Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Re: New Car that runs on Water under 10,000 Sure but what do we do with all those employed in gas think about everything

0 views
Skip to first unread message

Divinity

unread,
Jan 23, 2008, 6:00:06 PM1/23/08
to
of the measure as an aid to
libertines in getting girls they are endeavoring to seduce so injured
in reputation that they can easily capture their prey.

As a sanitary measure, the Acts have invariably proved a failure, as
shown by honestly handled statistics. There have, to be sure, been
many doctors, some of high scientific qualifications, who have
produced statistics strongly tending to prove the sanitary benefits
of such measures on superficial survey. But these statistics have
afterwards been shown to be mistakenly handled or designedly
manipulated to make such a showing. This is not a medical book, and
any extended treatment of figures as to disease would be entirely out
of place in it, so we will content ourselves by saying that during
late years physicians of prominence from every part of the world have
assembled twice at Brussels for Conferences in regard to this matter.
These physicians are in large numbers Continental doctors, the very
ones who have had most to do in enforcing such measures. Each time
the number of opponents to the Contagious Diseases Acts has rapidly
increased, after listening to the testimony from all sides as to
their inutility; in fact, the whole force of opinion at each of these
Conferences, in 1899 and 1902, was against State Regulation, though
there was a division of opinion as to the substitute for it.

In 1903, the Minister of the Interior of France, the country wher


Divinity

unread,
Jan 24, 2008, 3:22:14 PM1/24/08
to
a manifest injustice which is innate in us, of
which we cannot get rid, and of which we must get rid.

Yet no religion has indicated that this was a sin; or that we were born in
it; or that we were obliged to resist it; or has thought of giving us
remedies for it.

493. The true religion teaches our duties; our weaknesses, pride, and lust;
and the remedies, humility and mortification.

494. The true religion must teach greatness and misery; must lead to the
esteem and contempt of self, to love and to hate.

495. If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what
we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.

496. Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and
goodness.

497. Against those who, trusting to the mercy of God, live heedlessly,
without doing good works.--As the two sources of our sins are pride and
sloth, God has revealed to us two of His attributes to cure them, mercy and
justice. The property of justice is to humble pride, however holy may be our
works, et non intres injudicium, etc.; and the property of mercy is to
combat sloth by exhorting to good works, according to that passage: "The
goodness of God leadeth to repentance, and that other of the Ninevites: "Let
us do penance to see if peradventure He will pity us." And thus mercy is so
far from authorising slackness that it is on the contrary the quality which
formally attacks it; so that instead of saying, "If there were no mercy in
God we should have to make every kind of effort after virt


0 new messages