 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 376 pages
...them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in c'ourts of justice? And... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...project of a National Education. The celebrated George Lockington has well said to his countrymen, " Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience... | |
 | William Oke Manning - International law - 1839 - 430 pages
...justice between nations : and I cordially adopt the noble words of Washington in his farewell address : " Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience... | |
 | Horace Hooker - Conduct of life - 1839 - 192 pages
...citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.' ' Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious... | |
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JohnWilliam McMullen - 2004 - 92 pages
...pious man ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked...morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience... | |
 | Scott Hahn - Religion - 2005 - 242 pages
...than George Washington, the "father of our country." In his famous Farewell Address of 1796, he said: "Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for...morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...life, not the aim of politics. Virtue and morality are needed for public felicity because without them, "Let it simply be asked where is the security for...instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?" 33 Washington venerates virtue and morality because they prompt citizens to act in a decent, truthful,... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...does not depend on religion, Washington argues, this is not the case for the morality of the nation: "And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." In the end, while it is often thought that the separation of church and state marks the divorce of... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - History - 2004 - 182 pages
...can be separated from religion," gently admitting instead that the opposite might possibly be true: "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." On balance, however, 113 Washington's "Farewell Address" expresses his personal hopes and concerns... | |
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And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national... 
