 | 1894 - 784 Seiten
...all I question if his central idea was not put more vigorously by Burke. ' We know,' wrote Burke, ' and, what is better, we feel inwardly that religion is the basis of civil society. We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal. All persons... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1895 - 376 Seiten
...; to reach the highest results in personal life and national character, they j should be religious: We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort. — Edmund Burke. Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1989 - 346 Seiten
...promote the flowering of numerous, weak little sects (XIX 27, p. 580). In contrast, Burke says that we know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that...basis of civil society, and the source of all good and all comfort. . . . First, I beg leave to speak of our church establishment, which is the first of our... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 Seiten
...the other way. But for Burke the established church is the cornerstone of the British Constitution: "We know, and what is better we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good and of all comfort" (p. 186). For the "English people" the establishment of their church is "not . . . convenient, but... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 Seiten
...at least one instance, he even asserts with confidence that feeling is superior to knowledge itself: "We know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good, and of all comfort" (3:350). But this does not tell us just how feelings provide reliable guidance in moral and political... | |
 | John Cannon - 1984 - 208 Seiten
...often oppressed and Vice triumphant: 6 6 Oct. 1711. 7 'We know', wrote Burke, 'and what is b-tter, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil...society and the source of all good and of all comfort . . . God is the awful author of our being and the author of our place in the order of existence ...... | |
 | Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1985 - 320 Seiten
...they held, would restore it in the future was religious belief. As Edmund Burke had said: 'We know, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society.' And religion for the Romantics was not a matter of the individual rational judgment, but of tradition,... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 Seiten
...force that guarantees this order and protects mankind from a Hobbesian chaos of force against force. "We know, and what is better we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society" (Reflections 186). Atheism, on the other hand, reduces all rights to a question of might. Hence the... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1989 - 391 Seiten
...to give precedence to feelings over reason, Crummell cited him with approval. "We know, and indeed, what is better, we feel inwardly that religion is the basis of all civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort."17 Although he was passionate in... | |
 | Robert Lloyd Kelley - 1990 - 492 Seiten
...the fact that the British, in their simplicity and what he saw as their fundamental soundness, knew that "religion is the basis of civil society and the source of all good and of all comfort." They were not misled by the unhallowed fire of atheism, which in his eyes so detestably disfigured... | |
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We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. 
