A Chapter of Autobiography

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J. Murray, 1868 - 63 páginas

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Página 55 - pernicious consequences would follow if Government should pursue as its primary end, that which can never be more than its secondary end: though intrinsically more important than its primary end. But a Government which considers the religious instruction of the people as a secondary end, and follows out that principle faithfully, will we think be likely to do much good and little harm.
Página 15 - of personal kindness in the past, to husband it for the future, and if you will allow me I shall earnestly desire to carry with me such a recollection of your mode of dealing with the subject; upon which, the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted.
Página 15 - the attainment of truth, we shall agree, so materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted. I did not mean to have troubled you at so much length, and I have only to add that I am, with much respect, Dear Sir, Very truly yours, TB
Página 17 - inculcation of a particular religion, carried me through all. My doctrine was, that the Church, as established by law, was to be maintained for its truth ; that this was the only principle on which it could be properly and permanently upheld ; that this principle, if good in England, was good also for Ireland; that truth is of all possessions the most precious
Página 59 - attempt to maintain an Established Church becomes an error fatal to the peace, dangerous perhaps even to the life, of civil society. Such a Church then becomes (to use a figure I think of John Foster's), no longer the temple, but the mere cemetery, of a great idea.
Página 28 - I also spoke as follows, in more forms than one : " I wish again and most distinctly to state, that I am not prepared to take part in any religious warfare against that measure, such as I believe it may be; or to draw a distinction between the
Página 40 - It would be very difficult for me to subscribe to any interpretation of my speech on the Irish Church like that of your correspondent, which contains so many conditions and bases of a plan for dealing with a question apparently remote,
Página 27 - all things of giving to the country such guarantees as I could give of my integrity, even at the expense of my judgment and fitness for affairs. If any man doubts this. I ask him to ask himself, what demand political honour could have made with which I failed to comply
Página 20 - is one of the principal ends of government, as government. If Mr. Gladstone has not proved this proposition, his system vanishes at once.
Página 22 - teaches, or for that which it teaches. On the former ground it is not in equity tenable for a moment. " Why should any preference be given to me over another fellow-subject, or what claim have I personally to have

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