item: #1 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t01z4w35s author: Believer in the word of God. title: Introductory lecture concerning the nature of the sacred scriptures according to their coherent spiritual interpretation date: 1882.0 words: 10747 flesch: 64 summary: The peculiar characteristic of the Word above the writings of the people of old, and above all the books of men, consists in this divine circumstance, that all and each of the things con- tained in it in a continual series, represent the celestial and spiritual principles of the kingdom of the Lord, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself ; and that the forms of narra- tion are also thus representative ; and also that they are real 6 correspondences of principles which originate in the heavens, and tlierefore tlie literal utterancea do not originate with the mind of man. Man must make the eflEbrt, by using the strength of will which is given him, and in spiritual things there is nothing obtained without effort on the part of man. keywords: earth; evil; god; heaven; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; pages; principles; self; sense; state; things; thoughts; thy; word cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t01z4w35s.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t01z4w35s.txt item: #2 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t14m9tf72 author: MacLaren, William, 1828-1909. title: The rule of faith and private judgement a lecture delivered at the close of the session of Knox College, Toronto, on 7th April, 1880 / date: 1880.0 words: 9590 flesch: 70 summary: We hope to make it apparent that, if uncertainty necessarily at- taches to whatever rests upon the exercise of private judgment, these rules of faith secure no exemption from it. If, therefore, the Romish rule of faith does not rest on private judgment, it rests on nothing, or on what is equivalent to it, on a vicious circle. keywords: bible; christ; church; faith; god; holy; infallibility; infallible; judgment; pope; protestant; reason; rome; romish; rule; scripture; truth cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t14m9tf72.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t14m9tf72.txt item: #3 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t3pv71v73 author: Wilson, Daniel, Sir, 1816-1892. title: Address delivered before the alumni of the University of Victoria College, May 22nd, 1861 date: 1861.0 words: 10571 flesch: 65 summary: There were good men in both camps, but there was a marked difference in the style of the goodness of their respective wor- thies. It is well known, we may add, that some illustrious occupants of the bench, and other men of distinction at the bar, have lived and died happy in the favour of God, and en- joying the confidence and esteem of the public. keywords: beauty; church; end; gentlemen; good; goodness; life; man; men; mind; pages; power; principle; profession; strength; tha; things; time; truth cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t3pv71v73.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t3pv71v73.txt item: #4 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t50g3w44m author: Catholic Truth Society of Ottawa. title: The Catholic Truth Society its aims and objects. date: 1891.0 words: 5431 flesch: 77 summary: To spread among Protestants information about Catholic Truth. The fact 14 that all th it tho Catholic Church believes and teaches is true, is enough for them. keywords: catholic; church; england; ottawa; publications; society; truth; truth society; work cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t50g3w44m.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t50g3w44m.txt item: #5 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t58d09q79 author: Hearn, Edward J. title: Annual address of the president, Mr. E.J. Hearn, barrister, etc. with a catalogue of the publications for sale by this branch. date: 1898.0 words: 9504 flesch: 70 summary: literature, is an,,iMide|;talupg.tb9>t is much needed Now-a-days Infidel and anti-Catholic publications are scattered broadcast before the public and we require to counteract this poisonous literature that is corrupting society ; and the extensive cir- culation of Catholic works by the Truth Society will do much to affect this object With great pleasure will I give my assistance to tbe Catholic Truth Society. \tv . ■ :;( Catholic Truth Society OF CANADA ST. keywords: book; branch; branches; canada; catholic; church; committee; father; good; holy; members; pages; president; protestant; publications; rev; s.j; society; tha; toronto; truth; work cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t58d09q79.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t58d09q79.txt item: #6 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t5k94c666 author: Wilkes, Henry, 1805-1886. title: Lecture on freedom of mind, by the Reverend Henry Wilkes, A.M., and speech of His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin & Kincardine, K. T., &c. delivered before the Mercantile Library Association of Montreal, at the opening of the winter's course of lectures of that institution, Nov. 16, 1848. date: 1848.0 words: 11873 flesch: 59 summary: Should the educator deem punishment requisite, in onlcr to in- duce diligence in a prescribed course, yet this agency cannot atfect the freedom of tho mind ; it can only suggest a motive whereby it may be induced to exercise its liberty in one department rather than in another. to prevent the rising up of such men. keywords: book; cardinal; cheers; contrary; course; earth; exercise; freedom; galileo; good; holy; laws; lecture; liberty; man; men; mind; motion; opinion; order; pages; self; soul; sun; tho; thought; truth cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t5k94c666.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t5k94c666.txt item: #7 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t5q81xf6q author: M'Kay, Alexander title: A discourse date: 1867.0 words: 11063 flesch: 69 summary: If the alternative be, whether we shall sacrifice peace or truth, both inestimable in their proper places, we must not have one moment's hesitation in sacrificing peace, rather than let truth go. And whether man shall hear or forbear, God shall display His regard for truth, and vindicate His honour, either in mercy or judgment. keywords: church; earth; error; faith; god; history; light; lord; man; men; pages; regard; spirit; system; time; truth; word; years cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t5q81xf6q.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t5q81xf6q.txt item: #8 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t6f19zr8j author: Robertson, William. title: The truth concerning the soul date: 1891.0 words: 4737 flesch: 73 summary: At Ps. cv. It-18, the Psalmist, referring to the persecution of foseph, says : — I , !'.? injunction, such souls were to be cut a^efe^eno^'^T '^r'^'^'^*'^^ be ascertained bv a.efe,encetoLev.xx. keywords: following; gen; god; living; man; pages; scriptures; shall; soul; tho; truth cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t6f19zr8j.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t6f19zr8j.txt item: #9 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t7dr41p98 author: Patterson, George, 1824-1897. title: The present truth a sermon preached at the opening of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, June 16th, 1858. date: 1858.0 words: 12624 flesch: 67 summary: And hence in the present day those views which exalt man and tend to give him honor and credit in his own salvation are prominent and pul)lic, while Calvinism which lays man prostrate at the feet of his Creator is of- ten regarded as distanced by the progress of the age. As Jenkyn illustrates the idea, at the revival of philosophy much was elFected by the works of Aristotle, and, as he was the author of these, their iniluence may be said to be the influeiioiof Aris- totle, so we may speak of the influence whicli the word produces iipt.n men as the iiiHuence of the Spirit, as he was the author of the \so\\{, and in Providence adopts means to imjiress it upon men. keywords: age; christ; church; day; doctrines; form; god; great; heart; holy; lord; man; men; nature; pages; power; present; shall; son; spirit; system; testament; tiie; tlie; truth; view; world cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t7dr41p98.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t7dr41p98.txt item: #10 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t9m33ts7n author: Slight, Benjamin, 1798?-1858. title: The mystery of godliness, the pillar and the ground of the truth a sermon preached on the Credit Mission, and at two or three other places, on special occasions / date: 1840.0 words: 7472 flesch: 71 summary: Fall prostrate, lost in wonder, fall, Ye sons of men, for God is man ! The Sermon itself may thus contribute to secure the means for many others being delivered, and the best interests of men be thereby promoted. keywords: christ; god; godliness; gospel; holy; jesus; man; men; mystery; nature; spirit; things; truth; world cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t9m33ts7n.