| 单词 | agnosticism |
| 例句 | It occurs to me to ask that profound question of modern agnosticism: Is God dead? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I would never find someone who would understand my peculiar mix of Catholicism and agnosticism, Hispanic and American styles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Ms. Kwon was raised Catholic by her Korean parents, who she said were “devastated” by her newfound agnosticism. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z After a decade or so of debauched agnosticism, Wilson drifted back to the religion he grew up in and is now one of the most visible members of the Bahai faith. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z In theory the characters line up in camps, with Adam and Holly wryly waving the banner of agnosticism, while the others toe the line of a literal-minded Christianity. Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed 2010-03-12T03:05:00Z For now the mix of agnosticism and optimism — of respect for the old and enthusiasm for the new — seems reasonable. Movie Review: ‘Side by Side’ With Keanu Reeves Charts Filmmaking Advances 2012-08-30T22:01:06Z Chike is a serious man with “a rigid morality underlying his mildness”; despite his self-proclaimed agnosticism, he finds solace in the Bible. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Next week sees the start of Uncertain Minds, a series of conversations on agnosticism convened jointly by the Guardian and St Paul's Cathedral. The cringe at the heart of Christmas 2010-12-11T07:00:00Z He argues that atheism and even agnosticism themselves are irrational. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z Cullors revealed that she was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but later went through phases of atheism and agnosticism. For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In his early life he threw his lot in with atheism, but one scholar sees him drifting to agnosticism in his old age. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Perhaps instead of mining “Stranger Things” for nuggets of relevant cultural parables, we might consider what its declared political and social agnosticism tells us about Gen X and Millennial fans of the series. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Similarly, organised religions will increasingly work together to counter what they see as greater threats to their interests – creeping agnosticism and secularity. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z In fact, his agnosticism, as he describes it, is pretty much indistinguishable from most atheists’ atheism. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z Many Jews my age slid into paganism, a sort of ambivalent agnosticism, or outright atheism; we are cultural Jews rather than religious Jews. Israel is not my birthright 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z In the play Crabtree is pushed towards agnosticism as he witnesses the hanging of an elderly woman as a witch. Get ready to watch the Transit of Venus 2012-05-28T11:52:00Z Now my mother has selective amnesia when it comes to my agnosticism – though I’m not entirely divorced from some of the values I learned in Hebrew school. “I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z We hear a scientific explanation of exactly how and why sunlight turns them to stone, and learn why Scandinavia's contemporary agnosticism is a good thing. "Trollhunter": Evil lurks in the woods of Norway! 2011-06-10T20:01:00Z There is no way of reducing this to a systematic theology, but it is a good deal more than agnosticism, however far RS travelled from what most would regard as orthodoxy. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z He's a good kid but a little nuts in the crossfire between Faustus' cosmological agnosticism and moral relativisms, and Luther's eloquent calls to faith. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z I hit a point of very studied agnosticism. Why William Jackson Harper of ‘The Good Place’ Can’t Quit the Theater 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Around the 30 or so strategically situated audience members, Myers and Graves took turns advancing the story, of Tom’s agnosticism about the fighting and his affection for Josie. Solas Nua brings an Irish insurrection into your living room, literally, with great results 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Other options, including Reform Judaism, agnosticism and even atheism, are reserved for purebreds. Faced with Donald Trump and David Friedman, Jews must resist the toxic allure of tribalism 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z But why didn’t his definition reference infidelity or atheism or agnosticism or some such thing? Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z Each brick of evidence must be placed on top of another, each layer of mortar mixed through the arguments, scepticism and agnosticism of many, many scientists. How Would We Know There’s Life on Earth? This Bold Experiment Found Out 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Also, Mr. Piper responds in his “Ask Dr. E” column to a reader who asks, “Isn’t agnosticism frankly the most honest position?” pushing back on the notion with a faith-filled response. Higher Ground: ‘The Chosen’ thinks globally, Kirk Cameron talks new book 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z E: Isn’t agnosticism frankly the most honest position? Ask Dr. E: Is agnosticism more honest than Christian faith? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Given a choice between fact and fiction, between law and anarchy, between democracy and thuggery, the speaker of the House proclaimed his agnosticism. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy joins the insurrection 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z As for nonbelievers who come across his content, Barron said: “I’d rather see someone move from agnosticism to at least an interest in religion. That’s a move in the right direction.” Catholic leaders turn to YouTube and podcasts to reach new followers. Will it work? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z My view on crime rates is a consistent and firm agnosticism, or perhaps befuddlement. Opinion | Chicago’s mayoral race hinged on crime. What does that mean for policy? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The exchange before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the definition of a woman drew much mockery on social media, with users coming up with other exchanges purportedly parallel to Judge Jackson’s agnosticism. Ketanji Brown Jackson says she can’t provide definition of ‘woman’: ‘I’m not a biologist’ 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z But, with its promise of platform agnosticism, Matter’s TV spec has the potential to replace proprietary casting systems, like Apple’s AirPlay or Google’s Cast, and finally free our TVs. Can Matter create the universal TV casting feature that Apple and Google didn’t? 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “I was reacting to the agnosticism I see in the scientific community, which has not been arrived at by a careful examination of the evidence.” What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z She told you what she believes was done to her, and your agnosticism entails an absence of faith in her. Can I Contact My Sister’s Grown Children Without Going Through Her? 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The country has seen a gradual rise in agnosticism in recent years. Argentina abortion bill heads to Congress vote as protests build 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Thomas Huxley defined agnosticism as not knowing whether God exists or not. One of the World's Most Powerful Scientists Believes in Miracles 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The political agnosticism of British civil servants is so celebrated that in the popular comic TV series, “Yes, Minister,” about a permanent secretary and his minister, the government’s party affiliation is never even mentioned. Boris Johnson Launches War on U.K.’s Own ‘Deep State’ 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Below I defend agnosticism as a stance toward the existence of God, interpretations of quantum mechanics and theories of consciousness. What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Embassy in Iraq Hunter Biden file: A brief Navy career Losing our Religion: Houses of worship struggle to attract youth drawn to 'cultural agnosticism' Fetal remains at abortion doc’s properties can’t be ID’d 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z It was the race that demonstrated, both to Mr. Bloomberg and to those who might doubt him, that an inelegant campaigner with bottomless resources, party agnosticism and a heap of political baggage could prevail. How a String of Flukes Helped Pave the Way for Mayor Michael Bloomberg 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Horgan: I’m an agnostic, and I was bothered when in your book you called agnosticism a “copout.” One of the World's Most Powerful Scientists Believes in Miracles 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Horgan: Michael Nielsen suggests that agnosticism is the best stance when it comes to attempts to interpret quantum mechanics, or explain what it means. Quantum Computing for English Majors 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Given the problems with all interpretations of quantum mechanics, agnosticism, again, strikes me as a sensible stance. What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Do you have a view other than agnosticism on who was behind these tanker attacks? The Dangers of Trump’s Approach to Iran 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z A sensible approach for undecided Democrats, then, is what might be called radical agnosticism. Twenty Democrats Are Vying to Beat Trump. Can They Avoid Blowing It? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z I was reacting to the agnosticism I see in the scientific community, which has not been arrived at by a careful examination of the evidence. One of the World's Most Powerful Scientists Believes in Miracles 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Claims that the Russians turned the election should be greeted “with something between agnosticism and skepticism — and probably leaning toward skepticism,” they say. Analysis | A fresh look back at 2016 finds America with an identity crisis 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z But one of the pleasures of agnosticism—perhaps the greatest pleasure—is that I can keep looking for answers and hoping that a revelation awaits just over the horizon. What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z He said that Greenwald, through such commentary, has implied that the Trump-Russia story is bogus, even as he has maintained an official agnosticism. Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z With the exception of Kazin, virtually none of O’Connor’s early supporters were Jewish, and O’Connor had little exposure to European immigrants, to intellectual debate as a form of socializing, or to agnosticism. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Comey, in a recent interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff, described the information as “legitimate” and expressed agnosticism over whether it was “accurate.” Is President Trump Illegitimate? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In the face of this scepticism, the late Patriarch Alexy was obliged to profess agnosticism over the identity of the bodies, as a way to avoid massive internal rifts within the church. The commemoration of an act of regicide falls short of expectations 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z If you are nonbeliever, the only position consistent with science is agnosticism. The More We Know, the More Mystery There Is 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Fujimori mocked and attacked Vargas Llosa relentlessly, drawing attention to his agnosticism, his international connections, his earnest intellectualism and his racy novels. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z If that seems alien and remote, in an age dominated by agnosticism and aetheism, other some other passages are both touching and strikingly modern: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 96 – Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne (1624) 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z But true agnosticism, Batchelor contended, consists of "an intense perplexity that vibrates through the body and leaves the mind that seeks certainty nowhere to rest." Does Buddhism Give Us Answers or Questions? 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Some people define atheism as a positive conviction that there are no gods and agnosticism as allowing for the possibility, however slight. Richard Dawkins Offers Advice for Donald Trump, and Other Wisdom 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Such agnosticism demands a humility that was lacking in economic orthodoxy in recent years. How economics became a religion | John Rapley 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z I have moved from agnosticism to calm conviction. Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “I had withdrawn into a kind of agnosticism. I would probably have called myself a socialist, but I tried not to think about it.” 'I thought I was smarter than almost everybody': my double life as a KGB agent 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The majority-Muslim country’s constitution guarantees religious freedom, but only six faiths are officially recognized — Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Hinduism — and there is no recognition of agnosticism or atheism. Back-to-the-land spiritual movement in Indonesia sparks government crackdown 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Other people define agnosticism as the belief that the existence of gods is as probable as their nonexistence. Richard Dawkins Offers Advice for Donald Trump, and Other Wisdom 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The Church of England is more like agnosticism with tea. The improbable revolutionaries 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Neighbors 2 is most appealing in its agnosticism about its empathy and its humor. The Neighbors 2 review: a surprisingly safe space for budding feminism and mouth-to-mouth puking 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But I would argue that the “Downton” passion is unique in that it admits any manner of opposed feelings — impatience, hilarity, agnosticism, scorn, bafflement — and still thrives and still endures. My Job: Watch ‘Downton Abbey.’ Poor Me. 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Where European secularism is built on unspoken agnosticism about the ultimate source of human dignity, American secularism is rooted in a declaration of self-evident truths about man and the divine source of his unalienable rights. Europe’s Feckless Secularism 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z So all these new management technologies that enable diversity and platform agnosticism are a tonic to the more traditional, palace-building approach. DellVoice: The Power Of Choice In Cloud Means Greater Agililty, Efficiency 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Pioneers are reporting that the savings are real, and the cloud earns similarly high marks for cost savings, scalability, device agnosticism—all amid outstanding, and often enhanced, levels of data security. Cloud Adoption Among Government Entities to Skyrocket, Says Report by Forbes Insights and Microsoft 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z And their agnosticism about mobile technology was perhaps best reflected on the last page of the survey, where they invited survey takers to enter a raffle—to win an iPad. Infants Already Glued to Multiple Screens 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z More and more conservative officeholders are embracing the “I am not a scientist” agnosticism on climate change rather than skepticism. Climate-change deniers are in retreat 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Or the provider that only belatedly follows the path to device agnosticism that some other provider will inevitably blaze? Here's Why Verizon Should Embrace Being a Utility 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z So all these new management technologies that enable diversity and platform agnosticism are a tonic to the more traditional, palace-building approach. DellVoice: The Power Of Choice In Cloud Means Greater Agililty, Efficiency 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Walker justifies his agnosticism on grounds that he is avoiding gotcha questions. Scott Walker’s insidious agnosticism 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z And while many remain suspicious of Mr. Piketty’s dire prognosis that inequality will continue to rise, the absence of a strong competing theory means that agnosticism remains the only alternative pose. Renewed Interest in Inequality at Annual Meeting of Economists 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Dell wants to sell more kit, VMware wants to prove its agnosticism and Cumulus? Dell And VMware Find SDN Happiness, Cumulus Networks Acts As Matchmaker 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Other religions such as Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as atheism and agnosticism, represented less than 1 percent each of the general military population. Humanists hit the Hill to press for ‘nontheistic’ chaplains 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, Akkari sounded like a formerly religious man sprinting towards agnosticism. The Repentant Radical 2013-09-17T09:45:00Z That threatens a political system so deeply intertwined with religion that agnosticism becomes an existential threat. Lebanon's Sects Game: The Problem with Its Byzantine Political System 2013-04-10T07:35:24Z Indonesia, for example, demands that people declare themselves as one of six religions; atheism and agnosticism do not count. Atheists and Islam: No God, not even Allah 2012-11-22T16:03:01Z His scientific agnosticism will horrify liberals — not to mention scientists — yet it may also be shrewd politics. Senator Marco Rubio's Long Road to 2016 Begins Now 2012-11-19T18:35:32Z Even in the present day, among the eccentric people who still believe in the modern sham agnosticism, known as theosophy, and in astrology, we find the delusion that numbers possess inherent magic or mystic virtues. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The wrongs of slavery he saw, and after he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, in his fifteenth year, he found an anti-slavery professor, McClintock, who influenced him and encouraged his dawning agnosticism. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Abuse may lead the militant Impressionist to an impasse of assertive agnosticism as pedantic in its way as the lucubrations of the most literary pedant in paint. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z I ought, then, to abstain from pronouncing any opinion whatever: my mental state on this subject may be defined by the word "agnosticism." Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z In point of fact, as little is known of the origin and essence of matter as of spirit, and there is as good ground for agnosticism in the former as in the latter. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z What, indeed, is agnosticism, but, to use an expressive Lancashire term, "shamefaced" materialism? Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Every shade of belief, doubt, and agnosticism had its defenders in the company. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z A year ago I was in the dreariest stage of agnosticism. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z Infidelity, or agnosticism, or free thought, has insisted that only that should be taught in schools which somebody knows or has good reason to believe. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z At all events, one thing seems clear: even if I was an agnostic, it is evident that I could not describe the conception of history sketched out in this little book, as "historical agnosticism." Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z This glorification of ignorance, elevated into a system, became known as agnosticism. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Finally, the strong and favorable bearing of this last on the dissolution of agnosticism and the habilitation of the ideals, the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, in a heightened meaning, is brought out. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z And if there ever was a blind alley in philosophy, it is Pragmatism—the very essence of agnosticism. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I was intimately acquainted with him; and though his morals were objectionable and his religion agnosticism, I enjoyed his society. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z There was something eminently satisfying in the juxtaposition of his nakedness of body to the stark intensity of his passion and the elemental fervor of his agnosticism. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z There is a wise agnosticism that is violated alike by negative and by positive dogmatism. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z One cannot, however, avoid the acceptance of thought as a competent organ for the interpretation of reality, unless one abandons all question of validity and accepts agnosticism or skepticism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z As he renounced Christianity for agnosticism, so he renounced romance for realism. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z As material for a book on agnosticism it is amusing,—his agnosticism being in reality only his inability to accept creed-bound faiths. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z They think that a little scientific knowledge of the material universe makes anything more than agnosticism impossible. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z "I know it is not so," it ought not to need to be said, is not agnosticism. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z On precisely the same psychological foundation, we have such divergent views of knowledge as idealism, phenomenalism, and agnosticism, with many other strange mixtures of logic, psychology, and metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But Huntington is investing heavily in internet and mobile banking, too—and thus “moving towards channel agnosticism”. American retail banking: The road to agnosticism 2011-06-23T10:54:47Z It seems Mr. Spencer's agnosticism is a sort of spiritual refuge for the destitutes who renounce their heritage like Esau or waste it like the prodigal son, and feed on husks. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Does, then, this act of superlative courage, demanded by fearless inquiry, always lead the man who has achieved it towards atheism or agnosticism? The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z It is said to contain a vigorous refutation of some of the doctrines of Auguste Comte, and in particular to deprecate a growing agnosticism among men of science. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z We are in the position of not knowing what a day may bring forth; and an expectant agnosticism with regard to many problems is perhaps the right attitude to adopt. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Of course the existence of this principle in inanimate agencies necessarily implies intelligence: this indeed is our very contention against the whole philosophy of mechanism, positivism and agnosticism. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z For those who by their abstractions separate the elements of experience from each other, are forced to go beyond experience for the unity they have lost, and flounder in the miry bogs of agnosticism. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z Those who do not find any satisfaction in watching and listening to these offices of the Roman Church as a rule drop into a state of agnosticism, if not of complete irreligion. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z I think the next big thing is the consequence of consumerisation, which is agnosticism. Beyond the cloud 2011-03-17T00:07:08Z To this form of unbelief belong atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, paganism, polytheism, animism, and denials of Christ and Christianity. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z His stoic agnosticism and self-reliant courage ignored God, denied the soul, repudiated worship and prayer and made man the master of his fate. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z Or it may be the result of economic agnosticism, combined with unwillingness to cut adrift from old moorings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z This is the true explanation of much apparent agnosticism in France. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Radical empiricism, which is radical agnosticism, delivers us from so benighted a choice. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z And his public agnosticism may grate against the coalition's heavily Catholic, conservative base. Rescue puts Chilean minister on presidential track 2010-10-19T04:17:00Z There's no question that climate agnosticism has increased, but I think that has more to do with a backlash to all the hype around Copenhagen. How has 'Climategate' affected the battle against climate change? 2010-07-08T06:00:00Z I don't prefer the term agnostic because agnosticism is often used as a weak term that means I'm not sure if the guy with the beard on the cloud exists or doesn't exist. David Eagleman and his 40 afterlives | Interview 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Why does he not extend his customary professional agnosticism to this cohort? Washington lawyer Bob Barnett is the force behind many political book deals 2010-03-07T05:00:00Z It is this underlying agnosticism that explains an incoherence which we might find in his popular works, where the story and the moral do not seem to hang together. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Seen at different angles, it is now dualism, now objectivism, now agnosticism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker "The most prominent features in the Quatrains are their profound agnosticism, combined with a fatalism based more on philosophic than religious grounds, their Epicureanism and the spirit of universal tolerance and charity which animates them." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy But as he protested against relying on the human conscience—the one element of positive conviction spared by Kant—his ingenuity found few admirers except H. Spencer, who claims him as justifying anti-Christian agnosticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" We may contrast Eleaticism not only with Christianity, but even with popular modern agnosticism. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Often, thought Imrie with a kind of shame, he had himself preached against the "agnosticism," the "irreligion," the "spiritual indifference," of such men. Thirty The attitude of science, as there disclosed, involved a looking to an external world—the objectivism; a division of the field—the specialism; and an experimental, adventurous mind—the agnosticism or positivism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Hence Kant is compelled to extend his agnosticism to the knowledge of ourselves. Kant's Theory of Knowledge He was of too masculine and energetic a cast of mind to feel mere shock as he listened to Huxley, Tyndall, Clifford, Harrison, firmly arguing materialism or positivism or agnosticism or other unhistoric forms. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) He had an acquired ignorance which he called agnosticism. Eden An Episode But agnosticism is a cheap way of establishing a position, and is likely to suggest to the reflective that the whole setting of theodicy is at fault. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance But return to the idea of the divorce of science and life, which is such an easy conclusion of agnosticism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The man who is agnostic or atheist uses them to support his atheism or agnosticism; or even, if he is so unwise, to prove it. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion He then reached a state not of abnegation, but of philosophic open-mindedness or agnosticism. The "Genius" And having nowhere else to go, I naturally drifted into that state of mind which the world calls agnosticism. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography In other words, the search for a theodicy leads to agnosticism. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The difficulty as to the agnosticism of science may be presented in another way. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker For, O my friends, there is a God in heaven, even though the voices of pessimism and agnosticism be raised never so high against him. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy I fully believe that the agnosticism of yourself and myself was produced by the futile attempt to mix and harmonize the wisdom of the world with the philosophy of the Christ. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 But I wandered for years in the desert of agnosticism, famishing and unfed. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography Kant's philosophy was agnostic, and it was this agnosticism which made his use of the ethical argument possible. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance So viewed an instrumental agnosticism is also teleological, but not in any sense of a fixed and static telos. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker As to the origin of things Mr. Wells professes the most profound agnosticism. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' To what cold seas of inchoate regret, of passionate agnosticism as to the world's meanings, if any, does one too often wake, and know not why! Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings Had he not arrived in Simití in a state of agnosticism regarding religion? Carmen Ariza It is a great factor—seeing that the belief of the future will be belief in the God within; and a frank agnosticism concerning the great "Why" of things. Another Sheaf In a word, science must and does recognize an unknowable, or at least an unknowability in things, and agnosticism is accordingly important among the three determining points of science's circumference. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The movement, however, comprised all shades of opinions from pure agnosticism to an idealistic belief in God, virtue and immortality. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark "Will agnosticism let you be absolutely sure his statements are true?" Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 From childhood he had passed through doubt, fear, scepticism, and final agnosticism. Carmen Ariza Such convictions generally imply agnosticism as almost a necessary consequence. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Whatever this may mean psychologically, historically and sociologically it means that a time of agnosticism leads to all sorts of applications of science, such as those, for example, in legislation and in industry. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker An age of disbelief, of indifference, of agnosticism, is not conducive to the construction of such edifices. The Empire of the East Sensibility had overcome his agnosticism, and he had forgotten that it was possible to doubt. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 And the result of his futile efforts to this end had been agnosticism. Carmen Ariza And thus it comes about that a religion, commencing with agnosticism, meets the “craving for divinity,” so deeply implanted in the nature of our race, by passing into what is, practically, a deification of humanity. Religion in Japan In fully appraising agnosticism we need to consider at close range another idea of the positivist. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker And in this agnosticism he was doubtless aided by his fondness for the Sankya school of thought, which is Indian Agnosticism. India, Its Life and Thought At one of the weekly prayer-meetings, conducted by the chaplain, Mr. Penney, and at which Mr. Washington was present, I made some remarks relative to the agnosticism of the late Col. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements This sort of agnosticism appears in Greece as early as the fifth century B.C., when Protagoras's view that "man is the measure of all things" makes extrahuman Powers superfluous. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Nowhere, perhaps, is its agnosticism more conspicuous than in the five main prohibitions, which are addressed alike to clergy and laity. Religion in Japan Still we have, thirdly, the agnosticism of science to consider and appraise. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Gersonides was opposed to Maimonides's radical agnosticism in respect of the nature of God, and defended a more human view. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy There is no room for atheism, agnosticism or materialism. The Critic in the Orient What especially struck Chesterton was the wholesale self-contradictoriness of the literature of agnosticism. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Infinitely removed above that other agnosticism, which cries, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die,” Buddhism starts with the idea of the entire abnegation of self. Religion in Japan So science is aloof, and in being aloof it disfigures and defaces reality, and the argument for agnosticism is consequently unassailable. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Between agnosticism and gnosticism, theism stands midway, and holds to what is true in each. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Indeed, few things have surprised me so much as the thoroughgoing agnosticism that prevails here. A Poor Man's House Continuing his spiritual autobiography, Chesterton describes his gradual emergence from the wonted agnosticism of sixteen through the mediumship of agnostic literature. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study The heart still moans out its sorrow under the darkness of agnosticism, as the ocean sighing under a starless midnight. John the Baptist Buddhism is much nearer than Christianity to modern agnosticism, but it embodies fine moral teaching, and is free from intolerance. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 With agnosticism, it goes so far as to confess that we cannot know how Being made itself or us. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The agnosticism refers not so much to immortality or the existence of a God, as to the religions, the nature of the God, the divinity of Christ, and so on. A Poor Man's House He and Hovan had, inevitably, touched on religion in their discussions, and Hovan had found his agnosticism at first baffling, then amusing. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel Calvinism was pure agnosticism; and she had been educated a Calvinist. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies Did Shakspere, then, derive this agnosticism from Montaigne? Montaigne and Shakspere As it stands we may profess agnosticism in relation to anything from the prospects of a general election within a given period to the question of whether Mars is inhabited or not. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative My agnosticism was bitter in those days, bitter and polemic. A Tramp's Notebook When the waves of agnosticism and atheism have broken over our souls, the ebb tide is so often Faith and Hope. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends This abatement of its claims began in the last century with agnosticism. The Approach to Philosophy He is not blinded with the dogma of either agnosticism or sectarianism, while his sense of humour saves him from many of the errors of the various "Christian" brotherhoods. War and the Weird He was full of contemptuous and effeminate British prejudices against agnosticism and Continental geniuses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Of what takes place in animals we know absolutely nothing, and nowhere would a dose of agnosticism be more useful than here. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour But these straws save us, and, through their means, we eventually reach the shore where doubts cannot flourish and agnosticism gives way to a Faith which we feel more than we can actually define. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends It is important to note that both scepticism and agnosticism agree in regarding perception as the essential factor in knowledge. The Approach to Philosophy Intense fatalism, side by side with complete agnosticism, this is the keynote of the poem. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson Active, serviceable, unimaginative men will often be content with a cheerful agnosticism. The Chief End of Man Their successors, sinking into the agnosticism of pseudoscience, have thus sunk because they have abandoned the methods of science to adopt the methods of ignorant partisanship. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 He remained the old-fashioned New England theologian converted to militant agnosticism. A Daughter of the Middle Border Its epistemological difficulties, always more or less in evidence, have since that day sufficed to discredit materialism, and to foster the growth of a critical and apologetic form of naturalism known as positivism or agnosticism. The Approach to Philosophy With all his learning and his philosophic agnosticism, he was as simple-hearted as a child. Despair's Last Journey In that sense Kant's famous Critique of the Pure Reason may be described as the forerunner of the systematic agnosticism which is set forth in the First Principles of Mr. Spencer. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles "From our standpoint, not very far; from the standpoint of the student mind, to the outer limits of agnosticism." The Brentons The modern way to real belief and understanding lies through denial and agnosticism and free-thinking of all kinds, and Serbia is in a state of transit from peasant Christianity to modern positive Christianity. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Another agnosticism places all sense qualities on a par, but would regard physics and psychology as complementary reports upon the two distinct series of phenomena in which the underlying reality expresses itself. The Approach to Philosophy This actor professed that which for want of a better term might be called parlor agnosticism. The Bibliotaph and Other People These words do not indicate unbelief or agnosticism. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Where Science began to cry "agnosticism," Theosophy came to cry out "gnosticism." London Lectures of 1907 At that time this City was full of atheism and agnosticism. Priestley in America 1794-1804 Finally, in another and a more radical phase of agnosticism, we find an attempt to make full provision for the legitimate problems of epistemology. The Approach to Philosophy His works were widely read and were instrumental in leading to the philosophical agnosticism of the nineteenth century. The Necessity of Atheism If ever a man in public life in these United States was removed the distance of the antipodes from the coldness and bleakness of agnosticism, that man was Abraham Lincoln. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Humour is akin to agnosticism, which is only the negative side of mysticism. George Bernard Shaw Here we come upon an agnosticism that has almost got beyond curiosity. A Book of Prefaces In its critical phase, wherein it makes the general assertion that the natural sciences constitute the only possible knowledge, whatever be the nature of reality itself, it is called positivism, agnosticism, or simply naturalism. The Approach to Philosophy These men furnished the source of a later agnosticism. The Necessity of Atheism For myself I must confess to something of the Doctor's agnosticism. Magic A Fantastic Comedy Atheism, materialism and agnosticism are an old, old trinity, but they had up to our own time been at the mercy of more positive attitudes through their inability to really answer those insurgent questions: Whence? Modern Religious Cults and Movements His undoubted comradeship, his plain kindliness toward the soul he vivisects, is not the fruit of moral certainty, but of moral agnosticism. A Book of Prefaces All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. Damn! A Book of Calumny Mrs. Eddy's recruits were not from theosophy, spiritualism, agnosticism, unitarianism, universalism or infidelity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers This coincident collapse of both religious and political idealism produced a curious cold air of emptiness and real subconscious agnosticism such as is extremely unusual in the history of mankind. The Victorian Age in Literature Christian theism was more sharply challenged by materialism and agnosticism than by a frankly confessed atheism. Modern Religious Cults and Movements All religions, I daresay, are thus projected from the questioning soul of man, and not only all religious, but also all great agnosticisms. A Book of Prefaces The difference between religions is a difference in their relative content of agnosticism. Damn! A Book of Calumny For instance, she tries to show that animal magnetism, spiritualism, mental science, theosophy, agnosticism, pantheism and infidelity are all bad things and opposed to the science of "true being." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers To some degree religion influences local feeling, the Protestant Church being divided into orthodox and liberal factions; there is a large Unitarian party besides, and agnosticism is a qualifying element of religious thought. A Little Swiss Sojourn Dr. Abbott thinks all this so important that he places the agnosticism of Lincoln at the forefront. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict I was curious to see what his ethical agnosticism would make of it. A Book of Prefaces Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism. Damn! A Book of Calumny To react against this abiding danger we need all through the country well instructed and thoroughly educated Catholic leaders who will be in our world of agnosticism and irreligion, the protagonists and apologists of Catholicism. Catholic Problems in Western Canada The apothecary was a coarse good-natured fellow, one of that class of ignorant men upon whose brains the dregs of a refined agnosticism have settled down in the form of arrogant assumption. A Dozen Ways Of Love Mr. Herndon in his biography and Dr. Abbott in an editorial and an oration at Cooper Institute emphasize the agnosticism of Lincoln. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict So we could tell of one who, amid the dry agnosticism of the later half of last century, had felt her faith, not indeed extinguished, but obscured and darkened. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine He looked at Maria, in her pretty little best gowns and hats, setting forth, and a sweet tenderness for her love of God and belief sweetened his own agnosticism. By the Light of the Soul A Novel It will be the counter-ideal to the ideal of agnosticism and materialism so fostered and so prevalent in our neutral universities. Catholic Problems in Western Canada After the age of manhood, comes old age and that is the stage of agnosticism. Bohemian Society This I intend to signify an attitude of pure agnosticism as regards any particular dogma of Christianity—even that of the Incarnation. Thoughts on Religion In thought, agnosticism, the refusal to accept any ideas or principles except on sufficient evidence; in action, positivism, to act promptly in definite and known directions for definite and known objects: these were his principles. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work It would be interesting to know how many, to whom Spencer is but a name, have felt the influence of the agnosticism of which he was the apostle. An Introduction to Philosophy To this I reply agnosticism is consistent, but it is not wise. The Ascent of the Soul When he talked I thought in a way—for I couldn't think much—that after a consistent voyage of agnosticism, I wouldn't be whipped into snivelling belief at the end, by shipwreck. The Lifted Bandage Of all the many scientific men whom I have known, the most pure in his agnosticism—not only in profession but in spirit and conduct—was Darwin. Thoughts on Religion But, as between agnosticism and ecclesiasticism, or, as our neighbours across the Channel call it, clericalism, there can be neither peace nor truce. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mansel's endeavour, out of agnosticism to conjure the most absurdly positivistic faith, had left thinking men more exposed to scepticism, if possible, than they had been before. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant But, for the present at least, agnosticism with Christian ages behind it is a very different thing from agnosticism which has never known Christianity. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future Have you, in America, any of the terrible agnosticism that we have in Europe? T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Now, both these classes are logical, since both, as to their religion, adopt an attitude of pure agnosticism, not only in theory, but also in practice. Thoughts on Religion In order to meet this demand, Huxley invented the word agnosticism, to serve as a label for his own attitude. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Yet it prepared the way for some of the just claims of modern agnosticism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Modern Confucianism and the revival of Chinese learning, resulted in eighteenth century scepticism and in nineteenth century agnosticism. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji And the Ingersoll of Dollar Watch fame crowded out the Ingersoll of brave agnosticism ... and when he wrote now of artists and writers, it was their thrifty habits, their business traits, that he lauded. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative So that the general conclusion of the whole matter must be—pure agnosticism. Thoughts on Religion The militant side of agnosticism was directed against the camp of superstition and armed with the new weapons of exact science. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work They learned that the claim of agnosticism was capable of being viewed as a line of defence, behind which the transcendental magnitudes might be secure. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Instead of the ancient path of asceticism and virtue with agnosticism and atheism, we see the means of salvation put now, and perhaps too easily, within the control of all. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji Educated opinion, at least in Bengal, seemed to be tending towards agnosticism and social revolution. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Modern agnosticism is performing this great service to Christian faith; it is silencing all rational scepticism of the a priori kind. Thoughts on Religion And as ancestor-worship gradually loses its hold and dies out agnosticism will take its place. Myths and Legends of China Indeed, if one may take Spencer as an example, it is not certain that this was not the intent of some of the scientists in their strong assertion of agnosticism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant China has for ages suffered from agnosticism; for no normal Confucianist can love God, though he may learn to reverence him. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji The moment at which the prestige of will began definitely to overcome that of reasoning is marked, as Aliotta has pointed out, by the appearance of James's Will to Believe, just when agnosticism seemed triumphant. Recent Developments in European Thought Hence, so far as reason is concerned, pure agnosticism must allow that it is only the event which can ultimately prove whether Christianity is true or false. Thoughts on Religion But, on the other hand, such limitation as this is no argument for agnosticism. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day These theories had also, for the most part, the common trait that they professed agnosticism as to all that lay beyond the reach of the natural-scientific methods, in which the authors were adept. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Are we to set against such plain testimony the pessimistic agnosticism of a voluptuary like Omar Khayyám? Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality The present condition of this part of biology, as of many others, is one of open-mindedness approaching agnosticism. Recent Developments in European Thought In other words, as regards both, the attitude of pure reason ought to be that of pure agnosticism. Thoughts on Religion On the other, to accept without criticism the sceptical attitude of our neighbours, and keep safely in the furrow of intelligent agnosticism. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Meantime, after positivism was buried and agnosticism dead, a thing was achieved for which Comte himself laid the foundation and in which Spencer as he grew older was ever more deeply interested. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Froude had no more sympathy with the self-complacent "agnosticism" of modern thought than he had with Catholic authority or ecstatic revivalism. The Life of Froude As he often said in his favorite language of metaphor, he "had threshed out the whole subject of agnosticism, and could consequently meet other minds still struggling in its turbid waves." Red Pottage As an illustration of impure agnosticism take Hume's a priori argument against miracles, leading on to the analogous case of the attitude of scientific men towards modern spiritualism. Thoughts on Religion A convert from agnosticism with whom I was acquainted, was once receiving religious instruction from a devout and simple-minded nun. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day There is a reflexion of the consciousness of this fact in his agnosticism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant And an early Buddhist philosopher has left a fragment which gives the very same reason for agnosticism. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 He takes refuge in agnosticism, like an ostrich in a bush. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 For, obviously, it would be wholly incompatible with pure agnosticism to suppose that we are capable of drawing any such distinction in relation to the Divine activity itself. Thoughts on Religion Have you fallen into the soft feather-bed of agnosticism, or the thorny ditch of belief?' Muslin Hostile as he is to the Stoic intellectual dogmatism, Philo is none the less opposed to its converse, intellectual skepticism and agnosticism. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria In much of our modern agnosticism there is the same dark outlook, and agnosticism naturally joins hands with pessimism. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Atheism as a power to deform the lives of men has, for the present, lost its hold, and even agnosticism is respectful. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Hence, the only legitimate attitude of pure reason is pure agnosticism. Thoughts on Religion An instability that required the atheological agnosticism of Spencer in order to explain the inexplicable transition from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous. Tragic Sense Of Life The influence of his Eton tutor had made him a Christian of a simple and convinced type; and his mother's agnosticism had never affected him. The Mating of Lydia The whole philosophy of Buddhism and of modern agnosticism is pessimistic. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 His agnosticism is in his will; he does not wish to see. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 But if we look at the matter from the point of view of pure agnosticism, we are not entitled to adopt so rough and ready an interpretation. Thoughts on Religion In point of fact, the old agnosticism is merely re-enforced by the support it receives from the agnosticism of the West. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Religious agnosticism, like all other forms of the theory of nescience, derives its plausibility from the adventitious help it purloins from the knowledge which it condemns. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher We only raise a doubt whether "the generation after the next" will see agnosticism tried on a clear field. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 And if the dogma of subconsciousness allows of agnosticism, the agnosticism cuts both ways. The New Jerusalem If our agnosticism be pure, we have no right to pre-judge the case on prima facie grounds. Thoughts on Religion For this reason, beyond doubt, has Western agnosticism found so easy an entrance into Japan. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic It is not "idealism," but the scepticism which, in our day, conceals its real nature under the name of dualism or agnosticism, that is at war with the inner spirit of science. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Yet almost every form of agnosticism, ancient or modern, claims to possess a vast amount of very positive knowledge. