At present the race is apparently not more than seven or eight thousand years old, and is only "in the infancy of human reason," compared with what it will be five or six thousand years hence.
The omnipotence of government and laws to mould the morals of peoples; the subordination of all knowledge to the goddess of utility; the deification of human reason; and the doctrine of Progress.
Self-confidence was restored to human reason, and life on this planet was recognised as possessing a value independent of any hopes or fears connected with a life beyond the grave.
And thus each of these principles practically affirms and corroborates the other, and both unite to overthrow all definite revealed religion, and to prostrate at the feet of human reason the dicta of the everlasting God.
I fear I shall shock Ambrosio, but I cannot help vindicating a little the philosophical results of human reason, which it must be allowed are entirely hostile to his ideas.
You, like all other sceptics, make your own interpretations of the Scriptures and set up a standard for divine power in human reason.
Again, as has just been shown, natural phenomena are in definite relationship to human reason.
There is the element of rationality (implicit in external phenomena) which has responded to the workings of human reason.
Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner, nor is an evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing.
Acting upon Luther's principle of private judgment others, regardless of their inspiration and infallibility, undertook to subject the Scriptures to the authority of human reason.
If I proceed to treat of it," said Bacon, "I shall step out of the bark of human reason, and enter into the ship of the Church.
The acknowledgement of a divine order in human history, of a divine law in human reason, harmonized with the noblest instincts of the Elizabethan age.
If the Divine Being does a thing once, He is, judging by human reason, likely to do it again.
He had a human reason once, no doubt: but he has gambled it away.
Now it is nothing else than that deep, plausible scepticism, of which I spoke above, as being the development of human reason, as practically exercised by the natural man.
I want no proof of this save those that burn in my own individual consciousness,--I do not need a miserable taper of human reason to help me to discern the Sun!
Human reason revolts at it,--and after all, make as light of it as you will, reason is the only thing that exalts us a little above the level of the beasts.
Difficulties involved in Luther’s standpoint; poverty of human reason, power of the devil, etc.
According to Luther the Church had, even from the outset, given to human reason a larger sphere than was due to it.
Human reason, the perfection of the universe and the words of revelation all teach-- Man's soul is part of Deity, and as immortal as its Creative God.
His conclusions brand the Great Architect of the universe as an incompetent and wasteful profligate, and is contrary to all analogy in human reason, to all law of proportion and compensation, and to "the eternal fitness of things.
His first book was the physical universe, His second book was man and human reason, conscience and experience.
Let us grieve at the dark shadows flung by theologians athwart God's light upon those who believe that human reason, conscience, and experience, as well as Scripture, are the books of God.
The true saint is a profound sceptic; a total disbeliever in human reason, who has more than once joined hands on this ground with some who were at best sinners.
In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.
He was imbued with the spirit, and was a master in the practice, of the inductive logic; and he has left us some of the noblest examples of the efficacy of that great instrument of human reason in the discovery of truth.
I ask, hereafter in this controversy, Should not this matter of the pride of human reason be a weapon of attack in our hands, an accusation against Trinitarians, instead of a charge which Unitarians are to answer?
It is said that Unitarianism encourages the pride of human Reason.
So that Orthodoxy after all its sneers against the pride of Human Reason, depends for its own life upon the correctness of human reasonings,—and then erects the results of this process of fallible reasoning into the Essentials of Salvation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human reason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