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t9m33ts7n.txt item: #11 of 64 id: aeu_ark+=13960=t9v12gz8b author: Muckleston, W. J. (William Jeffryes), b. 1849 title: Roman methods of controversy as exemplified by the "Catholic Truth Society" a lecture delivered in St. John's Hall, May 15th, 1893 / date: 1893.0 words: 14396 flesch: 65 summary: Do we not well then in cautioning Church people to beware of the statements of these tracts, to take no alleged fact as true, to follow no argument unless with both eyes open.? Happily the False Decretals have had no such influence on the legislation of lie Catholic Church. keywords: bible; bishop; catholic; century; church; controversy; council; england; english; henry; history; luther; men; methods; pages; pope; protestant; roman; rome; time; tracts; truth; years cache: aeu_ark+=13960=t9v12gz8b.txt plain text: aeu_ark+=13960=t9v12gz8b.txt item: #12 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t40s0bs7n author: Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916. title: William James and other essays on the philosophy of life, date: 1911.0 words: 57535 flesch: 63 summary: If such individual lives, distinct in their meaning from other partial expressions of the world will, endless in their duration from some one point onwards, were actually factors in the world process, and were amongst the facts which the absolute view of real life had to in- clude, in order to express and to find its own complete truth — how would such lives be 282 IMMORTALITY related to the world life in its entirety ? This rule is well known to the students of the history of reUgion in our day, and can easily be illus- trated from some of the most familiar aspects of religious life. keywords: absolute; cause; christianity; church; divine; doctrine; experience; expression; fact; faith; form; future; god; human; ideas; immortality; individual; insight; james; life; light; logic; loyalty; man; men; motive; nature; new; philosophy; present; problem; question; reality; religion; religious; sense; spirit; terms; theory; time; truth; unity; view; way; world cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t40s0bs7n.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t40s0bs7n.txt item: #13 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t4sj22g3v author: James, William, 1842-1910. title: The meaning of truth, a sequel to "Pragmatism," date: 1909.0 words: 61299 flesch: 62 summary: But the former doctrines then either suggest or declare that real truth, absolute truth, is inac- cessible to us, and that we must fain put up with relative or phenomenal truth as its next best substitute. A WORD MORE ABOUT TRUTH and feel as if truth, to be real truth, ought to bring eventual messages of death to all our satisfactions. keywords: absolute; abstract; account; anti; belief; case; cognition; con; concrete; course; critics; existence; experience; fact; feeling; function; humanism; idea; kind; knowing; knowledge; known; life; matter; meaning; means; men; mind; nature; need; notion; object; point; pragmatist; pratt; present; professor; realities; reality; relation; self; sense; sort; terms; things; thought; truth; truth truth; universe; view; way; word cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t4sj22g3v.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t4sj22g3v.txt item: #14 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t6n01qx2g author: Adams, William, 1706-1789. title: The nature and obligation of virtue : a sermon preached in the Parish-Church of St. Chad, Salop, at the primary visitation of the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and published at his Lordship's request : with an appendix, containing notes on the same subject / date: 1754.0 words: 12692 flesch: 64 summary: But this fruft or fkith in God is a duty we owe him, and aia adt of piety and true virtue. In the end true virtue only will be re- warded, and the incorrigible offender alone punifhed. keywords: agent; beings; difficulty; duty; fame; felf; fenfe; firft; fuch; god; good; goodnefs; law; love; man; mind; muft; nature; obligation; principle; reafon; right; thefe; things; truth; virtue cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t6n01qx2g.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t6n01qx2g.txt item: #15 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t7wm1tw2x author: Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert), 1846-1924. title: Essays on truth and reality, date: 1914.0 words: 191434 flesch: 72 summary: This is the issue to which here I confine myself, neglecting the question as to other truths whose warrant also is taken as immediate. Every idea of course works by inhibiting so far the action of other ideas. keywords: absolute; case; chap; content; course; difference; doctrine; end; error; existence; experience; fact; feeling; felt; foil; general; good; hand; idea; immediate; james; judgement; knowledge; life; matter; memory; mind; nature; object; past; point; practice; present; principle; prof; question; reader; real; reality; relation; result; self; sense; subject; think; time; truth; unity; universe; view; way; world cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t7wm1tw2x.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t7wm1tw2x.txt item: #16 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t82j70q5m author: Beattie, James, 1735-1803. title: An essay on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism / date: 1812.0 words: 126629 flesch: 66 summary: Doubtless by examining our owr^ hearts and feelings, and by attending to the QOnduct of other men. We judge o^ Things really existing, either, I. from our tKisn experience ; or, 2. from the -experience of other men. keywords: account; act; action; admit; answer; appearance; argument; author; belief; believe; body; book; cap; cause; certainty; chap; character; common; con; conduct; contrary; conviction; day; degree; des; dis; doctrine; doubt; earth; effect; end; equal; essay; evidence; existence; experience; fact; faculties; faculty; fallacious; feel; form; general; genius; god; good; having; heart; human; hume; idea; identity; iii; intuitive; judgment; know; knowledge; language; law; liberty; life; like; magnitude; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; memory; men; mind; modern; natural; nature; nay; necessity; non; notions; object; opinion; perceive; perception; person; philosophers; philosophy; place; point; power; present; principles; proof; prove; public; question; reader; real; reason; reasoning; regard; religion; respect; scepticism; science; sect; self; sensation; sense; sentiments; sight; soul; sound; subject; system; testimony; theory; thing; thought; time; tion; treatise; truth; understanding; universal; universe; view; virtue; vol; want; way; words; world cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t82j70q5m.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t82j70q5m.txt item: #17 of 64 id: coo1_ark+=13960=t8jd5fk4x author: Ladd, George Trumbull, 1842-1921 title: What can I know? An inquiry into truth, its nature, the means of its attainment, and its relations to the practical life, date: 1914.0 words: 80232 flesch: 60 summary: This may provoke the not altogether unreason- able inquiry: What other kind of knowledge than human knowledge would you consider it possible for human beings to have? Indeed, as we shall see later, infalli- bility is not the characteristic of any form of human knowledge; nor is it given to any man to think any subject through to the end. keywords: answer; certainty; con; conception; conviction; degrees; development; experience; fact; form; general; god; good; human; individual; judgments; kind; knower; knowing; knowledge; laws; life; man; matter; men; mind; moral; nature; new; order; point; present; problem; question; race; reality; reason; relations; science; scientific; self; self knowledge; sense; sort; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; truth; use; value; view; way; work; world; worth cache: coo1_ark+=13960=t8jd5fk4x.txt plain text: coo1_ark+=13960=t8jd5fk4x.txt item: #18 of 64 id: coo_31924006577534 author: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947. title: Germany's great lie ; the official German justification of the war, exposed and criticized, date: 1914.0 words: 64764 flesch: 64 summary: Since the foundation of the German Empire in the year 1871, we, living in the centre of Europe, have given an example of tranquillity and peace, never once seeking to profit by any momentary difficulties of our neighbours. 