James McCosh
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- Psychology
- Life of Jesus
- The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral
- Philosophy of Reality
- Our Moral Nature, Being a Brief System of Ethics
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5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,549x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,202x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,124x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,274x
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Quotes
- “Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.”
- “Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character, exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.”
- “When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives, and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education.”
- “As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.”
- “True humility is a Christian grace and one of the fruits of the Spirit, originating in a deep consciousness of sin past and present, and leading us to discover our nothingness in the view of God, our insufficiency for any thing that is good, and prompting us, as we feel our infirmities, to strive after higher and yet higher attainments.”
- “It is not the motive, properly speaking, that determines the working of the will; but it is the will that imparts strength to the motive. As Coleridge says: " It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man."”
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- 1811-04-01
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- 1894-11-16
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1811 births1894 deaths19th-century ministers of the Free Church of Scotland19th-century Scottish philosophers19th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministersAcademics of Queen's University BelfastAlumni of the University of EdinburghAlumni of the University of GlasgowMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople from AyrshirePresidents of Princeton UniversityScottish emigrants to the United StatesSource attributionTheistic evolutionists