When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative... The Quarterly Review - Page 286edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| 1874 - 898 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor I even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue... | |
| 1918 - 740 pages
...Mill's death there was published a posthumous essay written by him on " Theism " in which he said, " Religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man [Jesus of Nazareth] as the ideal representative and guide of humanity," and declared his belief that... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1879 - 1092 pages
...in the very first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast," pronounces him " probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission, who ever existed upon earth," and asserts that it would not be " easy even for an unbeliever to find a better translation of the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 328 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime; genius of whom our species can boast. "When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to havo m;ule a ha I choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity;... | |
| 1875 - 422 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genius .of whom our species can boast. When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor would it even now be easy, even for an unbeliever to find a better translation of the rule of virtue... | |
| 1875 - 620 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genins of whom our species can boast. When this pre-eminent genins is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...the ideal representative and guide of humanity."" Why does he thus place Jesus in the foremost position among men of sublime genius ? Not assuredly for... | |
| 1875 - 444 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When this pre-emiuent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be •aid to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity;... | |
| Wathen Mark W. Call - 1875 - 224 pages
...of the beautiful human attributes of the great Prophet of Nazareth. Jesus is to me, as to Mr Mill, "probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth." • In the section on " Religion," by the " one mind, the sovereign will," I mean the collective spirit... | |
| John Erskine Clarke - 1875 - 636 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast; and when this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this... | |
| David Thomas - 1876 - 498 pages
...first rank of the men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When His pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest...cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching upon this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor even now would it be easy even... | |
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