15 GERMANY’S GREAT LIE “ Never once seeking to profit by any momentary dtffi- culties of our neighbours.”” On pain of war Germany forced France to dismiss M. Delcassé from office at the time of the first Morocco incident ; on pain of war, she forced Russia (whom she had egged on into her disastrous Manchuria Expedition with the express purpose of weakening her) to acquiesce in Austria’s pivatical seazure of Bosnia and the Herzegovina in 1908. * 6 * * * ‘*In breaking the rules of war Germany is encouraging other nations to do likewise, but the most crushing rebuke to Germany’s pretensions that she is conducting a war in defence of culture is the fact that the public opinion of the world is not ready to believe that France and Great Britain would ever do in Cologne and Munich what Germany has done in Louvain.” keywords: ambassador; american; army; august; austria; belgian; belgium; berlin; book; britain; british; chap; chapter; cheers; country; day; days; emperor; empire; england; english; europe; fact; fleet; france; french; general; germany; government; july; kaiser; lie; louvain; military; mobilization; nation; navy; neutrality; new; officers; order; paris; peace; people; power; present; russia; servia; soldiers; states; time; troops; truth; united; von; war; war germany; way; world; years cache: coo_31924006577534.txt plain text: coo_31924006577534.txt item: #19 of 64 id: dul1_ark+=13960=t6tx6258d author: Atkinson, Thomas, 1807-1881. title: What is truth? / date: 1859.0 words: 6660 flesch: 74 summary: And as to Religious Truth, all was doubt and uncertainty. When Jesus spoke of Truth ; that is, of Religious Truth ; He seemed to Pilate to babble. keywords: christ; church; error; faith; god; man; men; pilate; scripture; truth; world cache: dul1_ark+=13960=t6tx6258d.txt plain text: dul1_ark+=13960=t6tx6258d.txt item: #20 of 64 id: ia_ark+=13960=t9h49h435 author: Rogers, Arthur Kenyon, 1868-1936. title: What is truth? an essay in the theory of knowledge, date: 1923.0 words: 48824 flesch: 54 summary: This is why, other things being equal, a philosophy which finds a place for man’s emotional needs has a better chance of survival than one which merely orders the facts of sense experience. There are two main forms of primitive or intui¬ tive belief—by which I mean belief that rests on its own bottom, and does not depend upon security borrowed from other beliefs. keywords: belief; case; character; content; con¬; existence; experience; fact; form; human; knowledge; life; meaning; mind; nature; object; point; present; process; reality; reason; relation; self; sense; terms; things; truth; way; world cache: ia_ark+=13960=t9h49h435.txt plain text: ia_ark+=13960=t9h49h435.txt item: #21 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t1mg8vn9q author: Cousin, Victor, 1792-1867. title: Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good / date: 1875.0 words: 148091 flesch: 67 summary: There are, then, in man principles superior to experience. We ourselves saw the list of persons who this year contributed to the exhibition ; there were her Majesty the Queen, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, Newcastle, ^Northumberland, Sutherland, the Earls of Derby and Suffolk, and numerous other great men, besides bankers, merchants, savants, and artists. keywords: 1st; absolute; account; action; analysis; art; arts; author; beautiful; beauty; cause; century; certain; character; consciousness; day; death; desire; divine; doctrine; doubt; duty; end; ethics; evil; existence; experience; expression; eyes; fact; feel; force; form; foundation; french; general; genius; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; imagination; infinite; intelligence; interest; judge; judgment; justice; kant; know; knowledge; law; laws; lecture; lesueur; liberty; life; like; love; man; means; merit; method; mind; mysticism; nature; new; object; obligation; order; perfect; person; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; poussin; power; principle; public; real; reason; regard; respect; right; school; science; sensation; senses; sentiment; series; single; society; soul; spirit; subject; system; theory; thing; thought; true; truth; unity; universal; virtue; vol; work; world cache: loc_ark+=13960=t1mg8vn9q.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t1mg8vn9q.txt item: #22 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t1zc93j1v author: Allen, E. D. (Edward Derick), 1816-1842. title: An introductory address to the course of lectures, before the Young men's association for mutual improvement in the city of Albany. date: 1841.0 words: 9015 flesch: 70 summary: The aliment adapt- ed to strengthen mind is Truth — truth, made the subject of careful study, and labored thought. Truth — truth alone is substantial food for the soul ; and if the human mind may safely and wise- ly expend its energies upon any thing, it is truth. keywords: effort; enjoyment; error; light; man; men; mind; nature; object; relation; soul; subject; truth; world cache: loc_ark+=13960=t1zc93j1v.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t1zc93j1v.txt item: #23 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t3125z27c author: [Gilbert, Olive] title: Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, date: 1875.0 words: 89934 flesch: 77 summary: Mrs. Sojourner Truth, a venerable colored woman, who has been heard before, gave her testimony the other day, in Providence, against the flummery and folly of ' feminine vestments/ and specially did she rebuke the l women on the stage at the Woman's Suf- frage Convention.' l.\ WESTERN M.w ST0B1 'I James Varney conveyed Sojourner Truth t<> our house fourth day, the 23d of ninth month, 1868, whi she remained till the following sixth day, when w< ried her to the house of our son-in-law, P. Paxton, where she remained till seventh day evening, when she went to Potter's Corners to attend a large repub- lican meetiiifir in which she made a few remarks. keywords: age; answer; audience; bhe; book; care; cause; children; church; city; colored; condition; course; dat; day; days; dear; dollars; evening; family; father; feel; following; free; freedom; friend; god; good; government; hand; heard; help; home; house; human; ing; isabella; jesus; kind; know; land; left; letter; lie; life; living; long; look; lord; love; manner; master; matthias; mau; meeting; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; narrative; new; night; people; place; power; present; president; race; read; rights; sibyl; slave; slavery; sojourner; sojourner truth; son; speak; spirit; state; tell; thai; thing; thought; thy; time; visit; voice; want; washington; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years; yes; yon; york cache: loc_ark+=13960=t3125z27c.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t3125z27c.txt item: #24 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t54f26619 author: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842-1916. title: Colonel Archibald Gracie's The truth about Chickamauga : paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, February 7th, 1912 / date: 1912.0 words: 8404 flesch: 59 summary: After reporting to General Thomas, General Steedman, of this corps, was ordeded to move his division into the three-quar- ter-mile gap between the two wings of the army. General Thomas reports tliat McCook gave him the same information at Baird's head- quarters. keywords: army; brannan; brigade; division; field; general; general thomas; house; left; line; mccook; ohio; rear; road; thomas; time; troops cache: loc_ark+=13960=t54f26619.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t54f26619.txt item: #25 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t6h148g0j author: Finch, A. Elley. [from old catalog] title: On the pursuit of truth as exemplified in the principles of evidence, theological, scientific, and judicial. date: 1873.0 words: 56053 flesch: 70 summary: It is in vain to say we have produced great men under this system. We have pro- duced great men under all systems ; . . . . keywords: 10s; 21s; 8vo; author; belief; bishop; church; co.; crown; crown 8vo; crown svo; day; dictionary; edited; edition; england; english; essays; evidence; experience; f.r.s; facts; fcp; general; history; human; illustrations; john; knowledge; law; laws; life; literature; longmans; lord; m.a; men; mind; nature; new; note; order; philosophy; physical; plates; post; present; price; principles; professor; progress; proof; pursuit; rev; science; second; sir; svo; system; theological; theology; time; truth; vols; woodcuts; works; world cache: loc_ark+=13960=t6h148g0j.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t6h148g0j.txt item: #26 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t6qz3dj3b author: Rother, Aloysius Joseph, 1859-1920. title: Certitude; a study in philosophy, date: 1911.0 words: 21638 flesch: 61 summary: Moral certitude, 12; moral certitude in the wider sense, 17; moral laws, 15; their necessity, 46. Object; formal object of a faculty and its act, 79. Moral certitude in the wider sense. keywords: absolute; assent; certainty; certitude; doubt; god; grounds; instincts; laws; man; metaphysical; mind; moral; motives; nature; object; opposite; sense; statement; thesis; truth cache: loc_ark+=13960=t6qz3dj3b.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t6qz3dj3b.txt item: #27 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t80k36r48 author: McCosh, James, 1811-1894. title: The tests of various kinds of truth: being a treatise of applied logic, date: 1891.0 words: 29822 flesch: 74 summary: But what we have specially to do here is to enumerate the criteria by which such truths may be tried, and which will settle for us whether we are entitled to assume without any mediate proof what may be presented to us by ourselves or others for our acceptance. the most prominent truths to the ordinary observer ; they lie deep down in the soul ; they are the foun- dation on which other truths are laid. keywords: cases; cause; class; con; deductive; evidence; facts; form; god; induction; inductive; kinds; law; laws; logic; man; men; method; mind; nature; number; objects; power; reasoning; science; self; testimony; tests; things; time; truth; world cache: loc_ark+=13960=t80k36r48.