After rational creatures had, by their criminal conduct, introduced disorder into the divine kingdom, there was no ground to believe that by their penitence and prayers alone they could prevent the destruction which threatened them.
It is implied in a person's being heartily sensible of the loveliness of a thing, that the idea of it is sweet and pleasant to his soul; which is a far different thing from having a rational opinion that it is excellent.
There is a wide difference between mere speculative rational judging anything to be excellent, and having a sense of its sweetness and beauty.
There is not only a rational belief that is holy, and that holiness is a good thing, but there is a sense of the loveliness of God's holiness.
God, in letting in this light into the soul, deals with man according to his nature, or as a rational creature; and makes use of his human faculties.
As the prejudices that are in the heart, against the truth of divine things, are hereby removed; so that the mind becomes susceptive of the due force of rational arguments for their truth.
A rational mind may be, and often is, so narrow and groveling as not to aim at any higher good, to understand its nature or to believe its existence.
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness.
In short, it was the first time in my life that I had a rational conversation (as it is called) with a well-informed young man, and I confess I felt gratified.
Tis the only rational excuse you can assign,' said I.
People get systematically accustomed to the absolute senselessness of scenic representations; look therefore to a rational treatment of the translated librettos.
If we want to work for a rational condition of the theatre in all Germany, we shall never achieve anything in the slightest degree rational unless we begin at some given point, even the smallest.
Lohengrin pieces, for there is no rational cause for refusing H.
This is only my own idea; but what I do feel quite sure of is, that whatever you think right will be best, for you are not only the Herr Hofcapellmeister, but the most rational of all rational beings.
Further, there is no proof of any difference in memory between them, save, perhaps, in a greater tendency for primitive folk to use and to excel in mere mechanical learning, in preference to rational learning.
It is the result of a personal accommodation rather than the formulation of a rational and abstract principle.
The rational element usually invoked as an explanation exerted in reality but very slight influence.
There came a time when, guided by rational reflection on experience, men systematized and regulated the usages which had become current, and thus created positive institutions of credit, defined by law and sanctioned by the force of the state.
It is only when we have grown familiar by imitation with the most important data of perception that we become capable of appropriating knowledge in a more rational way.
Rational Sympathy[149] As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Although the mystic element is always the foundation of beliefs, certain affective and rational elements are quickly added thereto.
Its chief interest in connection with the subject of behavior lies in the fact that it shows the instinctive foundations on which intelligent and eventually rational modes of intercommunication are built up.
Easy communication of ideas favors differentiation of a rational and functional sort, as distinguished from the random variations fostered by isolation.
From Sentimental to Rational Attitudes[131] I can imagine it to be of exceeding great interest to write the history of mankind from the point of view of the stranger and his influence on the trend of events.
You may count heads, you may break heads, you may impose uniformity by force; but on the matters at stake the two elements do not form a community capable of an opinion that is in any rational sense public or general.
It is official Catholic teaching that faith is impossible without a previous rational certitude.
Yet she is too rational a thinker to turn to the easy theory of an outward tempter.
He argued that, as the world had somehow outlived the age of miracles, God must have intended rational evidence to take its place.
It anticipated not merely the rationalistic attitude of modern theology, but also quite a number of the modifications of traditional belief which modern rational and ethical criticism has imposed.
The subtlety and intellectual activity they could not arrest came to be used up in an effort to restate the older dogmas in terms which should be at once conservative and acceptable to the new rational demand.
Even St. Bonaventure was no mystic in the anti-rational sense of Bernard; simply, he applied to theology the reason of Plato instead of the reason of Aristotle.
Abélard believed he would render valuable service to the Church if he could devise rational proofs, or at least analogies, of its dogmas.
The modern Catholic theologian, in his treatise on faith, invariably defines it as an intellectual act, an acceptance of truths after a satisfactory rational inquiry into the authority that urges them.
Nor is it rational to take the paper document called a deed (which is but the evidence of ownership) and call it tangible property having a value in addition to the house itself.
