 | James Orr - 1903 - 268 pages
...most holy 1 Works, iv. p. 549. - Ibid. iv. p. 9. —religion," he says, " is founded on Faith, not Reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to...it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to bear." 1 We may conjecture how much " faith " Hume would be prepared to concede to a system against... | |
 | James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 396 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. t Higher uplift and uphold him. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,'... | |
 | James Lumsden - Scottish poetry - 1905 - 388 pages
...undertaken to defend it by the the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on fnit h, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' — Hume's Works, vol. iv., pp. 135-153. ' Discourses,' ' Hist'ries,' 'Politics,'* Whilk thrang'd his... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. I- To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture ; and not to lose... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...men more to be respected than the latter."—(III. p. 83.) of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in Scripture ; and not to lose ourselves... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
...Religion who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason, and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure . . . the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot... | |
 | Charles John Shebbeare - Evangelicalism - 1914 - 248 pages
...therefore warns those who would defend the Christian religion ' by the principles of human reason ' that ' it is a sure method of exposing it, to put it to such...a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.' If we declare that our religious knowledge arises from ' non-rational ' or ' extrarational ' sources,... | |
 | Arthur Cushman McGiffert - Philosophy and religion - 1915 - 336 pages
...the close of his famous essay on miracles, published in 1748, Hume remarked: "Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." The words, whatever their motive, meant a complete reversal... | |
 | Theology - 1916 - 458 pages
...trust in reason. Hume said, toward the close of his Essay on Miracles (1748): "Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason, and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such trial as it is by no means fitted to endure." A century later Heine wrote: "The instant when a religion... | |
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I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most... 