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t80k36r48.txt item: #28 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t8df7xb10 author: Gardiner, Harry Norman, 1855- [from old catalog] title: The problem of truth, date: 1908.0 words: 19265 flesch: 59 summary: The fact that one truth is not, as such, altered by its connec- tion with other truths, may appear perhaps in a still clearer light, if we take a case where, as things stand, there is no such connec- tion, and then imagine what would happen if such a connection were brought about. But this last should not be dogmatically assumed at the outset in such a way as to prejudice investigation into the nature and conditions of particular truths. keywords: college; experience; fact; knowledge; meaning; new; object; philosophical; point; problem; professor; proposition; reality; relation; review; system; thought; truth; university; view; vol; york cache: loc_ark+=13960=t8df7xb10.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t8df7xb10.txt item: #29 of 64 id: loc_ark+=13960=t9w109w3h author: [Bailey, Samuel] 1891-1870. [from old catalog] title: Essays on the pursuit of truth, date: 1831.0 words: 51051 flesch: 56 summary: His errors are such as have, with 82 COMMUNICATING AND RECEIVING more or less distinctness, presented themselves to other minds as truths. There are other events among mankind analogous to these, in respect to uniformity in the aggregate and variety in the details. keywords: actions; causation; causes; circumstances; duty; effects; events; evidence; fact; future; human; inquiry; investigation; knowledge; man; mankind; men; mind; moral; nature; opinions; past; physical; place; present; principle; progress; pursuit; regard; result; science; state; subject; testimony; time; truth; uniformity; views cache: loc_ark+=13960=t9w109w3h.txt plain text: loc_ark+=13960=t9w109w3h.txt item: #30 of 64 id: mdp_39015080466694 author: McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. title: The Triumph of Evolution : The Anti-Evolutionists Answered. date: 1925.0 words: 7321 flesch: 66 summary: Believes in partial Evolution, but he has eccentric ideas on geology which no geologist in the world shares. The fact itself is now “established beyond the shadow of a doubt.” Anti-Evolution writers gloat over these differences of theory of men of science, but it is foolish and frivolous. keywords: darwinism; evolution; fact; man; men; professor; science; theory; truth; writers; years cache: mdp_39015080466694.txt plain text: mdp_39015080466694.txt item: #31 of 64 id: mdp_39015080472114 author: Sankey-Jones, Nancy Eleanor, 1862- title: A Unique Heathen : To Which is Now Added Theodore Schroeder on the Erotogenesis of Religion. A Bibliography. date: 1922.0 words: 7681 flesch: 65 summary: Some one had told him that he was in danger of arrest as a “blasphemer” and an “obscenist” if he pub- lished such erotic interpretations of mystical religion. From the religionist’s standpoint this is so because Mr. Schroe- der always reduces mystical religion to a personal sexual origin. keywords: city; new; new york; psychology; religion; schroeder; seeker; theodore; truth; york; york city cache: mdp_39015080472114.txt plain text: mdp_39015080472114.txt item: #32 of 64 id: mdp_39015080472171 author: Schroeder, Theodore, 1864-1953. title: The Bishop of Bolsheviks and Atheists. date: 1922.0 words: 6093 flesch: 66 summary: A resolution of the Jubilee Council of the Epis- copal Diocese of Arkansas has just demanded that Bishop Brown be deposed and excommunicated for his “most pernicious propaganda against the church and her teachings, and doctrines” (Arkansas Gaz- ette, Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 27, 1922). Incident- ally, the House of Bishops may learn some lesson as to how it can in the future avoid a repetition of such disillusionment as has been experienced both by Bishop Brown and, in a different way, by his fel- low bishops. keywords: bishop; brown; church; gardner; god; house; man; mrs; negro; new; religion cache: mdp_39015080472171.txt plain text: mdp_39015080472171.txt item: #33 of 64 id: mdp_39015080472189 author: Schroeder, Theodore, 1864-1953. title: Concerning the Heresy Trial of Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D.D. date: 1924.0 words: 5152 flesch: 62 summary: If now, the analogies of the civil law obtain, or if even ecclesiastical courts must have regard for the constitutional rights of church members, then it is possible that the trial, under such circumstances, of a heretical bishop would not be allowed to eventu- ate in expulsion or deprivation of canonical privi- leges, because this would then be a deprivation of rights without “due course of law.” “These statutes and the like were made to put things in ordinary form, and to ease the sovereign of labour, but not to de- prive him of power, and therefore the King [and Bishop's Court?] is not restrained by such laws, but his [and the bishop's P] royal authority remains full and perfect as before, and he can dispense with them as king.” keywords: bishops; church; content; court; defendant; doctrine; law; trial; vs. cache: mdp_39015080472189.txt plain text: mdp_39015080472189.txt item: #34 of 64 id: miun_afy5995,0001,001 author: Cousin, Victor, 1792-1867. title: Lectures on the true : the beautiful and the good. date: 1854.0 words: 146926 flesch: 64 summary: There are, then, in man principles superior to experience. We ourselves saw the list of persons who this year contributed to the exhibition; there were her Majesty the Queen, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, Newcastle, Northumberland, Sutherland, the Earls of Derby and Suffolk, and numerous other great men, besides bankers, merchants, savants, and artists. keywords: 1st; absolute; action; art; author; beauty; cause; century; character; consciousness; desire; doctrine; duty; end; ethics; evil; experience; expression; fact; form; foundation; french; general; genius; god; good; happiness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; imagination; infinite; intelligence; interest; judgment; justice; know; knowledge; law; laws; lecture; liberty; life; like; love; man; mind; nature; new; object; obligation; order; person; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; poussin; power; principle; real; reason; respect; right; school; sensation; senses; sentiment; series; society; soul; subject; thing; thought; truth; unity; universal; virtue; vol; work; world cache: miun_afy5995,0001,001.txt plain text: miun_afy5995,0001,001.txt item: #35 of 64 id: miun_aje7252,0001,001 author: Cousin, Victor, 1792-1867. title: Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good / date: 1871.0 words: 145318 flesch: 64 summary: There are, then, in man principles superior to experience. We ourselves saw the list of persons who this year contributed to the exhibition; there were her Majesty the Queen, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, Newcastle, Northumberland, Suutherland, the Earls of Derby and Suffolk, and numerous other great men, besides bankers, merlchants, scvants, and artists. keywords: 1st; absolute; account; action; agreeable; analysis; art; arts; author; beautiful; beauty; cause; century; character; consciousness; desire; divine; doctrine; duty; end; ethics; evil; existence; experience; expression; eyes; fact; force; form; foundation; general; genius; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; imagination; infinite; intelligence; interest; judgment; justice; kant; know; knowledge; law; laws; lecture; lesueur; liberty; life; like; love; man; merit; method; mind; nature; new; object; obligation; order; passion; perfect; person; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; point; poussin; power; principle; real; reason; regard; respect; right; school; science; sensation; senses; sentiment; series; society; soul; spirit; subject; system; theory; thing; thought; truth; unity; universal; virtue; vol; work; world cache: miun_aje7252,0001,001.txt plain text: miun_aje7252,0001,001.txt item: #36 of 64 id: miun_ajl7865,0001,001 author: West, Nathaniel, 1826-1906. title: The corruption of established truth and responsibility of educated men. An address before the alumni of the University of Michigan, June 27, 1856. date: 1856.0 words: 8352 flesch: 53 summary: Every effort in the discovery, illustration, and confirmation of scientific truth is an effort in behalf of a divine revelation. Every perversion and corruption of scientific truth, is a perversion of it, for in it are latent all the seeds of human knowledge. keywords: age; departments; development; doctrine; existence; god; idea; life; man; philosophy; science; theory; things; time; truth; universe; world cache: miun_ajl7865,0001,001.txt plain text: miun_ajl7865,0001,001.txt item: #37 of 64 id: mou_010005922905 author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660. title: A view of some exceptions to the Practical catechisme from the censures affixt on them by the ministers of London, in a book entituled, A testimony to the truth of Jesus Christ, &c. / date: 1648.0 words: 3947 