I like to hear how people become happy in a rational manner, better than to be told in the huddled style of an old fairy tale--and so they were all married, and they lived very happily all the rest of their days.
They are by public opinion banished from all rational society; and your ladyship's just indignation proves, that they have no chance of being tolerated by fashion.
Prejudiced by her ladyship, Belinda was inclined to think that Lord Delacour sober would not be more agreeable or more rational than Lord Delacour drunk.
Rational development of existing water-power, means of communication, etc.
That the protest was made, that it was sincere, rational and free from the hyperbola of passion, is the significant fact.
Therefore, by education and environment he could "accomplish with ease and certainty the Herculean labor of forming a rational character in man, and that, too, chiefly before the child commences the ordinary course of education.
The greatest of my gifts being a consummate capacity for doing nothing, I cannot even point to boredom as a rationalstimulus for taking up a pen.
But, judging from the pictures they give us of their interior states, we might think many of our rational companions as myriad-eyed as naturalists tell us are some insects.
They find little sympathy in their yearnings for a rational life, and soon give up the effort, deciding that they are too peculiar.
But Greek Gnostics and Antwerp Jews do not dance round a man's wife and wave their hands in her face and send her into swoons and trances about which nobody knows anything rational or scientific.
And the supreme and most practical value of poetry is this, that in poetry, as in music, a note is struck which expresses beyond the power of rational statement a condition of mind, and all actions arise from a condition of mind.
Boys, like other rational beings, must have their interests and amusements.
Parents, brought up to be the slaves of custom, carry on the imbecile traditions that have been handed down to them from former generations, without stopping to consider whether they are rationalor foolish.
It cannot be doubted that the institution of a rational method of developing the mind of the individual would sweep away all these anomalies.
There should be, under a rational system of education, no such thing as a stupid child.
To this was added the still more persuasive observation, that he was a gentleman of family and fortune and figure, to whom no rational objection could be taken by any woman whose heart had not been previously engaged.
Indeed, any rational being, unless very far gone in drink or self-delusion, must have suspected foul play.
And it is this rational ground of belief which the writers of the Gospels, no less than Paul, and Eginhard, and Fox, so little dream of offering that they would regard the demand for it as a kind of blasphemy.
And the latter supposition is so vastly more probable than the former, that rational men will adopt it, unless satisfactory evidence to the contrary can be produced.
Fifty years later, Steno reopened the question, and, by dissecting the head of a shark and pointing out the very exact correspondence of its teeth with the glossopetrae, left no rational doubt as to the origin of the latter.
Thus far, it is true, we have succeeded to “lay that broad foundation of modern society which promises the noble superstructure of rational liberty.
I sink at once in the scale of being: I cease altogether to be a rational or accountable being.
Domestic slavery is said to treat the slave as a mere chattel, a thing, not an entity, and hence deprives him by provision of law of the right of being treated as a rational being as he is, and not a mere thing.
Otherwise they may herd together, as in the wilds of Africa; but they cannot dwell together as rational beings.
No: obedience is never applied, except as a figurative term, and especially by the apostles, to any but rational and accountable beings.
I revere the constitution and constitutional laws of England, because they are in conformity with the LAWS of God and nature; and upon these are founded the rational rights of Englishmen.
Hence arises the idea of natural right: that is, the right with which I am endowed by the constitution of my nature as a rational being.
Upon this broad base would not rational creatures, who are expressly fashioned for each others' society in this world, naturally be led to cultivate in common the greatest degree of intellectual perfection?
Something very poor and mean, in never daring to think for oneself, and in sacrificing every inclination and faculty to the tyranny of arbitrary control; but you will speedily rise into the consequence of a rational creature.
Several are usefully employed in applying alterations, and endeavouring to bring about a more healthful action of the rational powers.
Think of such folly as you thought when you lived at Geierstein--that is, during all the rational part of your life, and this great terrible prejudice will sink into nothing.
