 I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.  The Literary World - Page 1221885Full view - About this book
 | Bible - 1896 - 806 pages
...system of Calvin is " awful and immoral." In support of this statement, he quotes JS Mill as saying, "I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures." Mr. Moore says, that these words of Mill are "a noble assertion of immutable morality," against a religion... | |
 | 1865 - 992 pages
...the names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say in plain terms that I will not. Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing that he shall not do, — he shall not compel me to worship him. 1 will call no being good, who is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...the names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say in plain, terms that I will not. "Whatever power such a being may have over me, there...who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to iny fellow -creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...goodness. Did ever a professed logician commit such manifest suicide ? " Whatever power," he says, " such a being may have over me, there is one thing...not do — he shall not compel me to worship him." Did not Mr. Mill see that " whatever power " may mean Infinite power, and that Infinite power might... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...goodness. Did ever a professed logician commit such manifest suicide ? " Whatever power," he says, " such a being may have over me, there is one thing...not do — he shall not compel me to worship him." Did not Mr. Mill see that "whatever power" may mean Infinite power, and that Infinite power might make... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
..."simply the most morally pernicious doctrine now current," and hurls at him that tremendous passage, " I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; His Logical Views. 357 and if such a being can sentence me to hell, for not so calling... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...befallen the usual perspicuity of our philosopher when he penned such a sentence as the following: — ' Whatever power such a Being may have over me, there is one ' thing He shall not do, He shall not compel me to worship ' Him.' This certainly is a very bold, though scarcely... | |
 | George Grote - 1868 - 122 pages
...names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say, in plain terms, that I will not. Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing he shall not do ; he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good who is not what... | |
 | William Kelly - Bible - 1872 - 520 pages
...names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I •ay in plain terms that I will not. Whatever power such a being may have over me, there...is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not Is not God just ? Certainly. How then is it that God should cast into hell a conscientious, benevolent,... | |
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