flesch: 72 summary: i in the 1’ mflical C area‘/9: to ‘And indeed this was the onjly occafion if delivering rhofe worms to cwthat C rill did ntgtllilfiepofttthfi i words iofthe Comrnandements, nor yet rel-erre to any other place but that Commandment in th ofe Words of his; And though I have many other thing?» A A A View of fome Exceptions tothe Trafiicall Cntecbffme, &c.i Being it again appearsto me by a 6ook,ith'at came to ~*«- this town on Saterclay1aPt,(entituled, A Teflimanj to the term/9 of jefm C/mff, 8cc. keywords: condition; faith; fame; god; thefe; truth; words; world cache: mou_010005922905.txt plain text: mou_010005922905.txt item: #38 of 64 id: nc01_ark+=13960=t4bp14k6f author: Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887. title: Little Sunshine's holiday : a picture from life / date: 1871.0 words: 46516 flesch: 84 summary: There's papa baa-lambs, and mamma baa-lambs, and little baby baa-lambs, just like Little Sunny ; and they all run about together ; and they are so happy. Mamma grieved is a reproach under which Little Sunny breaks down at LITTLE SUNSHINE'S HOLIDAY. keywords: arms; austin; baby; boat; body; boys; carriage; child; children; church; course; eddie; eyes; face; girl; good; great; half; hand; holiday; home; house; ing; kind; life; little; little sunshine; lizzie; loch; look; mamma; maurice; morning; mountains; papa; people; play; puff; salmon; sunny; sunshine; thing; time; water; way cache: nc01_ark+=13960=t4bp14k6f.txt plain text: nc01_ark+=13960=t4bp14k6f.txt item: #39 of 64 id: nnc2_ark+=13960=t1mg8z99g author: Cousin, Victor, 1792-1867. title: Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good date: 1857.0 words: 150534 flesch: 68 summary: There are, then, in man principles superior to experience. We ourselves saw the list of persons who this year contributed to the exhibition; there were her Majesty the Queen, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, Newcastle, Northumberland, Sutherland, the Earls of Derby and Suffolk, and numerous other great men, besides bankers, merchants, savants, and artists. keywords: 1st; absolute; account; action; analysis; art; arts; author; beautiful; beauty; body; cause; century; character; cloth; consciousness; day; death; desire; divine; doctrine; duty; end; etc; ethics; evil; existence; experience; expression; eyes; fact; feel; fine; force; form; foundation; general; genius; god; good; hand; happiness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; imagination; infinite; intelligence; interest; judgment; justice; kant; know; knowledge; law; laws; lecture; lesueur; let; liberty; life; like; love; man; means; merit; method; mind; mysticism; nature; new; object; obligation; order; perfect; person; phenomena; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; poussin; power; principle; real; reason; regard; respect; right; school; science; sensation; senses; sentiment; series; society; soul; spirit; subject; substance; system; theory; thing; thought; truth; unity; universal; virtue; vol; works; world cache: nnc2_ark+=13960=t1mg8z99g.txt plain text: nnc2_ark+=13960=t1mg8z99g.txt item: #40 of 64 id: nnc2_ark+=13960=t86h5rw2n author: Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935. title: Vital lies studies of some varieties of recent obscurantism, date: 1912.0 words: 118415 flesch: 56 summary: Now, far be it from me to deny the existence, even the occasional advantage, of such Vital Lies. Indeed its main biological function is that of a weapon, an armour, a waterproof, against such truths as happen not to be vital or vitalizing. keywords: action; anthropological; art; behef; beheve; belief; believe; book; case; christianity; church; consciousness; course; crawley; day; desire; difference; divinity; elemental; emotion; end; existence; experience; fact; faith; father; father tyrrell; forth; god; good; habits; hand; hfe; hke; human; ideas; individual; james; knowledge; lee; les; lies; life; love; making; man; mankind; matter; meaning; means; men; mind; mr crawley; mystic; myth; nature; nay; need; new; note; object; opinion; order; page; peirce; people; person; philosophy; place; point; power; pragmatism; present; principle; process; professor; professor james; prove; question; race; reader; reality; reason; rehgion; religion; revelation; right; schiller; science; scientific; self; sense; sorel; soul; spiritual; states; sub; subject; syndicalist; things; think; thinking; thought; time; truth; tyrrell; universe; use; value; vernon; view; vital; way; words; work; world cache: nnc2_ark+=13960=t86h5rw2n.txt plain text: nnc2_ark+=13960=t86h5rw2n.txt item: #41 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t08w3kf9k author: Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes), 1862-1932 title: Religion : a criticism and a forecast / date: 1905.0 words: 21126 flesch: 57 summary: For those who are acquainted with the nature of historical inquiries, the uncertainty of testimony, the prejudice of witnesses, the doubtfulness of docu- ments, who have watched, in other religions than the Christian, the growth of myths and the creation of fictitious personalities, may easily assure them- selves, without entering far into the laborious in- quiry, that its results are bound to be in the highest degree tentative and uncertain, that scholars to the end of the chapter will continue to disagree and to dispute, and that, in fact, there is not evidence suffi- cient in quality or in quantity to establish any unquestionable final truth. The deliberate conviction of such men demands a serious consideration, and I shall endeavor in these pages to give it the weight it deserves. keywords: attitude; church; ecclesiasticism; experience; fact; faith; form; god; good; kind; knowledge; life; man; men; point; position; question; reason; religion; revelation; science; sense; society; truth; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t08w3kf9k.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t08w3kf9k.txt item: #42 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t0ns0q390 author: Rhodes, Daniel Pomeroy, 1876- title: The philosophy of change, date: 1909.0 words: 101204 flesch: 51 summary: Some of them might be banded together THE FICTION OF A UNIVERSE 197 in lighter groups that were more or less markedly unsuited to the prevalent cosmic activities and must therefore in time be subdivided or combined with other such groups. It is obvious that no centre-change could over- take and pass another centre-change on its way to a third, since there could be no inducement for it to do so ; moreover, there is room in the cosmon for but one centre-change at any given distance from an- other centre- change. keywords: adjacent; case; centre change; change; chapter; character; con; cosmic; cosmoids; cosmon; course; death; distance; earth; end; experience; fiction; figure; group; human; influence; know; knowledge; life; lines; love; mass; matter; means; members; migrants; moment; motion; new; number; philosophy; place; point; politics; position; process; race; reason; relation; respect; rotary; rotation; row; set; spiral; sum; things; thought; time; truth; universe; velocity; view; waves cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t0ns0q390.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t0ns0q390.txt item: #43 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t1sf2p71b author: Wright, Frances, 1795-1852. title: Course of popular lectures, date: 1829.0 words: 74893 flesch: 66 summary: And in what lies the importance of this first step in human knowledge ? Another remark here suggests itself ; that as in the exist- ing state of human knowledge, an uncommon opinion is LECT. VI.] OPINIONS. keywords: address; beings; cause; children; country; day; education; enquiry; equal; error; evils; existence; facts; feelings; fellow; field; free; friends; good; hall; happiness; hath; heart; human; ignorance; institutions; instruction; interests; knowledge; land; law; lect; let; liberty; life; look; matter; means; men; mind; moral; national; nations; nature; object; observation; op knowledge; opinions; people; place; present; principles; public; race; reason; religion; rights; science; self; sensations; senses; spirit; subject; teachers; things; time; truth; virtue; words; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t1sf2p71b.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t1sf2p71b.txt item: #44 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t2794244p author: Carr, Herbert Wildon, 1857-1931. title: The problem of truth, date: 1913.0 words: 29084 flesch: 65 summary: Neither, then, is reality truth, nor appear- ance error. And so the question arises, how far are our j ideas about things truths about reality ? keywords: absolute; error; existence; experience; idea; illusion; intellect; knowledge; life; meaning; mind; movement; nature; new; object; philosophy; pragmatist; problem; reality; science; sense; space; theory; things; time; truth; view cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t2794244p.