 | Jeffrey Richards - 2005 - 556 lapas
...unprofitable; is entirely devoid of intellectual force; is neither elevating nor educating, but simply dull. The best that can be said for it is that it is honest - at least honest in the sense that there is no evidence of traffic in money or even baser coin.'... | |
 | Piers Paul Read - 2006 - 260 lapas
...religion in which he was raised. 'Christianity has not made man secure or happy or even dignified.' The best that can be said for it is that 'it is a civilizing agent. It helps cage the beast.' He never appears to consider that its claims might be... | |
 | A.1. conversations - 1875 - 96 lapas
...from the best of our fellow creatures, and that prayer is at all times a fanciful waste of time, and that the best that can be said for it, is that it is harmless ? Mrs W. I should never call a fanciful waste of time harmless. Eeligious fancies appear to... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1925 - 910 lapas
...greatly excited over the issue, and one may well question the intrinsic value of the contest. Perhaps the best that can be said for it is that it is typical of the interests and activities of the federal government during that time. SPECULATION When... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1900 - 588 lapas
...Gospel was the Greek translation of the Aramaic Matthew. This is the most uncritical sort of fancy play. The best that can be said for it is that it is possible, or that it is an ingenious conjecture. But it is greatly to be hoped that the term Logia,... | |
 | 1907 - 930 lapas
...nor meet the demands of progress. It therefore gave way to reason, to intelligence, to moral insight. The best that can be said for it is that it is instinctive. Good and useful as instinct may be it is not comparable to reason. And man must determine... | |
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All this may seem plausible : but the best that can be said for it is, that it is an hypothesis that saves some difficulties; but there is no sort of proofs to make it appear to be true. 
