| 单词 | irreligion |
| 例句 | Fazzino: Part of what I do is look at the everyday experience of irreligion and specifically how nonbelievers navigate the cultural landscape of Las Vegas. Atheists are no less moral: The sad delusion of the Christian Evangelical movement 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z If one of the advantages of irreligion was an acceptance of others, that benefit was strangely echoed in the visual plane, which granted the things seen within the photographic rectangle a radical equality. Second Sight 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Even before the War of 1812, conservative ministers had pushed back against irreligion and immorality by fighting to preserve state funding for churches in Massachusetts and Connecticut, the last states to require it. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z They said it undermined royal authority, encouraged a spirit of revolt, and fostered “moral corruption, irreligion, and unbelief.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “The problem is that irreligion and secular values are being forced on people of faith.” Losing our Religion: Challenges to faith increase in courts 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The climax of a rising tide of irreligion came in 1909, when a crowd in Tehran witnessed the public execution of a reactionary ayatollah who had opposed the constitutional revolution. Trump’s dangerous delusions about Islam | Christopher de Bellaigue 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “What rights of conscience can atheism, irreligion, and licentiousness pretend to?” he asked with his negative answer already in hand. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Was it surprising that the president of Yale accused Maine frontiersmen of “prodigality, thoughtlessness of future wants, profaneness, irreligion, immoderate drinking, and other ruinous habits?” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “As rates of irreligion continue to rise, not only here in the U.S.A. but all over the world, we need to understand secular people, secular culture, and secularism as a political and ideological force.” University of Miami Establishes Chair for Study of Atheism 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z We don’t think religion or irreligion belongs on public property, but if there’s going to be a so-called public forum where Nativity scenes pop up, we’re going to be there too. No war on Christmas: In many communities, officials opt to surrender 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Eliot’s irreligion struck many of her contemporary readers as paradoxical. Good without God 2012-10-08T22:05:00Z The irreligion of laymen, the carelessness and unworthiness of fathers and husbands are responsible for the baneful influences of the confessional. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Mr. Grainger vindicated medical men from the charge of irreligion, and contended that medical and anatomical studies, if properly pursued, served to demonstrate the truth, not only of natural, but of revealed religion. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z There is a vast deal of irreligion in the Bible, and there is a good deal of immoral thought in the Bible; but I agree with him that it is neither inspired nor infallible. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Mr. Bonney had proposed a union of all religions against irreligion; and this would have been in harmony with the policy adopted by many States of the American Union. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z When the Revolution began, the motto of the rebels was "Spain and Honor;" now it had become a cry of irreligion and destruction. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z We find a hundred excuses for our irreligion: there is the cause. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It points to practical irreligion, an ever widening distance between a man's inward convictions and his outward practice. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z I have turned a monk leaving her service; this has been an act of irreligion and not of religion on my part. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z The sympathies of the young G�rres were from the first strongly with the French Revolution, and the dissoluteness and irreligion of the French exiles in the Rhineland confirmed him in his hatred of princes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The efforts of the leaders of irreligion were ably seconded by the various systems that arose towards the close of the eighteenth century, as so many developments of Deism and the worship of nature. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z It had no share in the Divine polity framed for the chosen people; the outward mark of its uncircumcision was a true symbol of its irreligion and debasement. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z This was the kind of irreligion that in these days excited Mrs. Gano's ire more than any other. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z With a few exceptions of unbelief so blasphemous as to shock ordinary irreligion, are all men truly his friends? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z The pestilence of irreligion which you detest, will insinuate itself imperceptibly with those manners, phrases, and principles which you admire and adopt. Considerations on Religion and Public Education 2011-10-19T02:00:19.747Z For even irreligion took the form of active rebellion against God, rather than disbelief in his existence. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z He was sadly afflicted to see the irreligion of the youth of Israel, irreligion much more widespread than he had at first supposed. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z And its correlative is this, irreligion is the irrational. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z I am now prepared to proceed to the examination of the question before us, and I hope to prove that fanaticism, luxury, corruption of morals, and irreligion, do not necessarily occasion the ruin of nations. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z This was a mere academic and transitional conceit, inspired by the first youthful impulses of his recession from extreme irreligion to lukewarm acquiescence in accepted religious conventions. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z But science to him was as impossible as was he to polite society; Spencer gave him leave, he thought, to consider his atheism, irreligion, and sensualisticism as scientifically authorized, and logically justified. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z It is the strong connection between religion and optimism as evinced in a high birth rate, between irreligion and pessimism as shown in a falling off in the population. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z He has been superseded by quite a distinct species—the modern blackguard, with his blatant scepticism and blasphemous irreligion. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z I am firmly convinced that, politically speaking, irreligion never existed among any people, and that none ever abandoned the faith of their forefathers, except in exchange for another. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z You have always answered my request by telling me that her bad example--her irreligion and hardness of heart--would have a ruinous effect upon me. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Homer, it was assumed, in telling his stories of battles of gods and heroes, meant quite another thing; otherwise he would be guilty of irreligion. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Our birth rate, on the contrary, is falling with the growing irreligion in certain classes. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Through dishonesty, oppression, and irreligion, the national life had so weakened that its destruction was imminent from inward decay and outward attack. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Having denied the destructive effects of fanaticism, luxury, and immorality, and the political possibility of irreligion, I shall now speak of the effects of bad government. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z This is exactly the opinion that Copernicus took up, after an interval of eighteen centuries—and he too was accused of irreligion. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z You see, the newspapers and preachers then Were raising such a hullabaloo About irreligion and dishonesty, And calling old Altgeld an anarchist, And comparing us to Robespierre And the guillotine boys in France. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z But however that may be, sensuality in all history has been almost always allied to irreligion. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z That irreligion does not tend toward assurance of immortality I regard as an incontrovertible position. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z The writer then charges Hunt with irreligion, indecency, sensuality and licentiousness. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z 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 It is the custom of our adversaries to accuse us Liberals of irreligion. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The captain would call that—let me see—would he call that irreligion? The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z In the midst of much irreligion, my parents put vital religion into the very marrow of my bones. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z He denounced the pride and irreligion of the clergy, and ascribed all the corruptions of the time to their pride and wealth. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z I refer to the famous argument by which Bishop Berkeley flattered himself that he had for ever put an end to "scepticism, atheism, and irreligion." A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z Cannot a man go to chapel, or, in other words, leave off going to church sometimes, without being taxed with irreligion? The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z If we have to choose between occasioning irreligion in one person by attending Mass and occasioning irreligion in many persons by staying away from Mass, we should rather permit the scandal of the one. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z He was feeling the uneasiness which comes over right-minded youth at any sign of irreligion in the old. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z This, in spite of the tendency toward what might be called, for the want of a more expressive word, irreligion. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Thus the attitude of the proletariat towards religion would be entirely free and independent if the ground of its irreligion were merely a theoretic and misleading incursion into the dogmatism of natural science. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z These were the times when profligacy and irreligion were reputable and respectable things. A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield 2010-12-24T03:00:34.583Z So, if religion "seems to make men mad" in politics, I suppose irreligion makes them sober in politics. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z It is assumed that the expression bears the savour of irreligion. A Cursory History of Swearing That was the kind of scandalous irreligion exhibited in the places where formerly the healthy evangelical doctrine was preached. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster I believe that a very large part of the immorality, the irreligion, the skepticism and crime into which young men fall is due to their being so coldly and cruelly let alone by Christian families. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Ignorance, profligacy, irreligion, and superstition, were to be seen every where. A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield 2010-12-24T03:00:34.583Z If religion is not good in politics, I suppose irreligion is good there; and, really, it is often enough introduced there. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Without being understood to array ourselves on the side of this baneful expression, we desire to acquit it at once of all suspicion of irreligion. A Cursory History of Swearing Her irreligion was shared by multitudes of contemporaries who had never been called upon to renounce one form of Christianity and profess belief in another in order to gain a crown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" There, perhaps, you have an eternal symbol of the difference between the Englishman, who takes his irreligion as seriously as his religion, and the Frenchman, who takes his irreligion as smilingly as his apéritif. The Book of This and That 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 religion of the land, also, is on our side; the irreligion, the idolatry, the infidelity thereof, all of that is opposed to us. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Men often see only what irreligion really is and means when they find it existing in a woman. Bye-Ways Various stories were circulated about the looseness of Walid’s manner of life; Yazid accused him of irreligion, and, by representing himself as a devout and God-fearing man, won over the pious Moslems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" We seem to think that the secular cannot be religious, and, consequently, that the religiousness of one day or of one place will make amends for the irreligion of the rest of life. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews After all, he told himself on reflection, his dislike for Good was based on his antagonism for the smug hypocrisy, the senseless irreligion that he had himself attacked only that morning. Thirty It is not in the calm retreat, the silent shade, that vice and irreligion can be confronted and changed into purity and piety. The Religious Life of London Now behold that this Michelangelo, a man of such astounding fame and universally admired, has exposed to the world as much impiety and irreligion as perfection of painting. Michelangelo The President was under the political advice of the conservative set, whose firm conviction he shared, that the new Republic was advancing headlong into irreligion. A History of the Third French Republic I remember that on one occasion he began to abuse my Germans in good earnest for their irreligion and infidelity, of which I, indeed, knew nothing. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 I thought that if this was religion, then what was irreligion? Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches As for respecting the race, and, above all, that fatuous rabble of burgesses called “the public,” God save me from such irreligion!—that way lies disgrace and dishonour. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) It is not irreligion which such men hate; but the religion of the man, or the party, whom we are set against; now hatred is certainly no part of the religion of the gospel. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales The imputation of irreligion made against him shows at what an early period the antagonism of polytheism and scientific inquiry was recognized. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It was hard to go out from his presence, all aglow with the enthusiasm which he felt and inspired, and to hear him spoken of as a teacher of irreligion, a pest to the community. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 All these poets are religious:—the occasional irreligion of Virgil’s poetry is painful to the admirers of his general taste and delicacy. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The great evil," says a Schleswig divine, "is not the oppression which falls on the German tongue, but the irreligion and consequent demoralisation which Denmark has imported into Schleswig. The History of Freedom With the Negro’s deficient ministry, religion becomes irreligion. The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 Nations plunged in the abyss of irreligion must necessarily be nations in anarchy. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition We shall probably see this unnatural strife prolonged for many years to come;—to be succeeded by some fresh form of irreligion. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford —It is with this view of religion, this feeling about it, that the evolutionists have to deal when they endeavor to free themselves from the charge of irreligion. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Religion had no occasion to rectify the results of learning when irreligion had ceased to pervert them, and the old weapons of controversy became repulsive as soon as they had ceased to be useful. The History of Freedom “A libertine,” said Frank, significantly, “reviles women just in the same way that licentious priests lay the blame of the disrespect with which parsons are treated on the irreligion of the laity.