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t2794244p.txt item: #45 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t3805256z author: Pollock, Frederick, Sir, 1845-1937. title: German "truth" and European facts about the war, date: 1915.0 words: 5505 flesch: 61 summary: In the last year or two the prevailing motive of German military policy has been an almost panic dread of Eussian expansion, taking form in a determination to uphold Austrian influence against Russian among the Slavonic nations of the Balkans, even at the cost of a general war. '*' On August 2nd German troops entered Luxemburg, another guaranteed neutral State. keywords: austria; belgium; european; france; german; government; military; neutrality; russia; truth; war cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t3805256z.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t3805256z.txt item: #46 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t43r0s87w author: Walston, Charles, Sir, 1856- title: Truth, an essay in moral reconstruction, date: 1919.0 words: 78767 flesch: 48 summary: And ultimately the result upon such men themselves, and a baneful influence upon all who come within the circle of their power, is a general blunting of the keen edge of what we must call intellectual morality, that moral and mental habit which makes it im- possible for any man to state as an undoubted fact whatever v he has not conscientiously tested and examined in all its bear- ings. Such men are often endowed with power equal to that of the State, in many cases surpassing it, to create or to modify moral and social institutions, re- ligious movements and all that makes for national education. keywords: action; age; appendix; business; case; con; conception; country; doubt; duty; education; england; fact; form; general; german; good; government; hand; history; human; ideals; importance; individual; influence; interest; journalism; justice; law; life; man; material; means; men; mind; moral; morality; national; nature; need; news; opinion; people; power; practice; present; public; right; science; self; sense; social; society; spirit; state; study; system; thought; time; truth; universities; university; use; war; way; work; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t43r0s87w.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t43r0s87w.txt item: #47 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t4rj4b46k author: Beattie, James, 1735-1803. title: Essays on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism : on poetry and music, as they affect the mind : on laughter, and ludicrous composition and, on the utility of classical learning / date: 1778.0 words: 124039 flesch: 67 summary: A great and excellent author obferves, that if all hu- man things were to perim except the works of Shakefpeare, it might ftill be known from them what fort of creature man was * : A fentiment nobly imagined, and as juft as it is fublime ! xxvii feelings, and by attending to the conduct of other men. keywords: abfurd; againft; alfo; argument; author; becaufe; belief; believe; body; book; caufe; certain; certainty; chap; con; contrary; conviction; degree; dif; doctrine; doubt; e s; evidence; evident; exiftence; experience; external; faculties; faid; falfe; fame; fame thing; fay; fays; fcepticifm; fcience; fee; feel; feems; fenfe; fhall; fhould; fight; find; firft; fome; fometimes; form; foul; found; fpeak; fuch; fuppofe; fyftem; general; genius; god; good; great; heart; himfelf; human; hume; idea; iii; itfelf; judgement; know; knowledge; law; leaft; lefs; liberty; life; man; man nature; mankind; manner; matter; men; mind; moft; moral; muft; myfelf; n e; n t; nature; o n; object; opinion; perceive; perfon; philofophers; philofophy; point; power; prefent; principles; proof; reader; reafon; reafoning; regard; religion; s s; t h.; t r; thefe; themfelves; ther; thing; thought; time; tion; treatife; truth; u t; underftanding; view; virtue; vol; way; words; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t4rj4b46k.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t4rj4b46k.txt item: #48 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t5n875g38 author: McCosh, James, 1811-1894. title: The tests of the various kinds of truth, being a treatise of applied logic. date: 1889.0 words: 29577 flesch: 73 summary: But what we have specially to do here is to enumerate the criteria by which such truths may be tried, and which will settle for us whether we are entitled to assume without any mediate proof what may be presented to us by ourselves or others for our acceptance. the most prominent truths to the ordinary observer ; they lie deep down in the soul ; they are the foun- dation on which other truths are lajd. keywords: cases; cause; class; con; deductive; evidence; facts; form; god; inductive; kinds; law; laws; logic; man; men; method; mind; nature; number; objects; power; reasoning; science; self; testimony; tests; things; time; truth; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t5n875g38.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t5n875g38.txt item: #49 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t5z60f23n author: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919. title: Truth on trial; an exposition of the nature of truth, preceded by a critique of pragmatism and an appreciation of its leader, date: 1911.0 words: 47303 flesch: 62 summary: A Pluralistic View of Science 65 Method the Essential Feature of Science 66 Theories and Truths 68 The Law of Causation 70 Points of Reference 72 The Stability of Truth 73 System the Aim of Science 74 Stating a Truth and Telling the Truth 76 THE NATURE OF TRUTH. Domain of, includes noetic and teleological, 48; Egyptian emblems of, 81 ff. ; Ety- mology of the word, 78; Evidence is not, 74; exists only in thought, 96 ; in the singular and in the plural, 13 ; its ideal the solution of every scientific problem, 1 1 ; its predeter- mined character in the agreement between idea and reality, n; man's guide and safeguard, 3 ; Mechanical necessity the foundation of, 100; Nature and function of, according to modern scientists, 94; never in- ert, 39 ; not affected by failures and breakdowns in theories, 66, 129 ; not of the senses but of the mind, 61 ; not tested by logic or psychol- ogy, 12 ; offspring of the One and All, in; Plasticity of, 27; Prag- matic conception of, 5 ; reality, 1 1 ; reflects and reveals the eternal, 112; Stability of, 73 ; the eternal and the transient, 2; the most significant presence in the world, 12; Utility as criterion of, 117; Variability of, 28; Verifiable, the basis of science, Truths, are objective correlates of subjective thoughts, 104; are uni- versal, facts particular, 61 ; Gen- eral and special, 93; may contrast but never contradict each other, 138 TRUTH ON TRIAL. 104; of to-day never the falsehoods of to-morrow, 30; Oneness of all, 104. Twins, Truth and mind, 98. keywords: belief; conception; definition; equation; existence; experience; facts; form; god; good; human; idea; kant; knowledge; laws; life; logic; man; matter; meaning; means; method; mind; nature; new; objective; peirce; philosophy; pragmatism; professor james; reality; reason; right; says; science; sense; significance; statement; system; theory; things; thought; time; trial; truth; view; way; words; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t5z60f23n.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t5z60f23n.txt item: #50 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t6930r82x author: Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935. title: Vital lies; studies of some varieties of recent obscurantism, date: 1912.0 words: 61709 flesch: 51 summary: But Professor James does not add that these philosophical worthies, three of whom at least, Hume, Mill and Bain, were rationalistic stalwarts, employed the pragmatic method merely in the Peircean sense of denning and verifying ideas by reference to possible experience ; and that, even like Mr Peirce himself, they never employed it in the James-Schiller sense of Willing to Believe or The Two Pragmatisms 39 Making Truth in obedience to life's needs and ideals. The whole matter (goes on my Pragmatist) pivots upon the fact of not clashing with other truths : so long as a truth a beneficial truth, of course does not clash with other truths that is to say with other beneficial, that is to say true, beliefs why, so long it is a truth. keywords: art; belief; believe; case; church; difference; existence; experience; fact; father; father tyrrell; forth; god; good; human; idea; knowledge; lies; life; love; man; meaning; means; mind; mystic; nature; need; opinion; page; peirce; point; pragmatism; process; professor james; question; reality; reason; religion; revelation; schiller; sense; spiritual; states; thing; thought; truth; tyrrell; universe; value; view; vital; way; words; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t6930r82x.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t6930r82x.txt item: #51 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t6m04189w author: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. title: The stability of truth : a discussion of reality as related to thought and action / date: 1911.0 words: 48004 flesch: 70 summary: With the ad- vance of science man has invented an immense vari- ety of devices, instruments of precision, by which impressions too subtle for the ordinary senses may, with relative accuracy, be also tested, measured, and set in order. No man becomes a genuine superman except through self-control, superior to that of other men. keywords: action; belief; believe; brain; conditions; conduct; degree; existence; experience; fact; faith; force; form; god; good; human; illusion; individual; knowledge; known; law; life; living; man; matter; means; men; mind; monism; natural; nature; new; object; pain; philosophy; place; power; realities; reality; relations; right; science; sense; study; sun; terms; test; things; thought; time; tradition; trust; truth; universe; use; way; wisdom; work; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t6m04189w.