 I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it.  Modern Humanists - Page 87by John M. Robertson - 1891 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...Reformation, as the great and decisive contest against priestly tyranny for liberty of thought. I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of...: I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. 1 looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 pages
...Reformation, as the great and decisive contest against priestly tyranny for liberty of thought. I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of...modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as sometiling which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...great and decisive contest against priestly tyranny for liberty of thought." "I am thus," he adds, "one of the very few examples in this country of one...I grew up in a negative state, with regard to it." * How he could grow up in a negative condition with regard to religion is not easily understood when... | |
 | 1874 - 332 pages
...and, indeed, borne down by all the weight of paternal authority and example. " I am thus," he says, " one of the very few examples in this country of one...belief, but never had it ; I grew up in a negative state without it." (p. 43). In the home in which he was brought up there was no recognition of God and no... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1874 - 312 pages
...training was we have already seen. The effect produced may be described in his own words (p. 43) : " I am one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never...negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modem exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 852 pages
...the very few examples in this country of one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never had it I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as some thing which in no way concerned me." Then further on, he says, " My father's moral convictions,... | |
 | 1874 - 618 pages
...subject of our Paper, ' I am one of the very few examples in this country,' John Stuart Mill says, ' of one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never had it :' the reason of this being that ' it would have been wholly inconsistent with my father's idea of... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...subject of our Paper, ' I am one of the very few examples in this country,' John Stuart Mill says, ' of one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never had it :' the reason of this being that ' it would have been wholly inconsistent with my father's idea of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1874 - 616 pages
...subject of our Paper, ' I am one of the very few examples in this country,' John Stuart Mill says, ' of one who has not thrown off religious belief, but never had it :' the reason of this being that ' it would have been wholly inconsistent with my father's idea of... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 pages
...would also have been rejected. But let him have opportunity to speak for himself: " I am one of the few examples in this country of one who has not thrown off belief, but never had it; I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern... | |
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