Controversial lettersA. Strahan, 1865 |
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... And if not , why not , upon the " greatest happiness of the greatest number ' principle ? Imagine the inventor of the telescope to have with- held his invention because the Church told him it would THE SPHERE OF LAW . 19.
... And if not , why not , upon the " greatest happiness of the greatest number ' principle ? Imagine the inventor of the telescope to have with- held his invention because the Church told him it would THE SPHERE OF LAW . 19.
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William Brighty Rands. held his invention because the Church told him it would be the means of injuring ten thousand people . We should then have had no Newton perhaps , no Herschel , no Baily . It is required to know if the happiness ...
William Brighty Rands. held his invention because the Church told him it would be the means of injuring ten thousand people . We should then have had no Newton perhaps , no Herschel , no Baily . It is required to know if the happiness ...
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... Church . But it is no affair of civil compulsion . If it seem to Galileo that the highest thing he can do is to assert the motion of the earth , let him do it . He is not only entitled , he is bound to do it . The moment you challenge ...
... Church . But it is no affair of civil compulsion . If it seem to Galileo that the highest thing he can do is to assert the motion of the earth , let him do it . He is not only entitled , he is bound to do it . The moment you challenge ...
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... Church , just as the severity of the Jewish code was , in practice , ( and not only in practice , but as to its in- direct influence on the minds of the people , ) greatly mi- tigated by the existence of Cities of Refuge , and by the ...
... Church , just as the severity of the Jewish code was , in practice , ( and not only in practice , but as to its in- direct influence on the minds of the people , ) greatly mi- tigated by the existence of Cities of Refuge , and by the ...
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... church - in opposite aisles , if you will , but let us meet - in the presence of Him ' between whom and both of us the distance is so great that the distance between you and me is less than a mathe- matic point . " But do you at all ...
... church - in opposite aisles , if you will , but let us meet - in the presence of Him ' between whom and both of us the distance is so great that the distance between you and me is less than a mathe- matic point . " But do you at all ...
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