 | Lowry M'Clintock - 1853 - 172 pages
...had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran," (says Bacon), " than that this universal frame is without a mind,...atheism, because His ordinary works convince it." Belief in the existence of God is a truth universally received by all men, in all nations, and ages... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - History - 1853 - 674 pages
...and protect revolting absurdity ; and in view, no doubt, of this fact, Lord Bacon exclaimed that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a rnind ;" (p. 60.) that is, that there is nothing, however absurd, springing out of religion, to which... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind," he has expressed the same feeling which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...Essays : or Counsels Civil and Moral ; " ftrat published in 1597 ; revised and augmented till 1625. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...is without a Mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince Atheism ; because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...with the other great men in the state; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. ths ; mares eleven months ; bitches nine weeks ; elephants...years ; for the received tradition of ten years is miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. ft is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...He has one beautiful passage in opposition to the atheistic theory, which we cannot withhold : — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pages
...the voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy hringeth... | |
 | United Church journal - 1856 - 346 pages
...every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth. ESSAY XVI. ATHEISM. Bacon's expression, " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ;" shows that he had seized the just view respecting credulity ; seeing plainly that " to disbelieve... | |
 | Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - Atheism - 1854 - 630 pages
...is as applicable to the denial of Divine Providence as to the denial of the Divine Existence — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."1 A work producing considerable excitement, calling forth a storm of opposition -from the man... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...intoxicate the brain, But drinking largely sobers us again." So Lord Bacon, in his Essay on Atheism: "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism...minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it... | |
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HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that... 
