 Man's use and function (and let who will not grant me this follow me no further, for this I purpose always to assume) is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness.  John Ruskin, Social Reformer - Stran 45avtor: John Atkinson Hobson - 1898 - 357 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1844 - 680 strani
...chiefly useful to man, it is necessary fir=t to determine the use of man himsdf. Man's use and function is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to fulfil this function, is, in the pure and first sense of the word, ttifful to... | |
 | 1846 - 534 strani
...would be unjust alike to him and to our readers to withhold:— " Man's use and function (and let him who will not grant me this follow me no further, for...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to fulfil this function is, in the pure and just sense of the word, useful to us.... | |
 | 1846 - 552 strani
...to the Church and to the Religious Tract Society. ' Man's use and function,' he says, ' (and let him who will not grant me this follow me no further, for this I propose always to assume) is to be a witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory by his... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 strani
...restingplace for centuries yet to come." The proposition that the " use and function of man is to be witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness," can only hold good of man as a civilized being, not of man in the savage or partly savage state : for... | |
 | 1861 - 398 strani
...chiefly useful to man, it is necessary first to determine the use of man himself. "Man's use and function is, to be the witness of the glory of God. and to...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness.— Whatever enables us to fulfil this function, is, in the puro and first sense of the word, useful to... | |
 | 1856 - 386 strani
...chiefly useful to man, it is necessary first to determine the use of man himself. Man's use and function is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to fulfil this function, is in the pure and first sense of the word, useful to... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 strani
...let him who will not grant me this follow me no further—is to be the witness of the glory of G^'d, and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to fulfil this function is, in the pure and first 8'ensc of the word, useful to... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 strani
...chiefly useful to man, it is necessary first to determine the use of man himself. Man's use and function is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to fulfil this function, is in the pure and first sense of the word useful to us... | |
 | 1861 - 492 strani
...sketch of Buskin's demonstration of the moral office of the theoretic faculty.* " Man's use and function is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance...his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness. Whatever enables us to-fulfill this function is, in the pure and first sense of the word, useful to... | |
 | 1862 - 548 strani
...true aim, and its true means. Its aim, or end—hear our author. ' Man's use and function (and let him who will not grant me this, follow me no further,...advance that glory by his reasonable obedience, and his resultant happiness.' And this use and function man is to fulfil in his employment of art, as by... | |
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