The Rationalist kept the arts and cast aside the religion.
For observe: I said the Protestant had despised the arts, and the Rationalist corrupted them.
Were we disposed to quote rationalist authorities, the argument against Paul would be far more decisive.
What shall we think of such reasoning from the platform of a presumable rationalist movement?
Incidents like the above, however, should change every lukewarm rationalist into a devoted soldier of truth and honor.
Torture, so far from being peculiarly mediæval, was copied from pagan Rome and its most rationalist political science; and its application to others besides slaves was really part of the slow mediæval extinction of slavery.
Or rather those things it failed to include, through the limitations of this rationalist interval between mediæval and modern mysticism, were at least not of the sort to shock us with superficial inhumanity.
The Moslem monotheism was, or appeared to be, the more rationalist religion of the two.
Many orthodox people have in this matter the indestructible advantage of being unable to understand the rationalist argument--as may be very clearly seen in the debate between Mr Bradlaugh and the Rev.
So savagely complete, indeed is the attack that as one gazes upon the ruins of Kidd, Drummond, and Balfour, a feeling of sympathy with the fallen philosophers must take the place of joy in the whizzing of the rationalist shells.
But, although the book may enrage the philosophic doubters, it is bound to make a glorious show for the robuster members of the rationalist party.
The Rationalist school admitted this, but held that that was due to the fact that science was not sufficiently thought out.
The rationalist school, whom we described in the last chapter, were inclined to regard all knowledge as analytical.
He saw that Hume's criticism of causation raised problems for which the rationalist had no answer, and yet that the position reached by Hume was incompatible with the existence of science.
But the history of eighteenth century controversy showed that, in spite of rationalist methods, neither morality nor religion could attain that certainty and general agreement which marked the mathematical sciences.
In England the attempts made to found morality upon rationalist principles produced systems too barren to withstand the attack of empiricism fortified by the growing interest in history and anthropology.
The rationalistconceived of thought as simply apprehending the nature of the real, freed from the illusions of sense perception.
Mansel gives a proper diagnosis of rationalism in the following words: "The rationalist .
Everything demanded that he should be writing for the Rationalist Press, but where was he?
It is important that we recognize that neither the positivist nor the rationalist is able to identify the nature of the fact or datum to which they refer.
But he was a rationalist among rationalists, and in the end his reason subdued his demon.
Queed was caught, like many another rationalist before him, by the stirring beauty of the burial service of the English church.
But with these things the Sagas have little to do; where they are in relation to this common rationalisthabit of mind, it is all to their good.
The rationalist mind has cleared away all the sentimental and most of the superstitious encumbrances and hindrances of strong narrative.
But there are other wonderful things in the Iliad and the Odyssey which are equally improbable to the modern rationalist and sceptic; yet by no means of the same kind of wonder as Calypso or the Sirens.
The Rationalist Is published by the Independent Religious Society semi-monthly.
Before proceeding to describe the trial and condemnation of Joan of Arc, let me state the attitude of the Rationalist toward Joan of Arc's claims to inspiration.
The Oxford Movement was, out of the very roots of its being, a rational movement; almost a rationalist movement.
There is nothing that is so profoundly false asrationalist flirtation.
The rationalist movement had been just strong enough to conquer some of her outposts, as it seemed, for ever.
Footnote 88: See Chamberlain, The Invention of a New Religion, published by the Rationalist Press Association.
His pamphlet is called The Invention of a New Religion, and is published by the Rationalist Press Association.
It must, however, be borne in mind that the word "rationalism" is meant to cover a great variety of opinions, and we have said comparatively little about him when we have called a man a rationalist in philosophy.
Nevertheless, as I pointed out in the section above referred to, Locke is not a rationalist of malice prepense.
The rationalist Lecky said that the simple record of His three brief years of active life had done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists.
To the rationalist the word "create" in the sense of absolute origin of substance is a word without meaning.
The rationalist recommends right conduct because in increasing the present total of human happiness you increase your own happiness now, and render future happiness more easily attainable by others.
The rationalist asks, What was it that the consciences of these Christian men said on the subject of slavery only fifty years ago?
The rationalist asks, How is this explicable from the supernatural standpoint?
To the rationalist there can be nothing supernatural.
The rationalist answers (a) that the test of rational morality never varies; that the ability to apply the test does vary with the higher education of the masses.
In the first case the rationalist asks, How is it to be determined when any individual is reliable who professes to be the recipient and interpreter of God's commands?
The rationalist affirms that there are only two logical standpoints; one, that of submission of opinion to arbitrary authority.
These are only a few of many like-charactered illustrations which entitle the rationalist to return on the supernaturalist the weight of the Rev.
Thus Ibn-Ezra was at once an inexorable critic and a slave of the letter of the Law, a rationalist and a mystic, a deeply religious man, and an astrologer.
A Rationalist will fly from a book by a Supernaturalist as rapidly as this latter from one by a Friend of Light.
But the atomistic and unrelated sensations which he had in mind were purely fictitious products of his rationalist fancy.
One of our duties is to know truth, and rationalist thinkers have always assumed it to be our sovereign duty.
Simply and innocently affirmative statements are good enough for empiricists, but unfit for rationalist use, lying open as they do to every accidental contradictor, and exposed to every puff of doubt.
Next, we find a loyal clinging to therationalist belief that sense-data and their associations are incoherent, and that only in substituting a conceptual order for their order can truth be found.
No rationalistaccount is possible of action, change, or immediate life, 244.
But he clung fast to the old rationalist contempt for the immediately given world of sense and all its squalid particulars, and never tolerated the notion that the form of philosophy might be empirical only.
This is the supreme insight of rationalism, and to-day the best must-be's of rationalist argumentation are but so many attempts to communicate it to the hearer.
I am as good a son as any rationalist among you to our common mother.
Rationalist critics have asserted that the first apostles had no idea that the gospel was meant for the world, and that they limited its light to the children of Abraham.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rationalist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adherent; philosopher; sophist; thinker
