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Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

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Christianity is more than mere fables and myths; it is also the truth. Every event which its history records, is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to agree to or to put into practice right away.

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Spencer "was incapable", our critic haughtily re marks, "of discerning the difference between a homogeneity in matter, necessarily and blindly tending toward a heterogeneity, and such a law of organism [sic], progress, and growth as requires a spiritual intelligence to originate and maintain it." Perheps he was a poor man! or perhaps he thought he had better discern and formulate progress where he could do it to the best advantage, and leave the postulating of spiritual intelligences to those who had a greater talent than he for building in the region of the unverifiable.

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An inductive science of nature presupposes a science of induction, and a science of induction presupposes a science of man.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Noah Porter

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Born: December 14, 1811
Died: March 4, 1892 (aged 80)
Bio: Rev. Noah Thomas Porter, III was an American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College.

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