There is no book in any language that deals concretely with the evolution of morality on so grand a scale or in so authoritative a way.
It will be an authoritative book for many a day on the subjects with which it deals.
Proudhon, it is the most sublime phenomenon of our moral life,[98] a divine revelation more authoritativethan the Gospel itself.
I cannot quite subscribe to the view of Professor Sidgwick, that "in the recognition of conduct as 'right' is involved an authoritative prescription to do it.
The moral lawgiver lays down his rules in order that they should be obeyed, and they are authoritative in so far as they have to be obeyed.
Yet in spite of the absence of authoritative teaching, we have learned that an art dependent upon other arts, as decoration is upon building and architecture, is bound to follow the principles which govern them.
Between them comes a handsome nymph with marked features, dark hair richly waved, and authoritative bearing.
It may be the existence of God, or it may be a particular view of human nature or of human evolution, but it is there, and in either case the authoritative character of moral precepts exists for such as accept it, and for none other.
An Authoritative Life of one of the greatest Reformers of the Nineteenth Century, and the only one now obtainable.
So far, then, it is clear that the complaint that Freethought ethics has nothing about it of a compulsive or authoritative character is either a begging of the question or it is absurd.
This was at one time included as a medicine in the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, but it has now fallen out of such authoritative use.
Contraras hushed the incipient rebellion with anauthoritative wave of his hand.
Subsequently, Father Ydens and his notary have been quoted and requoted as authoritative witnesses.
He was curt, even rude, and somewhat dictatorial; his manners impressed as authoritative in the sickroom, but were resented in the market-place as insolent.
One of the most recent authoritative publications by a German anthropologist urges that "the apes are to be regarded as degenerate branches of the pre-human stock.
What an authoritative position he has won for himself in the world of the mind!
But the thing that we chiefly need is informed and authoritative criticism.
Daniel Webster, in the most solemn and authoritativetones Massachusetts has ever employed, assured his fellow-Senators that, in his judgment, California was not worth a dollar.
Since creed and sect-making first began, the Word and Spirit have not possesed governing power and authority in Protestantism; but men have usurped that place and prescribed authoritative rules of faith and practise for the people.
This was brought about when, to quote Mosheim's words, the bishops grasped the power and authority "to prescribe authoritativerules of faith and manners.
It is a contemporary and authoritative account of what was the mind of the leaders of the movement; and it has a significance beyond the occasion which prompted it.
The cry of Romanism was inevitable, and was soon raised, though there was absolutely nothing in them but had the indisputable sanction of the Prayer Book, and of the most authoritative Anglican divines.
In the University, up to this time, there had been no authoritative protest against Dr.
See page 219 of Brown's Hebrew Lexicon, the most authoritative lexicon in English, for the above explanation.
All these authoritative characters will come down and join hand in hand in bringing about this work.
The authoritative explanation, "I like this, I dislike that," will no more pass current nor carry weight.
We look upon his case as a very instructive one, affording as it does clear evidence of the absolute incompatibility between any authoritative system of dogma and the free pursuit of truth.
I have closely followed his own "Relacion," which, whilst admittedly a piece of special pleading, must remain the most authoritative document of the events with which it deals.
In the "Cambridge Modern History" our most authoritative writers on this epoch have definitely pronounced that there is no evidence acceptable to historians to support the view current for four centuries that Cesare Borgia was the murderer.
Lee, in the War between the States; together with an Authoritative Statement of the Strength of the Army which he commanded in the Field.
After this authoritative declaration, I made, in my place in the Senate, the honorable amends to Mr. Adams, which was equally due to him and to myself.
I will take the letter of the president of the Bank of the United States as being official in this case, and most authoritative in the distress department of this combined movement against President Jackson.
Besides important contributions to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and many periodicals, he wrote an excellent and authoritative biography of Sir James Outram (2 vols.
The object of the Index was to provide an authoritative list of all the names that have been used, with reference to the author of each and to its place of publication.
It was set down by him in his last and least authoritative institute, and it is certain that he has been followed neither by the great lawyers of his time nor by the judicature.
From what authoritative source are we to draw our doctrines?
To be told, in this authoritative manner, that she was wicked was a new and delightful experience.
Authoritative and undisputed figures show how baseless are the suggestions that Nelson's tactical procedure at Trafalgar caused his fleet to suffer needlessly heavy loss.
The overwhelming weight of authoritative opinion is in favour of the view that the project of invasion was real.
Like most easy natures, the positive assertion of the stranger, and withal a certain authoritative air of command, overcame what slight objections the Padre might have feebly nurtured during this remarkable interview.
In addition to the apocryphal books named, Origen also accepted as authoritative the Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of the Egyptians, Acts of Paul, and Preaching of Peter.
Then, he remembered the threatening note in the authoritative voice and the flat, deadly thoughts he had noted as secondaries.
It would be a little irregular for a district Fiscal chief to make direct contact with the Coördination Agency's comptroller, but there was nothing like getting the most expert andauthoritative advice available.
