love, but that He is truth as well. To say that he... | |
 | Allan Menzies - 1906 - 956 Seiten
...understand by a purely benevolent intention, he meets with the reply of Butler, that divine goodness may not be a bare single disposition to produce happiness,...make the good, the faithful, the honest man happy. The main point which the author endeavours to make against Huxley is that he was inconsistent in admitting... | |
 | Henry Melvill Gwatkin - 1906 - 324 Seiten
...standing reminder of it. Moreover, " divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition to produce happiness, . . . perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with the moral piety of moral agents in and... | |
 | Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch - 1911 - 368 Seiten
...problem I think the quaintest, and in some way the most comforting, is the speculation of Butler that, "Perhaps an infinitely perfect Mind may be pleased...behave suitably to the nature which He has given them." I am aware that the great philosopher uses these words in connection with the striving after a right... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 Seiten
...this kind of folly. ' Or perhaps Divine goodness, with ' which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a ' bare single disposition...make the ' good, the faithful, the honest man happy.' — Analogy, p. 42. any assumption of ' what God must be, and God must do.' Mr. Bagehot has overreached... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1874 - 552 Seiten
...hardly need quoting: — "Or perhaps Divine Goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...make the good, the faithful, the honest man happy." If this be so, and at least we have abundant presumptive evidence it may be BO, what becomes of our... | |
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Or, perhaps, divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition to produce happiness ; but a disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest man, happy. 