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t6m04189w.txt item: #52 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t7dr2rz7t author: Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926. title: The alleged vandalism at Stratford-on-Avon, date: 1903.0 words: 12703 flesch: 59 summary: Mr. Carnegie, by a slip of the pen, evidently wrote *' Shakespeare Society for ' Shakespeare Trustees. Birthplace as it is now, after the Restoration 35 The Four Cottages purchased by Mr. Carnegie . keywords: birthplace; birthplace trustees; building; carnegie; corelli; corporation; cottages; henley; henley street; house; library; miss; public; shakespeare; shop; site; stratford; street; town; trustees cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t7dr2rz7t.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t7dr2rz7t.txt item: #53 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t7mp4zd91 author: Bailey, Samuel, 1791-1870. title: Essays on the pursuit of truth and on the progress on knowledge. date: 1844.0 words: 70897 flesch: 55 summary: legitimate object of inquiry truth. It is impossible to maintain both that it is incumbent on a man to conduct an examina- tion impartially, and that it is right in other men, singly or associated, to present inducements which shall influence him to do it partially. keywords: age; character; circumstances; con; conclusions; conduct; course; day; doctrines; duties; duty; error; essay; evidence; examination; human; influence; inquirer; inquiry; intellectual; investigation; knowledge; life; man; mankind; means; men; mind; moral; nature; opinions; people; place; point; power; present; principles; progress; pursuit; question; real; relation; science; society; state; subject; time; truth; views; way; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t7mp4zd91.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t7mp4zd91.txt item: #54 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t7vm4gr0v author: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. title: On truth : a systematic inquiry / date: 1889.0 words: 225063 flesch: 59 summary: Such other truths must therefore be deemed more indisputable than the thing they are called in to prove. he error of fact is, that we can be conscious of the feelings w'^^liav^, kpdil: fiuill any consciousness of the self which has such feelings. keywords: absolute; abstract; account; action; activities; activity; acts; animals; attention; beauty; belief; bodies; bodily; body; causation; cause; certain; certainty; changes; chapter; chemical; colour; common; conception; conditions; consciousness; consider; course; creation; creatures; deny; direct; doubt; earth; effects; elements; end; energy; evidence; evolution; example; existence; exists; experience; external; fact; faculties; faculty; feelings; felt; food; force; form; functions; fundamental; general; god; good; goodness; great; groups; having; human; hypothesis; idea; idealism; illustration; imagination; individual; inference; inorganic; instinct; intellectual; intelligence; judgment; kind; know; knowledge; language; law; life; light; living; man; mankind; material; matter; means; memory; men; mind; minute; moral; motion; movements; nature; need; new; number; objection; objective; objects; order; organic; organisms; organs; parts; past; perceive; perception; persons; phenomena; physical; place; plants; possess; power; present; principle; process; processes; qualities; reader; reason; reflex; relations; respect; rise; science; second; self; sensations; sense; series; soul; sounds; special; species; state; structure; substance; system; term; things; think; thought; time; truth; unity; universal; universe; water; way; words; world cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t7vm4gr0v.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t7vm4gr0v.txt item: #55 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t9571c55t author: Thornwell, James Henley, 1812-1862. title: Discourses on truth : delivered in the Chapel of the South Carolina College / date: 1855.0 words: 60480 flesch: 66 summary: 158 presupposes that man has the power of de- termining his future actions, and that he has the power of making other men aware of his determination. They feel that the mental processes are so nearly identical, that they cannot but regard it as an unneces- sary multiplication of original powers, to have a peculiar understanding conversant only about moral truth, while another understand- ing is admitted to exist, which deals in truth of every other kind. keywords: bible; case; character; con; condition; conduct; conscience; consistency; duty; evidence; faithfulness; falsehood; form; general; glory; god; good; heart; knowledge; language; law; laws; lie; life; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; moral; nature; obligation; opinions; paley; philosophy; power; principles; promise; purpose; question; reason; right; sense; sin; sincerity; soul; speak; species; spirit; state; subject; system; thing; time; truth; understanding; virtue; vows; words cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t9571c55t.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t9571c55t.txt item: #56 of 64 id: uc2_ark+=13960=t9w08xm51 author: Gilbert, Olive. title: Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century; with a history of her labors and correspondence, date: 1875.0 words: 89944 flesch: 76 summary: Mrs. Sojourner Truth, a venerable colored woman, who has been heard before, gave her testimony the other day, in Providence, against the flummery and folly of 'feminine vestments,' and specially did she rebuke the ' women on the stage at the Woman's Suf- frage Convention.' religion, as well as other good people, who tried hard and long to abandon the use of tobacco, yet made a failure, and confessed that they could not conqiTer the habit. keywords: age; answer; audience; book; care; cause; children; church; city; course; dat; day; days; dis; evening; family; father; following; free; freedom; friend; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; human; ing; isabella; jesus; kind; land; left; let; letter; life; look; lord; love; manner; master; mau; meeting; men; mind; money; mother; mrs; narrative; new; night; people; pierson; place; power; present; president; race; read; slave; slavery; sojourner truth; son; soul; speak; spirit; spoke; state; tell; thing; thought; time; visit; voice; want; washington; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years; yes; york cache: uc2_ark+=13960=t9w08xm51.txt plain text: uc2_ark+=13960=t9w08xm51.txt item: #57 of 64 id: ufl2_aa00011647_00001 author: None title: forall x: Introductory Textbook in Formal Logic date: None words: 49757 flesch: 81 summary: T F F F F Showing that something is a contradiction requires a complete truth table. The sentences that can be symbolized with sentence letters are called atomic sentences, because they are the basic building blocks out of which more complex sentences can be built. keywords: argument; english; f b; f t; false; formal; language; line; logic; means; model; need; proof; quantifier; rule; sentence; sentence letters; t t; table; tautology; truth; truth table; use; v b; want; way cache: ufl2_aa00011647_00001.txt plain text: ufl2_aa00011647_00001.txt item: #58 of 64 id: uiuo_ark+=13960=t37087w3t author: Bowdler, Thomas, 1780-1856. title: A letter addressed to the evangelical members of the Church of England : in consequence of an appeal by the Vicar of Islington / date: 1850.0 words: 5559 flesch: 61 summary: Not, surely, where Calvinism, or Zuing- lianism (to speak more truly), is admitted upon equal terms of favour with the Catholic doctrine taught in every age : where a boastful display is made of adhe- rence to the principles of the Reformation ; while the Book of Common Prayer, which \vas then com- piled, is slightly treated ; and the real presence, which 13 Ridley (perhaps of greatest note among the martj-rs) professed with his d}dng breath, is rudely pushed aside and disclaimed : where a civil court, however composed, may give judgment on doctrine ; and the Queen, pronouncing a final sentence in ecclesiastical matters judicially referred to her, is said to be the Church herself, deciding Church matters by her recog- nised head -. and even this is but a shadow and a pretence ; for the prerogative of the Crown is seized and swayed by a ]\Iinister who wiW make the highest and most sacred appointments at his will and plea- sure ; and the ancient court of the Church is treated with mockery and derision ; and the State has no settled principles of religion ; and that which was falsehood yesterday is truth to-day ; and the Church of Rome is flattered, supported, and