 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...DONNE, (c. 1572-1631) British divine, metaphysical poet. "The Progress of the Soul," St. 52. Atheism 1 I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - Medical - 1999 - 290 pages
...further living proof of his wisdom and munificence. Francis Bacon expressed the general faith in 1612: '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 [natural] philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy... | |
 | Laurence Lampert - Philosophy - 2004 - 340 pages
...religion must therefore learn i. Nietzsche's principle seems to me to be stated exactly by Francis Bacon: "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" (Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral, "Of Atheism"). This does not say that the deepest philosophers... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Philosophy - 2002 - 428 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, p. 81. Chapter Five Buddhist Thought 1 had rather believe all ihe fables in the [Golden] Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince [refute] atheism. because his ordinary works convince it. 1t is true, that a little... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - Religion - 2005 - 98 pages
...in the whole universe no proof of design can be discovered? I fully accept Lord Bacon's declaration: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." 10 12. My purpose thus far has been to give very briefly the reasons for affirming that I find a necessity... | |
 | Charles Taliaferro - Philosophy - 2005 - 482 pages
...Folio Society, 2002), 57. Bacon's view in the end is that atheism is philosophically unacceptable. "It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion" (ibid., 55). Bacon, Novum Organum, trans, and ed. P. Urbach and J. Gibson (Chicago: Open Court, 1 994),... | |
 | 136 pages
...your life has illustrated it. John Keats 1795-1821 Letter to George and Georgiana Keats May 1819 21. I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Essays of Atheism 22. Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones,... | |
 | Robert Corfe - Philosophy - 2007 - 232 pages
...that great thinker who modernised our view of science, Sir Francis Bacon, correctly observed that, "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...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... 
