Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dyke read the psalm and offered the prayer. Dr. Abbott took for his text the sixth chapter of Isiaah. Isaiah, he said, was not prompted to deliver his message from any feeling of his own worthiness, but from a feeling that he had received from God, a blessed truth which it was his duty to tell to men. All of us should feel this duty to impart to men the truths which are given us by God. It is the students and that class of people that have the advantages of education that should carry their message to the more...
...Bible is not an infallible guide,- it was never meant for that. For then people would never think for themselves. The book is not to save us from the trouble of living and thinking, but to inspire us to work for a spiritual revelation, to wrestle for the truth, and, by our own efforts...
...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...very creation of our own understanding acting upon the data of our senses. Such laws are not the laws of an unknowable real world at all. They hold only for the show-world of our experience. Our own understanding is therefore the source for us of all knowable rational truth...
...ignorant as we are of all absolute truth, confined as we are for all theoretical knowledge to the seeming world of sense and understanding in space and time, we are yet morally bound to postulate that the real world of the things in themselves is a Divine Moral Order; i. e., we are and absolute Moral Order were known to us to exist...