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 When I say that the agnostics have discovered agnosticism, and have now recovered from the shock, I do not mean merely to sneer at the identity of the word agnosticism with the word ignorance. The New Jerusalem So that at best there is here but one difficulty, since, duality being postulated in the doctrine of the Incarnation, there is no further difficulty for pure agnosticism in the doctrine of plurality. Thoughts on Religion This ready acceptance of Western agnosticism is a second fact that has tended to give the West the impression referred to above. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic A philosophy of life which is based on agnosticism is an explicit self-contradiction, which can help no one. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher The cheerless conclusion of agnosticism was reached in India twenty-four centuries ago, and Confucius expressed it exactly when he said, with reference to the future, "We do not know life; how can we know death?" Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The agnostics have been driven back on agnosticism; and are already recovering from the shock. The New Jerusalem And, whether Theism and Christianity be true or false, it is certain that the teleological argument alone ought to result, not in conviction, but in agnosticism. Thoughts on Religion The impression usually conveyed by this statement, however, is that agnosticism is a new thing in Japan. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic In like manner, religion, which the poet would fain defend for man by means of agnosticism, becomes impossible, if knowledge be denied. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Though it claims to be positively theistic, it seems ready to enter into alliance with any form of atheism or agnosticism, Eastern or Western, against the spread of Christian influence in India. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 In this as in greater things, even if we lost our faith we could not recover our agnosticism. The New Jerusalem As a matter of fact it did not imply this in Browning, but it may perfectly well have implied an agnosticism which admitted the reasonableness of such things. Robert Browning And again when he was triumphantly recording the progress of agnosticism he has: Even the high-churchmen have thrown the Flood overboard. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor Owen's agnosticism had given her freedom and command of this world, but it had made a great loneliness in her life which Owen was no longer able to fill. Evelyn Innes It would prove a strong moral tonic to hundreds of minds now sinking into agnosticism or materialism. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 We can never recover agnosticism, any more than any other kind of ignorance. The New Jerusalem The scientific understanding would plunge us into determinism and agnosticism; from these, faith in the moral law alone can deliver us. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English The Bible's proof of God becomes increasingly necessary to meet the agnosticism and atheism that are the outgrowth of modern mind-worship. In His Image Owen encouraged her to persevere in her agnosticism. Evelyn Innes Their conversations ranged from flower gardens to dry-farms, and from agnosticism to the highest degrees of the celestial glory. Dorian The men received the statement with strict agnosticism; they could not see things with the eye of faith, fortified though they were with tea and tinned meats. The Roll-Call There I leave these ghosts, my mind being in a just balance of agnosticism. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The notorious spread of extreme agnosticism in the last quarter of a century renders it essential for the clergy to hold their places by stooping to the violence of the Professors. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War He was determined to reduce her to his mind, but he was instinctively aware of the danger of refusing her absolution; to do so might fling her back upon agnosticism. Evelyn Innes Huxley said he did not know, which was equivalent to the dogmatic assertion that he did; Gladstone said he did know, which was a confession of ignorance denser than that of agnosticism. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" I find not only my Protestant sympathies in the "Confessions" but a proud agnosticism, and an exalted individualism which in certain passages leads the reader to the sundered rocks about the cave of Zarathoustra. Confessions of a Young Man L. You mean her unbelief, agnosticism, or whatever she chooses to call it. More Bywords Those who cannot accept her agnosticism and her positivism may learn much from her faith in man and from her enthusiasm for humanity. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy If, instead of his winning her to agnosticism, she should win him to Rome! Evelyn Innes My dear Edith,—I have been meaning for some time to write to you about agnosticism, and other matters in your letter which I have left unnoticed. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) But whether it be faith or agnosticism, it must be nothing external to me. De Profundis Their agnosticism is perhaps merely paganism; their paganism, as in old times, is merely devilworship. Creatures That Once Were Men Granted their truth, all that is necessarily true in agnosticism has been arrived at. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy There would be the priest's interdiction ... unless, indeed, he could win Evelyn to agnosticism. Evelyn Innes He confined himself mainly to pointing out the tendency of the evolution doctrine in this form toward agnosticism and pantheism. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom For this reason they had no charity; for charity is a reverent agnosticism towards the complexity of the soul. Heretics In this age of professed and often, no doubt, affected, agnosticism and pessimism, Browning is the foremost apostle of Hope. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry The new method, as developed in sympathy with agnosticism, fails in literature just as science fails to be a complete interpretation of the universe. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy In his own case he could imagine a sort of religious agnosticism. Evelyn Innes The priest shook his head, whether in dissent or agnosticism, but remained mute. The Innocence of Father Brown Huxley's agnosticism was a natural consequence of the intellectual and philosophical conditions of the 'sixties, when clerical intolerance was trying to excommunicate scientific discovery because it appeared to clash with the book of Genesis. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Woman's intellectual development after ages of repression, has resulted with many of the sex, in an agnosticism which, at first liberal, has grown to be a dogmatic materialism. The Woman's Bible For doctrine it teaches agnosticism, and in method it cares mainly for art and beauty of form. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Nearly three years had passed since that time in Florence, and she was now going to put the strength of her agnosticism to the test. Evelyn Innes Materialism is decidedly out of fashion, and agnosticism is less in vogue than a decade or two ago. Understanding the Scriptures Those who maintain that there is no justification for the five-fold division hold that the agnosticism of Carneades was really latent in Plato, and became prominent owing to the necessity of refuting the Stoic criterion. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The criticism which rejects false definitions, and is itself negative, affirms itself as positive and definite, becoming agnosticism; and so on. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic It is a persistent refusal to see what lies behind outward facts which gives agnosticism all its practical justification. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Pious agnosticism is a bauble unworthy to tempt anyone who has been brought up a Catholic. Evelyn Innes He drifted into a sort of agnosticism compounded of mental indolence and discouragement. Saint Augustin Sunderland, the secretary and missionary of the conference, deplored the growing spirit of agnosticism and scepticism in the Unitarian churches of the west. Unitarianism in America For the empiricists of Aesthetic, intellectualism and moralism represent progress; for the intellectualists, hedonistic and moralistic alike, agnosticism is progress and may be called Kant. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic They indicate the form which is likely to be given to ethics if theism and individualism are discarded, and the peculiar effects upon moral life which will be induced by agnosticism. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy He had begged that until she was firm in her agnosticism she should not expose herself to influences which could but result in mental distress, and without any practical issue unless to separate them. Evelyn Innes Its whole struggle has come to an end in doubt and agnosticism and flippancy. The Puritans It joins hands with agnosticism, modernism, and other forms of infidelity and atheism and gives them the strongest support they have ever had. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments The old dreams of heathenism are impossible for us; modern agnosticism will make very quick work of a deism which does not cling to the Christ as the Revealer of the Godhead. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts She applied agnosticism to morals, by regarding good and evil as relative, and as the results, of man's environment. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy She wished to put her agnosticism to the test. Evelyn Innes The vague agnosticism of the present day, which knows only a dim Something of which we can predicate nothing. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Evolution has no quarrel with atheism, agnosticism, modernism, or any other species of infidelity. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments Shall they give place to dogmatic Christianity or, among the most cultured class, to agnosticism? The Reconciliation of Races and Religions She came, at least, to find final satisfaction in agnosticism, to believe that all intellectual speculations on the subject are in vain. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy I wondered whether, in these novel circumstances, he would care to give voice to his agnosticism. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World He may hesitate to identify himself with agnosticism, but he can scarcely avoid discussing it, either in itself or in its effects. Confessions and Criticisms The brute origin of man, infidelity, agnosticism, modernism, atheism and bolshevism, are in harmony, and cooperate in robbing man of heaven and the hope of immortality. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments After her marriage to Francis Newman, it became a real grief to her to find that he was drifting further and further away towards agnosticism. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman The limitations of her art largely lay in the direction of her agnosticism. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy In spite of a ceremonial adhesion to the religion of his fathers, you will find nothing but a profound agnosticism. Mankind in the Making He had followed the lead of modern philosophers and scientists, and had arrived at a mystical agnosticism,--the first step of which was to banish the dogmas of the church as old wives' tales. Young Lives You may call your doubt a mystery, but mystery is only the theological phrase for agnosticism. A History of Freedom of Thought One wonders if she had had any knowledge of the growing agnosticism of her other son, but probably this was unlikely. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman In it is brought out the blended stoicism, humanitarianism, Buddhism, and agnosticism of the author. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Try the experiment, if it may be done without irreverence: read His familiar discourses in the shadow of agnosticism. Joy & Power It has, however, nearly run its course, and the old order must give place to the new, i.e., to agnosticism. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) "Ah! it is one of the results of agnosticism." The Magnetic North And yet he avowed that, no matter what form of religion or theology, atheism or agnosticism, the individual or the nation embraced, the human race remained "indestructibly content, happy, thankful, proud." Mark Twain She was steeped in the doctrines of modern agnosticism. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women There was no agnosticism in his congregation, for he laid down the law and the gospel in a way that discouraged theological speculation. The Earth Trembled But Townsend had no sympathy with agnosticism of this kind. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography From the earliest times of our era, the sneers and taunts of atheism and agnosticism have been directed at the humble believer, who bows down in submission and questions not. Marvels of Modern Science Not, of course, that all Oxford was wholly given over even then to extreme agnosticism. Philistia But the Buddhist position is not agnosticism: it is astonishingly different, as we shall presently see. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Harrison, F. —in Metaphysical Society. —attacks agnosticism. —controversy with: the "Apologetic Irenicon". —attack of, philosophically borne. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Their fierce preservation of the citadel of agnosticism, till they are sure, may make them unhappy and hard-pressed in spirit. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography "We are watching the rise of a new agnosticism," remarked Dr. Bosanquet. Bergson and His Philosophy Scepticism, positivism, and agnosticism agree with ordinary dogmatic rationalism in presupposing that everybody knows what the word 'truth' means, without further explanation. Meaning of Truth For Buddhism is not agnosticism, but gnosticism, and professes to know the unknowable. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation It did not form part of the controversy on hand, though it bore indirectly upon the first principles of agnosticism. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Certainly the man was perverse in his agnosticism; he was stubborn in disbelief. The Blind Spot Some one—who was it?—was telling me of a recent marriage between the daughter of some well-known Church people and a man who made no secret of his agnosticism; the parents acquiescing cheerfully. Born in Exile By scepticism this is treated as an unsatisfactory state of affairs, while positivism and agnosticism are cheerful about it, call real truth sour grapes, and consider phenomenal truth quite sufficient for all our 'practical' purposes. Meaning of Truth And, from the standpoint of psychological evolution, he must of course consider pantheism as an advance upon monotheism, and must further regard agnosticism as an advance upon both. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation This had been the one thing needed to make Miriam as intolerant in agnosticism as she formerly was in dogma. The Emancipated Even a sponge can hold only so much, and I fell back—or shall I say forward—in the path of progress to rest in the dimness of agnosticism. At the Mercy of Tiberius And, indeed, there seemed much reason for believing that Martin, whatever the extent of his secret doubts, was by temperament armed against agnosticism. Born in Exile It joins friendly hands with the agnostic part of kantism, with contemporary agnosticism, and with idealism generally. Meaning of Truth He represents, in an age, the intellectual powers of which tend strongly to agnosticism, that class of minds to which the supernatural view of things is still credible. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Through reading Science and Health and the illumination which followed, I was healed of ulceration of the stomach and kindred troubles, a restless sense of existence, agnosticism, etc. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures There was no more agnosticism in the little group that gathered around The Pilot for the nightly reading. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Most men who confirm themselves in agnosticism are kept at that point by arrested moral activity. Born in Exile It frowned upon these and upon agnosticisms, atheisms, pantheisms, religious doubts, and alterations in judgment—upon anything, in short, that seemed to push a finger against Church and Kingdom. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings And it is becoming the argument of the many emancipatory movements promoting the religions of atheism and agnosticism as a substitute for religion. The Civilization of Illiteracy The Sage's attitude of mind towards religion was one of a benevolent agnosticism, as summed up in his famous utterance, "Respect the spirits, but keep them at a distance." Religions of Ancient China It seemed to me as though half the men I have ever known came and warned me against agnosticism and my materialistic tendencies. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future In Sidwell, however, he had a companion more and more indispensable, and he could not imagine that her faith would ever give way before the invading spirit of agnosticism. Born in Exile He feverishly entered pleasure and swung easily from religious fervor to a complete agnosticism. The Foundations of Personality Their agnosticism is perhaps merely paganism; their paganism, as in old times, is merely devil-worship. Creatures That Once Were Men But agnosticism, as a fashion, was far too reasonable to endure. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft What, for instance, is more characteristic of our age than its tendency to agnosticism? Select Poems of Sidney Lanier The same may be said of his attack on agnosticism in "Acknowledgment". A Biography of Sidney Lanier |
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