 | National education league - 232 pages
...to believe with Bacon, that, after all, superstition may be worse than atheism, for, as he says, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. Athesim leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws and reputation ; but superstition... | |
 | Louis Viardot - 1869 - 98 pages
...adore? Once more, it is I who am pious, when, instead of accusing * " It were better," says Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. Plutarch saith well to that purpose. ' Surely,' saith he, ' I had rather a great deal men should say... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...proceeded on good grounds when he authorized slaverv in Judea." '' It were better," says Francis Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all than " such an opinion...the one is unbelief, the other is " contumely."— E. CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST. 323 standard of Rome, revered the cross which glittered at the head of... | |
 | Plutarch - 1918 - 370 pages
...remarkable Treatise on Superstition is well given in the opening words of Bacon's famous Essay : ' It were better to have no opinion of God at all than...certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.' The word — the same which, in its adjective, St. Paul applies, almost in a good sense, to the Athenians... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1918 - 688 pages
...the earth, of whom the stock never faileth. For in sooth it is right naught. And I had rather a good deal men should say there was no such man at all as Francis Bacon, than they should say there was one Bacon who writ " Bomeo and Juliet " and " A Midsummer... | |
 | Samuel Dill - Rome - 1919 - 676 pages
...KaTafavyovtriv tvi rote 0<oi/t, KoXa«rfoi>ffi xal XoiSopoCo-if. Of. Bacon's £tsays, Of Superstition, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an * Ib. c. 4, a-nrivTovan rf favdrt? opinion as is unworthy of Him." • deavdrwr. 4 Gr&rd, p. 269. 1... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - Education - 1920 - 498 pages
...of mysticism and the unnecessary demands of an undue supernaturalism. "It were better," says Bacon, "to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion...unworthy of him, for the one is unbelief, the other contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the deity. ' ' Superstition is our inheritance... | |
 | Hugh Black - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 232 pages
...revaluation has to cover the whole ground of religion from the doctrine of God itself ; for as Bacon said, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him." It must deal also with the organization of religion, and ask such a question as this, whether we can... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - Books and reading - 1921 - 228 pages
...seasonable use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. OF SUPERSTITION FRANCIS BACOK, Essays (1625). IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than...Plutarch saith well to that purpose ; Surely, saith he, / had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 pages
...your life altogether. Lord Bacon said, long ago: "It were better to have no opinion at all of God, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. For the one may be unbelief, but the other is contumely." That is unanswerable. I can never be thankful enough... | |
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IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: 
