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" But surely, if there be anything with which metaphysics have nothing to do, and where a plain man, without skill to walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning, may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct ;... "
North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal - Page 236
1873
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...however men may overlay it with philosophical dis¥iisitions, the simplest thing in the world, hat is to say. it is the simplest thing in the world as...; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world. Here is the difficulty, — to do what we very well know ought to be done; and instead of facing...
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the north american

james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...propositions and draw inferences, just as we should from any other definite and ascertained VOL. CXVII. — NO. 240. 16 idea But, in truth, the word 'God' is...in the world." Further on he says : " It extends to rightness in the whole range of what we call conduct ; in three fourths, therefore, at the very lowest...
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Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Matthew Arnold - Apologetics - 1873 - 454 pages
...walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning, may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct ; and conduct is...; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world. Here is the difficulty, — to do what we very well know ought to be done ; and instead of facing...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 113

England - 1873 - 780 pages
...to walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct; and conduct is...that is to say, it is the simplest thing in the world so far as understanding is concerned ; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world." Again...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 113

1873 - 786 pages
...to walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct; and conduct is...that is to say, it is the simplest thing in the world so far as understanding is concerned ; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world." Again...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 18; Volume 81

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 846 pages
...to walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct ; and conduct is...that is to say, it is the simplest thing in the world so far as understanding is concerned ; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world." Again...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...abstruse reasoning may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct j- and conduct is really, however men may overlay it...that is to say, it is the simplest thing in the world so far as understanding is concerned ; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world." Again...
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The Living Age, Volume 118

1873 - 842 pages
...conduct is really, however men may overlay it with philosophic.il disquisitions, the simplest thing hi the world — that is to say, it is the simplest thing in the world so far as understanding is concerned ; as regards dying, it is the hardest thing in the world." Again...
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Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 354 pages
...it with philosophical disquisitions, 1 Relicti mtrgimur et perimus, visitati vero erigimur et vmmus. the simplest thing in the world. That is to say, it...; as regards doing, it is the hardest thing in the world. Here is the difficulty, — to do what we very well know ought to be done ; and instead of facing...
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Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning, may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct ; and conduct is...men may overlay it with philosophical disquisitions, 1 Relict! mergimur et perimus, visitati vero erigimur et vivimus. the simplest thing in the world....
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