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative He was summoned before the magistrates of Utrecht to defend himself against charges of irreligion and slander. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Where is the special irreligion in all this? Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Prayer and the use of the sacraments are either seriously neglected or gradually given up, and the blighting influences of irreligion rapidly spread and overrun all the departments of life. The Shepherd Of My Soul There came, amongst other evils, materialism and covetousness and irreligion; overweening arrogance, an impatient contempt for the rights of the weak, a mania for world dominion, and a veritable lunacy of power worship. Right Above Race He accuses Rousseau of irreligion and of bad faith; he denounces him to the temporal power as animated "by a spirit of insubordination and of revolt." Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts We see the age of free thought stating the innate religion of free thought; as Renaissance Italy painted paganism in religious disguise with the innate irreligion of its day. Vigée Le Brun We cannot say that Cardinal Newman indicates how humanity will suffer from the "coming storm of infidelity and irreligion." Arrows of Freethought Birds of a feather, proverbially, flock together, and the same touch of irreligion may quite possibly suffice to make certain dukes and certain commoners kin. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications Their ornaments of public worship were plundered, and their vows of irreligion were recorded with enthusiasm. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The ignorance and the irreligion of the land have fully avenged themselves, and have been consumed in turn in fires of their own kindling. Leading Articles on Various Subjects It rarely happens that these kind of people do not fall into every excess of licentiousness, irreligion, and theft, and into the most outrageous consequences of hatred to their neighbors. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Cardinal Newman told his hearers that "a great storm of infidelity and irreligion was at hand," and that "some dreadful spiritual catastrophe was coming upon them." Arrows of Freethought Johnson had the ear of the nation: his immense authority reconciled it to loyalty, and shamed it out of irreligion. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Several types of social customs must be considered as moderately good; and we cannot condemn, as decidedly bad, anything but barbarism, irreligion and a superabundance of knaves and fools. Pius IX. And His Time He was clothed in the blue blouse of Radicalism and irreligion, and the faint down upon his upper lip suggested that he must be nearing fifteen. Ghetto Comedies The natural result is to drive such persons into irreligion. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 It is remarkable, that those stately pyramids, which have so long been the admiration of the whole world, were the effect of the irreligion and merciless cruelty of those princes. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Moved by these glowing fancies, her susceptible spirit, in these tender years, turned away from atheism, from infidelity, from irreligion, as from that which was unrefined, revolting, vulgar. Madame Roland, Makers of History It is of no use to suppose that Italy is advanced to a state of irreligion, and so requires a system of Godless education. Pius IX. And His Time But it is always Critias's political crimes which are adduced in this connexion, not his irreligion. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Many men are driven to irreligion through its abuses. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 Two propositions, each of which separately is compatible with the most exalted piety, formed, when held in conjunction, the groundwork of a system of irreligion. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) History tells us in its every page, that the decline and downfall of nations have ever been caused by irreligion and immorality. Public School Education As has been seen, the Holy Father himself complained bitterly of the increase of irreligion and immorality under their ill-omened auspices in Romagna. Pius IX. And His Time Then he launched a new series of maledictions against lack of respect and growing irreligion. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere The misfortune that I speak of is not with such men, but with the uneducated in religion and science, who are more than anxious to find an excuse for irreligion. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 Every form of religion and irreligion found an asylum in his states. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) About three short years ago a pamphlet was published in which we find detailed the efforts made in France to spread irreligion by means of bad education. Public School Education The statistics of illegitimacy, of infant mortality, of ignorance and irreligion, and of destitution in Kingston, are shocking. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Practically, the advantage was for the Christian part of the population, and irreligion, though not proscribed, was discouraged. Lectures on the French Revolution They have been also often seen to travel upon the Lord's day, whereas they hold it irreligion to travel upon an holiday. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) For this reason the strenuous type of character will on the battle-field of human history always outwear the easy-going type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy In England irreligion and socialism are publicly taught. Public School Education Thus, in a single page, does M. Mérimée place before us a picture of the times, with their mixture of fanaticism and irreligion, their shameless political profligacy and private immorality. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 I feel sure that amidst prevalent irreligion, nothing is so much needed as a definite statement of what religion is; and that men should learn to recognize its vascular connection with every department of action. Humanity in the City Should I wish their irreligion destroyed by an army of Turks, or their licence subdued by a power that would make them slaves? Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters The accounts of his deportment on the scaffold effectually refute the charges of irreligion and atheism, which some writers have brought against him, unless we make up our minds to believe him an accomplished hypocrite. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History On their banner is inscribed 'Spread of Education'; but under this device is hidden the scheme of propagating irreligion. Public School Education I had only one mistress; and as to the irreligion,—I let others do as they like, why attack me?' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Readers of our day are surprised when they look into this work, and wonder what has become of all the irreligion. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The religious wife will never excuse a tendency to irreligion in her husband, and though he may be far from being immoral, she is unhappy if he does not participate in her devotions. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources All causes for irreligion and vulgarity were to be suppressed, and no man was to be molested for his religious opinions. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad Sentiment, profession, obtrusive reverence, and fault-finding scruples had revolted him, even when he thought it a proof of his own irreligion to be provoked. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Both by his example and his active exertions, Jason, the unworthy successor of Aaron, sought to obliterate the distinction between Jew and Gentile, and bring all to one uniformity of worldliness and irreligion. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History So far from being inclined to irreligion, as some ignorant bigots insinuated, few men possessed a more devout habit of thought. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions To this exclusion of papal influence from her councils the Romanist will attribute their irreligion, and the Protestant their success. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 When I am at pains to justify my religion, I am already doubting; and for common opinion doubt is identical with irreligion. The Approach to Philosophy To his violences of temper he added a reputation for irreligion. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. The cry against them was that of ignorance, irreverence, irreligion, republicanism, disloyalty, etc. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada No amount 64of literary acquisitions can atone for the want of a spiritual mind, for frivolity, heartlessness, and irreligion. The Young Maiden We have, that is to say, been swayed by the spirit of irreligion rather than of religion. Third class in Indian railways But this phenomenon is nevertheless highly significant in that religion and irreligion are placed in close juxtaposition, and the contribution of religion at its inception thereby emphasized. The Approach to Philosophy Was it astonishing that the French nation, just recovering from a debauch of irreligion and anarchy, should begin insensibly to yield to the charms of a wooer so seductive? The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Faith and infidelity, good and evil, religion and irreligion, are all one for him who has arrived at the second stage; for where love reigns, none of them exist any more. Mystics and Saints of Islam Truth, and right, and justice have had very little to say to this war, which is an outbreak of materialism and irreligion. Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics We shall have no earthly wishes, no tendencies to disobedience or irreligion, no love of the world or the flesh, to draw us off from supreme devotion to God. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) The suspicions of his irreligion proceeded, in a great 222measure, from his dread of hypocrisy; instead of wishing to seem better, he delighted in seeming worse than he was. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II It is quite enough that many periodicals do, in effect, take a course which tends to irreligion, by leaving this great subject wholly out of sight. The Young Man's Guide Is it meant to be contended that error is stronger than truth; folly more powerful than reason, and irreligion than religion? A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father Yet the irreligion of the West was painted darker than it really was. Union and Democracy "Never to fail in his prayers" is the highest commendation a Turk can receive; and so prejudicial is the suspicion of irreligion, that even libertines dare not disregard the notices of the Maazeen. History of the Moors of Spain "Optimism and pessimism; materialism and spiritualism; theism, pantheism, atheism, morality and immorality; religion and irreligion; lofty resignation and passionate revolt—each and all have inspired or helped to inspire the creators of artistic beauty." Personality in Literature I trust, without irreligion, one may say he is mistaken. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author If religion is guilty of unreason, irreligion is guilty of apathy. The Moral Economy The police were active, their methods of investigation elaborate and thorough, yet the rigour of the law and the energy of the police signally failed to suppress irreligion and immorality in eighteenth-century France. The Task of Social Hygiene What irreligion means at this point is not fully understood by most unbelieving folk because most unbelievers do not think through to a conclusion the implications of their own skepticism. Christianity and Progress Irreligion is followed by fanaticism, and fanaticism by irreligion, alternately and perpetually. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The irreligion of the Third Republic is a dogmatic irreligion. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 There is a sense, then, in which both religion and irreligion are to be justified. The Moral Economy The profligacy and irreligion of the court was widely imitated by all classes, till patriots, watching with gloomy forebodings the downward progress of their country, began to despair of her future fate. A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn Saw in Shelley the lowest form of irreligion, but a later progress towards better things. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Something was said, too, that I could not catch, about her irreligion. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 The ignorance and brutality of the monks, the corruption of the spiritual courts, the absolute irreligion in which the Church was steeped, gave him serious alarm. Short Studies on Great Subjects He willeth also the unbelief of the unbeliever and the irreligion of the wicked and, without that will, there would neither be unbelief nor irreligion. The Faith of Islam The irreligion of the age had not seized him. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo He thought irreligion, and a general corruption of manners, gained ground everywhere. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March My dear friends, that kind of religion has done more harm than most kinds of irreligion. True Words for Brave Men It is generally true that actors lend their influence to intemperance, licentiousness, and irreligion. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning And sorrow and agony desire other companionships than worldliness and irreligion. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Holland, finding herself unable to keep pace with the quick step of French recklessness and irreligion, bethought herself of finding refuge in Gallic politics. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology If enmity and hatred exist, irreligion is preferable.” The Promulgation of Universal Peace ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says: ‘If religion be the cause of disunity, then irreligion is surely to be preferred.’ Bahíyyih Khánum The prevailing state of the world is one of irreligion, which is bound to result in anarchy and confusion. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era But this impending dissolution of a common standard of morals does not mean universal depravity until some great reconstruction obtains any more than the obsolescence of the Conventicle Act means universal irreligion. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought God takes note of all offerings which we bring, whether it be a lacerated body in an age of persecution, or a sorely-tried but yet purely-kept conscience in a period of devastating irreligion. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology This is the significance of the statement that if religion becomes the cause of warfare and bloodshed, irreligion and the absence of religion are preferable among mankind. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The abuses in the former age, arising from overstrained pretensions to piety, had much propagated the spirit of irreligion; and many of the ingenious men of this period lie under the imputation of Deism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Abdu’l-Bahá also foretold a period of great social upheaval, conflict and calamity as an inevitable result of the irreligion and prejudices, the ignorance and superstition, prevalent throughout the world. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era Again, the world round these painters had become sad and proud, instead of happy and humble;—its domestic peace was darkened by irreligion, its national action fevered by pride. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 To exaggerate their riches, to make the sins of an individual appear to be common to all, to attribute to them all vices; calumny, murder, irreligion, sacrilege, all is permitted in times of revolution. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements To religion, education, and morality—not to irreligion, ignorance, and licentiousness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The service of God and the sincere profession of Christianity are much decayed, and in place of it, partly papistry, partly paganism and irreligion have crept in. The Age of the Reformation In a talk given in November 1919, He said:— Bahá’u’lláh frequently predicted that there would be a period when irreligion and consequent anarchy would prevail. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era Such opprobrious terms as infidelity, irreligion, rationalizing tendencies, naturalism, contempt for the Scriptures, etc., are freely used. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Consequently it belongs to irreligion that, through doubtful faith, a man does things indicative of irreverence towards God. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Even the man who rejects all religion satisfies himself with the cant phrase of irreligion. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals The humanists, too, fell into deep disgrace, charged with self-conceit, profligacy and irreligion. The Age of the Reformation When slander is sworn to before the courts, it acquires a fourth malice, that of irreligion, and is called false testimony. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals 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 To tempt God is one of these; wherefore it is a species of irreligion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province But this difficulty does not arise from the religion which begins in us, but from the irreligion which is still there. Pascal's Pensées The irreligion is too spontaneous to be called philosophic doubt; it is merely impiety. The Age of the Reformation Popular education comes more and more to mean popularized irreligion. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals It is the cry of thousands of Catholics sinking into the sea of unbelief and irreligion. Catholic Problems in Western Canada Now irreligion, of which the temptation of God is a species, is more opposed to the virtue of religion, than superstition which bears some likeness to religion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province England, at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, was the principal centre of irreligion. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism It is not given to irreligion to destroy a religion on earth. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution If true, it is one sign of the world's spiritual unrest, the decay of unbelief; and irreligion thus assists at its own disintegration. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals The final result of this proselytizing effort is not a permanent increased membership for these churches, but rather indifference and irreligion among our foreign element. Catholic Problems in Western Canada Therefore by buying or selling a spiritual thing, a man treats God and divine things with irreverence, and consequently commits a sin of irreligion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Wealth to this mother meant pride, selfishness, and irreligion. Divers Women There was vice in irreligion, and of this Voltaire always savoured. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution And since faith is nothing if not practical, since it is a habit, it follows that irreligion, neglect to practise what we believe will destroy that habit. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals They follow us to church on Sunday less and less willingly, until finally there is rebellion in their hearts and irreligion in their souls. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future For this reason the precept forbidding superstition is placed before the second precept, which forbids perjury that pertains to irreligion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province This would be a victory of time over eternity, a victory of irreligion over religion. The Evolution of Love The most intemperate counsels were thought the most pious, and a regard to the laws, if they opposed the suggestions of these fiery zealots, was accounted irreligion. Dialogues of the Dead If, sometimes, libertinage, which reasons but little, leads to irreligion, the man who is regular in his morals can have very legitimate motives for examining his religion, and for banishing it from his mind. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense To church they go seldom or never; all the clergy complain of their irreligion as beyond comparison. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 On the other hand, irreligion hinders religion by preventing man from honoring God after he has acknowledged Him. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province France was punished for irreligion, for closing the temples, for abandoning the sacraments and commandments, for losing faith in all except selfish interest and so-called progress, for contempt of the Bible and pride in science. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Yet notwithstanding the irreligion which is spreading fast throughout the land, little tolerance is shown for adherents to other than the Greek Church. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels There is a connection between this phenomenon and the increasing atheism in our country, the increasing irreligion, and the craving for pleasure and dissipation, which always goes hand in hand with irreligion. Atlantis Religion cannot fail to be changed by the neighbourhood of irreligion. Is Life Worth Living? Accordingly we must consider in the first place, superstition and its parts, and afterwards irreligion and its parts. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province He was moral, chiefly in a negative sense, and was not inclined to irreligion. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses One of them imputed to Voltaire, and particularly to Rousseau, the irreligion of the age. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy There is yet one more circumstance to be taken into account in estimating the extent to which the clergy were responsible for the irreligion and immorality which prevailed. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century But enough, perhaps, has been said to explain why the appearance of Culture and Anarchy so profoundly disquieted the "old Liberal hacks" and the popular teachers of irreligion. Matthew Arnold The former come under the head of superstition, the latter under that of irreligion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Once more, there is degradation in the life of irreligion. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series So much the worse for the pious man who happened to live in an epoch of impiety; he suffered, like the rest, the public misfortunes consequent on the general irreligion. The Life of Jesus It was about the middle of the century when irreligion and immorality reached their climax. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Pulci must answer for his own irreligion: I answer for the translation only. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals Therefore also this kind of temptation is a species of irreligion. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Doubtless, too, in much of the science that is current, there is a pervading spirit of irreligion; but not in that true science which had passed beyond the superficial into the profound. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library These epicurean priests had not the violence of the Pharisees; they only wished for quietness; it was their moral indifference, their cold irreligion, which revolted Jesus. The Life of Jesus In the same year Secker declared that immorality and irreligion were grown almost beyond ecclesiastical power. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Puffendorf observes, that he had been much obliged to Mr. Hobbs, whose hypothesis in this book, though it favours a little of irreligion, is in other respects sufficiently ingenious and sound. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II He shocked Mendelssohn, and even Wagner, by his irreligion. Musicians of To-Day They seem to resemble each other; but are as wide apart as irreligion and that highest religious life which, transcending all external observances, seems to the mere religious formalist to be identical with it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy They could not be kept separate; and the favour shown even by religious people to such partisan zealots as Dr Sacheverell, evidenced, and at the same time promoted, the public irreligion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 His immense authority reconciled it to loyalty and shamed it out of irreligion. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century His infidelities were chiefly in the direction of politics, not of religion or irreligion, and they were of a less gay and frivolous character than those of a generally similar kind in earlier dates. Matthew Arnold But irreligion was manifest in all their vain observances, and in the conservation of their traditions, rather than any active and positive religion. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. In short, the naturalist, the pagan, takes the world as it stands; it is just what it appears; the essence of his irreligion is that he perceives nothing in it that needs to be explained. Preaching and Paganism Our argument, we know, may be met by saying that its chief influence was exerted on those whose habits of dissipation, immorality, and irreligion kept, them aloof from the religious instruction of the priest. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The evils against which Scott had to contend were of a more subtle and complicated kind than simple irreligion and immorality. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century "Wherever irreligion prevails and true religion declines, there I manifest myself in a human form to establish righteousness and to destroy evil." Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Then Brahman made over that sharp weapon to the blue-throated Rudra who has for the device on his banner the foremost of bulls, for enabling him to put down irreligion and sin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Statesman and nobles in the most prominent positions combined professed irreligion with open profligacy, while the lower classes were left, through the indolence and selfishness of the clergy, almost without religious teaching. A History of English Prose Fiction Every voice raised to encourage the economic delusions of Socialism is a voice on the side of vulgarity and irreligion. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster The number of such instances made some excuse for those who so misunderstood the Christian liberalism of such men as Locke and Lord Somers, as to charge it with irreligion or even atheism. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century If the ministers of God become the creatures of the king, despotism and irreligion must inevitably ensue. The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century Some appear to make very little difference between decency and indecency, morality and immorality, religion and irreligion. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader This prophet, who lived several ages after their return to Canaan, was sent to reprove their irreligion and the immoralities, which abounded among them and had infected every order of men. Sermons on Various Important Subjects The tone in which this odious young man spoke of his father, his coarse mention of mine, and his low boasting of his irreligion, disgusted me more than ever with him. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Perhaps also greater liberty of thought and speech caused irreligion to take a more avowed and visible form. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century It is the old story: so-called scientific philosophy, the origin and inspiration of which is fundamentally theological or religious, ending in an atheology or irreligion, which is itself nothing else but theology and religion. Tragic Sense Of Life His mind swung round from frank irreligion, to a sort of superstitious credulity, awestricken yet joyful, that made him cling to the saving virtue of the stone. Children of the Mist Penalties were enacted against "irreligion, immorality, drunkenness, debauchery, and profaneness." Montcalm and Wolfe The lash that was wielded was far-reaching; all the vices of the age—irreligion, blasphemy, drunkenness, extravagance, vainglory, loose living—fell under its sting. Audrey They could point also to the obvious fact that thorough scepticism, or even mere irreligion, often found a decent veil under plausible professions of a liberal Christianity. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century In the northern ideas of witches there was no irreligion concerned with their lore. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Scepticism and irreligion prevailed, until Wesley and Whitfield sprang up to protest against formalism and atheism. Thrift To this the pride, the irreligion, the immorality, the desire of knowledge and beauty for their own sake alone, had brought the noblest, wisest, and most useful city in Italy. The Poetry Of Robert Browning To that celibacy, and to all the evils that have sprang from it, may be ascribed much of the irreligion current in France to-day. Abbe Mouret's Transgression These cosmic solicitudes, it may be, are the last penalty of irreligion. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Although it was only about twenty years since the death of Solomon, irreligion and vice had corrupted the nation. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters To turn men from intemperance, improvidence, and irreligion, and to induce them to seek their happiness in the pursuit of proper and noble objects, requires earnest purpose, honest self-devotion, and hard work. Thrift That tomb is placed in Rome, but it is in Venice that 322this class of tombs reached their greatest splendour of pride, opulence, folly, debasement and irreligion. The Poetry Of Robert Browning They grow up in irreligion, like their fathers. Abbe Mouret's Transgression These violations spring from irreligion, and irreligion is found in every land. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic As we have shown the doctrine of matter to have been the main support of scepticism, so likewise upon the same foundation have been raised all the impious schemes of atheism and irreligion. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy The French law makes a clear and logical distinction between crime on the one hand, vice and irreligion on the other, only concerning itself with the former. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion If I display the effects of avarice and ambition, of bribery and corruption, of gross immorality and irreligion, those who are the least conversant in things, will easily know where to apply them. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Democracy is the way to the new aristocracy, as irreligion to religion. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I For the educated minority, especially, the inevitable reaction is to complete skepticism, to apparent irreligion. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Your front bench man will always be an exploiter of the popular religion or irreligion. Back to Methuselah When the shepherds thus deserted and starved their flocks, it was only natural that the sheep betook themselves to every form of schism, irreligion, and immorality. Sydney Smith I never saw the King so animated before," observed Madame, when he was gone out; "and really the comparison with Julian, the Apostate, is not amiss, considering the irreligion of the King of Prussia. Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici Our author would thus, inadvertently indeed, lead himself into that gulf of irreligion and absurdity into which, he alleges, I have boldly plunged. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) The irreligion now so rampant is a recent phenomenon in Japan. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Goethe is Olympian: the other giants are infernal in everything but their veracity and their repudiation of the irreligion of their time: that is, they are bitter and hopeless. Back to Methuselah In the end Newton was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln, and threw himself with the energy of a newborn apostle upon the irreligion and brutality of Olney. Cowper The experience of that night completely and forever cured poor Jack of a common error which has brought many a poor soul into the wild surges of unbelief and irreligion. Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys But he was not equally indifferent about those principles of irreligion which they accused him of having propagated. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Then Religion is a disturbing force; but so, manifestly, is irreligion. The Making of Religion The charge of irreligion seems based upon the misconception or the misrepresentation of their orthodox critics. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Unlike the previous revivals in England, they warred not against the rulers of the Church or State, but only against vice or irreligion. Cowper He may have to wait long, and very likely pass out of this world, before he see any abatement in the triumph of disorder and irreligion. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 He read prayers, rather in a strong nervous voice, than in a graceful manner; and although he has been often accused of irreligion, nothing of that kind appeared in his conversation or behaviour. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. It is a complaint often made by religious historians, that no church can sustain its spirituality unimpaired through two generations, and that in the third a total irreligion is apt to supervene. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed This is idle prate: He who from irreligion thoroughly purged the state! A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 That it could possibly be treated in the way I have mentioned shows how very deeply irreligion had spread. Dawn of All At all times, since Christianity came into the world, an open contest has been going on between religion and irreligion; and the true Church, of course, has ever been on the religious side. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 How can such people appreciate art; how can they appreciate religion—nay, how can they appreciate irreligion? The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian He put his torch to the tinder of irreligion at the first Sunday meeting after his return. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West In this class of persons, irreligion is a mere form of discontent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Superstition, deadly superstition, may co-exist with much learning, with high civilization, with any religion, or with utter irreligion. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 He referred to the spreading of mammonism and irreligion by which efforts to instruct and Christianize the heathen were paralyzed. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Of course Dr. Potter looked upon this production as the height of irreverence and irreligion, and proposed to excommunicate the authors of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of the Antonines, both the interest of the priests and the credulity of the people were sufficiently respected. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 The old religion then excites enthusiastic attachment or bitter enmity in either party; some leave it with anger, others cling to it with increased devotedness, and although persuasions differ, irreligion is unknown. Democracy in America — Volume 1 In the very title of the Treatise in which his notions on this subject are unfolded, he professes his purpose to be to remove "the grounds of scepticism, atheism and irreligion." Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author As for respecting the race, and, above all, that fatuous rabble of burgesses called 'the public,' God save me from such irreligion! - that way lies disgrace and dishonour. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 Querulousness of mind tends in fact rather towards irreligion; and it has played, so far as I know, no part whatever in the construction of religious systems. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature While the theological way of looking at the universe has steadily yielded, there has been no sign of any tendency toward irreligion. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom All these different creeds, at which the frivolous irreligion of the eighteenth century mocked, are modes of expression of the religious sentiment. What is Property? It was weird enough sight, that time-honoured service of adoration, forced upon these wild people after so long a period of irreligion. The Lost Continent Yes," I dishonestly responded, "his polished irreligion--" "Oh, no! The Cavalier To this exclusion of Papal influence from her councils, the Romanist will attribute their irreligion, and the Protestant their success. Stones of Venice [introductions] Yes; it was for us to prove how disloyalty goes hand in hand with irreligion, and all other vices come trooping in the train. Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") "Roses smell sweeter when planted near garlic, and in like manner there are souls which grow more fervent in places where libertinism and irreligion seem to drag all virtue at their chariot wheels." The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Are we not, and with abundant reason, thankful that Jacobinism is rendered comparatively feeble and its deadly venom neutralized, by the profligacy and open irreligion of the majority of its adherents? The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge And thus, in the words of Charles Devas, "We have of late years, with perverse ingenuity, been preparing the way for the low birth-rate of irreligion and the high death-rate of civil disorder." Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians The old religion, then, excites enthusiastic attachment or bitter enmity in either party; some leave it with anger, others cling to it with increased devotedness, and although persuasions differ, irreligion is unknown. American Institutions and Their Influence He experienced a wild impulse to spring to his feet and protest; he wondered if he only of all the persons in this crowded church recognized the shocking irreligion of that vow. The Puritans "You are giving a proof of irreligion which is in bad taste," said Laura. Cæsar or Nothing That mother who intrusts her daughter to a nunnery school, is chargeable with the high crime of openly conducting her into the chambers of pollution, and the path to irreligion, and the bottomless pit. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality. Tremendous Trifles Such a use of religious observances shows more than anything else could do, the utter irreligion of the man who can make it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII I will venture to add a few quotations:— 'Whenever there is a decay of religion, O Bhâratas, and an ascendency of irreligion, then I manifest myself. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions In almost every sermon there were allusions to the immorality and the irreligion that reigned in the town. Cæsar or Nothing We must get rid of this sort of religion, my friends, at all risks, in order to get rid of all sorts of irreligion, for one is the father of the other. Twenty-Five Village Sermons Say it is enthusiasm, say it is a mistake, say it is irreligion, if you will, and still I reply that the time is not distant. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs He accuses Burns first of irreligion, but St. Paul protests against his exclusion on that ground. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Religion is, further, the foundation of wisdom, inasmuch as irreligion is the supreme folly of creatures so dependent on God, and so hungering after Him in the depths of their being, as we are. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Here all distinctions between good and evil are speedily lost, if they were ever known; and men, women, and children become unnatural in vice, in irreligion, in manners and appearance. The Englishwoman in America It is pleasant to turn from his irreligion to his philosophy. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius All sects attempted to oppose such an influx of irreligion. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut If licentiousness, which reasons but little, sometimes leads to irreligion, the man of pure morals may have very good motives for examining his religion, and banishing it from his mind. Good Sense Is it an indispensable part of our material progress and wonderful civilisation that vice and crime and utter irreligion and hopeless squalor should go with it? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Frances Wright preached communism and sex license in the name of irreligion. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates The Episcopal Church, at the late Triennial Convention, took up and determined to make a more vigorous effort to deal with the problem presented by the irreligion of the poor and the dishonesty of church-members. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 Among the literary adventurers of the age who led wild lives in the London taverns Marlowe is said to have attained a conspicuous reputation for violence and irreligion. A History of English Literature The eminent persons therefore who ascribe our falling birth-rate to irreligion and so forth, either speak without knowledge or with some sort of knowledge beyond my ken. Mankind in the Making Prosperity produced irreligion; irreligion brought chastisement; chastisement brought repentance; repentance brought the removal of the invader—and then, like a spring released, back went king and nation to their old sin. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Frank almost laughed at the free and easy request, though he felt at once pained by the man's irreligion, and abashed by his Stoicism;—would he have behaved even as well in such a case? Two Years Ago, Volume I He did so, in the approved way in that day of irreligion, in a political squib. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Their sombre religion has passed into a sombre irreligion. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough His irreligion, however, seems to have been rather the fluctuating of a mind that had lost its hold on truth for a time, than the scepticism of one confirmed in error. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Though the affair was but a whim of youth, more odious than poetical, it caused some talk, and raised around the extravagant host the haze of a mystery, suggesting fantasies of irreligion and horror. The Life of Lord Byron It is a struggle between religion and irreligion, powers of light and powers of darkness. Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation ‘I see hundreds who have what you call religion, with whom I should scorn to change my irreligion.’ Yeast: a Problem They are shocked by the irreligion of Massachusetts, and by Theodore Parker. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Sin lifts bars against success: the root of failure lies in irreligion. The Warriors This argues, beyond a doubt, that Swift was in that state of constitutional irreligion, irreligion from a vulgar temperament, which imputes to everybody else its own plebeian feelings. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Religion had fallen into a controversial wrangle between contradictory dogmas; the most earnest of the Reformers have given us the blackest pictures of the prevailing irreligion and moral anarchy, rampant products of theological acrimony. England under the Tudors He was a prominent member of the exiled Court; but his open irreligion, his flighty character, and his continual plotting as an adherent of Prince Rupert, alienated him from the party of Hyde. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 They could not be kept separate; and the favor shown even by religious people to such partisan zealots as Dr. Sacheverell, evidenced, and at the same time promoted, the public irreligion. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 "The one the cause of irreligion and of self-destruction; "The other the devout offering of piety on the altar of God. Personal Experience of a Physician An honest scholar, an upright and original thinker, could hardly escape the reproach of irreligion or of heresy. The Eve of the French Revolution If so, the answer is easy: religion was degrading: but heavier degradations would have arisen from irreligion. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Herbert smiled a gentle smile of calm superiority at this vehement outburst of natural irreligion. Philistia There is only one religion for me: that which my soul knows to be true; but even irreligion has one tenet; and that is the sacredness of marriage. Getting Married They seem to be very like that theism or natural religion, which Christians profess to confound with atheism or irreligion which is their exact opposite. Emile Under the shadow of that arrogant face MacIan could only fall back on the obvious answer: "But what about a man's irreligion?" The Ball and the Cross You find empiricism with inhumanism and irreligion; or else you find a rationalistic philosophy that indeed may call itself religious, but that keeps out of all definite touch with concrete facts and joys and sorrows. Pragmatism He was a short, stout man of hasty temper, who was disgusted with the indifference and irreligion of his parishioners, and his services were the shortest and baldest possible. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; The suspicions of his irreligion proceeded in a great measure from his dread of hypocrisy; instead of wishing to seem better, he delighted in seeming worse than he was. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 The dark half of the picture is formed by pride, bigotry, irreligion, greed of gain, immorality, and prodigal ostentation. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 He tries to discuss religion with me—or rather, I should say. irreligion. God's Good Man “In the whole city of Florence there never was born, in my belief, a man of such irreligion or of such sordid avarice.” Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini There was no balm in the religion I had learnt, or in the irreligion I had adopted, for wounded self-love. In the Days of the Comet One complained of disrespect; another of carelessness; a third of disobedience; a fourth of irreligion. Joseph II. and His Court As his abilities could not be questioned, he was charged with irreligion and immorality. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 He preferred to brood over his coarseness, his caddish ingratitude, his irreligion. The Longest Journey We, therefore, hold it responsible for whatever of sensual impurity and whatever of irreligion, as well as for whatever of occasional and sporadic benefit there may be bound up in its organic life. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes The pupils feel this, and they leave this atmosphere, not fed on irreligion, but indifferent.... The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Other great discoverers, though they may not have been charged with irreligion, have had not less obloquy of a professional and public nature to encounter. Character In that centre of corruption, of scandal, of irreligion and unbelief, a few malignant men, bought by foreign gold, occupy themselves in destroying in our Spain the deeds of faith. Dona Perfecta To sanctity she made no pretence, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The suppression of the Society was hailed as a veritable triumph by the forces of irreligion and rationalism. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 Every form of religion and irreligion found an asylum in the States. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The Apostles themselves were an organised band of social antagonists, who contended with pride, selfishness, superstition, and irreligion. Character The city was of their building, at once a lasting testimony of their crimes and devotion, their weakness and genius, their religion and their irreligion. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ Charles still burns with indignation at her father's irreligion and personal ill-treatment. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius Franciscans and Dominicans had preceded him thither, but the scandalous example of irreligion and immorality set by the colonists had made it nearly impossible for these devoted men to win converts amongst the pagan races. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 Two propositions, each of which separately is compatible with the most exalted piety, formed, when held in conjunction, the ground-work of a system of irreligion. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 We should be churchmen, but somewhat lukewarm churchmen, inasmuch as those who care very much about either religion or irreligion are seldom observed to be very well bred or agreeable people. The Way of All Flesh He soon drew upon him the eyes of all Italy, partly by the fabulous luxury of his life, partly through the reports which were current of his irreligion and his political plans. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Raise the fallen standard of the old du Guenics; show to this century of irreligion and want of principle what a gentleman is in all his grandeur and his honor. Beatrix Yet German Humanism had little, if anything, in common with the flagrant irreligion and immorality of the Italian school. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 How can you expect the masses to become religious and obedient when they see irreligion and want of discipline above them? The Village Rector She went to church, but disliked equally those who aired either religion or irreligion. The Way of All Flesh These two sentences of the Pope's homily only made Madame de Granville and her director accuse him of irreligion. A Second Home To which we may add the further remark that the greater the irreligion, the more violent has often been the religious reaction. Laws That there was no real truth in the charge of irreligion, the allusions in the Speed letters abundantly prove. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War They do not escape the almost inevitable consequence of making irreligion penal. Laws If laws are based upon religion, the greatest offence against them must be irreligion. Laws |
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