encouraged ; and all denominations of Dissenters have favour shown them indiscriminately; and the Church has no one form of government, and no settled doctrine ; and if an attempt be made to restore to her her ancient rights, or to give her the power of deciding on questions of doctrine, it is crushed at once, and put down with a strong hand ; and this state of things is approved by the Evangelical body, who are called upon to support a lax and latitudinarian Govern- ment ! I know not what means of judging them Mr. Wilson may possess, nor whom he would bring within the broad sweeping censure of Romanizing; many per- haps, if not all, who hold strongly and essentially the doctrine of Regeneration in Baptism, and esteem highly the privilege of daily Church services and fre- quent Communion, as special means of grace ; who, without extravagance or excess, would do honour to the Sacraments, and therefore withdi'aw the reading- desk and pulpit from the centre of the Church, in order to give a full view of the sacred Table. keywords: christ; church; doctrine; god; grace; party; power; truth; wilson cache: uiuo_ark+=13960=t37087w3t.txt plain text: uiuo_ark+=13960=t37087w3t.txt item: #59 of 64 id: uiuo_ark+=13960=t76t0kc8p author: Cousin, Victor, 1792-1867. title: Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good. date: 1855.0 words: 147193 flesch: 67 summary: There are, then, in man principles superior to experience. We ourselves saw the list of persons who this year contributed to the exhibition; there were her Majesty the Queen, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, Newcastle, Northumberland, Sutherland, the Earls of Derby and Suffolk, and numerous other great men, besides bankers, merchants, savants, and artists. keywords: 1st; absolute; action; analysis; art; arts; author; beauty; cause; century; character; consciousness; desire; doctrine; duty; end; ethics; evil; experience; expression; fact; feel; force; form; foundation; french; general; genius; god; good; happiness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; imagination; infinite; intelligence; interest; judgment; justice; kant; know; knowledge; law; laws; lecture; lesueur; liberty; life; like; love; man; merit; mind; mysticism; nature; new; object; obligation; order; perfect; person; philosophy; place; plato; pleasure; poussin; power; principle; real; reason; regard; respect; right; school; science; sensation; senses; sentiment; series; society; soul; subject; system; theory; thing; thought; truth; unity; universal; virtue; vol; works; world cache: uiuo_ark+=13960=t76t0kc8p.txt plain text: uiuo_ark+=13960=t76t0kc8p.txt item: #60 of 64 id: uiuo_ark+=13960=t9z03b242 author: Skinner, James, 1818-1881. title: Guidance into truth-what hinders? : three suggestive discourses: 1. Hindrances from errors in judgement. 2. Hindrances from want of love. 3. Hindrances from the breach of the covenant of hope / date: 1856.0 words: 24123 flesch: 74 summary: ■ Thus, all who have been grafted into Christ, * The very same one Holy Church is now under one condi- tion, and hereafter shall be under another. We prefer the edification of the Churches to all private respect and favour toward each other ; for by this means, the word of faith being consonant among us, and Christian charity bearing sway over us, we shall cease from speaking after that manner which the Apostle condemns — ' I am of Paul, and I am of Apollos, and I am of Cephas ;' for if we all do appear to be of Christ, Who is not divided amongst us, we shall then, through God's grace, preserve the body of the Church from schism, and present ourselves before the throne of Chbist with boldness. keywords: baptism; body; brethren; catholic; christ; christian; church; churches; compassion; earth; england; evil; faith; god; good; grace; holy; holy spirit; hope; life; lord; love; man; men; place; power; rome; spirit; truth; unity; way; work; world cache: uiuo_ark+=13960=t9z03b242.txt plain text: uiuo_ark+=13960=t9z03b242.txt item: #61 of 64 id: yale_39002006011960 author: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939. title: What is religion? and other student questions : talks to college students / date: 1906.0 words: 18645 flesch: 63 summary: As to the second objection, that such a conception wipes out the distinction be tween religious men and those who are not religious, my reply is that this distinction ought to be wiped out. But if, on the other hand, you find yourself stopped by the creeds or the tra ditions of the body of religious men with whom you are associated, do not for one moment allow yourself to think that you have lost your religion. keywords: church; conception; day; energy; faith; god; human; know; life; man; men; organization; prayer; questions; religion; science; soul; things; truth; way; world cache: yale_39002006011960.txt plain text: yale_39002006011960.txt item: #62 of 64 id: yale_39002085400910 author: Cutter, George W. title: The new theology. A sermon preached at the Channing Memorial Church, Newport, R.I. ... January, 1892. date: 1892.0 words: 3869 flesch: 63 summary: I refer to such men as Dr. Lyman Ab bott, T. T. Munger, Washington Gladden, Dr. Briggs, Heber Newton, Mr. Haweis and Professor Momerie, who, while nominally occupying the traditional evangelical position, have by various public utter ances shown that they have quite outgrown the old theology and are now eager to teach as the very truth of God what they call the New Theology. Rather do I lament for the great mass of orthodox men and women who still hold back in distrust, who still hide away from the light and learning of our time, who still evade the plain issues of truth and honesty which are urged upon them, and still 'cling to dead traditions and out grown creeds in which they no longer believe. keywords: christ; god; jesus; men; new; truth cache: yale_39002085400910.txt plain text: yale_39002085400910.txt item: #63 of 64 id: yale_39002088440988 author: Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916. title: The quest for truth / date: 1915.0 words: 28908 flesch: 65 summary: It was some thought of this kind that made Francis Bacon say : Truth emerges more quickly from error than from confusion, and which led Babbage in his Bridgewater Treatise to declare : It is a condition of our race that we must ever wade through error in our advance towards truth : and it may even be said that in many cases we exhaust almost every variety of error before we attain the desired goal. — The Quest for Truth. keywords: age; authority; christ; church; doctrine; experience; fact; faith; god; good; history; jesus; know; language; life; man; men; mind; place; quest; question; religion; right; science; society; spirit; swartbmore; things; thought; time; truth; ube; urutb; use; words; world; xecture cache: yale_39002088440988.txt plain text: yale_39002088440988.txt item: #64 of 64 id: yale_39002088446738 author: Tatham, Edward, 1749-1834. title: The chart and scale of truth by which to find the cause of error; lectures read before the University of Oxford at the lecture founded by the Rev. John Bampton, M.A. date: 1840.0 words: 86619 flesch: 59 summary: Academic! omnes res fluxas et cad u eas nullamque omnino stabilem et immutabilem esse putarunt, et in rebus ipsis difficultatem possuerunt.^ Alii, omnem veritatis difficultatem in imbecil- litate nostri intellectus habuerunt, hisce nisi argumentis: Nos autem si qua in re vel male credidimus, vel obdormivimus et minus attendimus, vel defecimus in via et inquisitionem abrupimus; nihilominus iis modis res nudas et apertas exhibemus, ut errores nostri, antequam scientiae massam altius inficiant, notari et separari possint ; atque etiam ut facilis et expedita sit laborum nostrorum continuatio. keywords: /cat; actions; advantage; ages; analogy; analysis; analyt; appendix; application; aristotle; atque; attention; augm; aut; author; authority; axioms; bacon; bodies; body; book; cap; causes; chap; chart; com; conclusion; cum; dis; divine; earth; editor; effect; enim; error; esse; est; ethics; etiam; evidence; evil; exercise; existence; experiments; extent; facts; faculties; fiiv; force; form; foundation; genius; god; good; history; honour; human; i. cap; ibid; ideas; iii; imagination; imitation; induction; inductive; instrument; intellect; invention; investigation; irepl; judgment; kal; kinds; knowledge; laws; learning; lib; life; light; locke; logic; lord; materials; mathematical; matter; means; memoir; men; metaph; metaphysics; method; middle; mind; modes; morality; motion; music; native; natural; nature; nee; newton; non; nov; number; objects; observation; ofthe; operation; order; org; particulars; parts; phenomena; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; physics; place; poetical; poetry; post; power; praef; present; principles; prineipia; process; produce; propositions; quae; qualities; quam; quantity; question; qui; quod; r&v; reasoning; reid; rerum; respect; rule; scale; science; scient; second; sect; sed; self; senses; sir; sound; species; state; study; subject; success; sunt; syllogism; syllogistic; system; t&v; tatham; terms; testimony; things; time; tion; truth; universal; vel; view; vol; way; wisdom; words; work; world; ydp cache: yale_39002088446738.txt plain text: yale_39002088446738.txt