The Metaphysical Magazine, Volume 20

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Metaphysical Publishing Company, 1907
 

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Page 57 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 274 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy...
Page 140 - Christianity, and the eager curiosity, the uncertainty, and insatiable search for something new, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. the New Testament canon, but it is the "Higher Criticism" which has struck the death blow to unreasoning bibliolatry.
Page 123 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Page 180 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 240 - The primeval religion of Iran, if we rely on the authorities adduced by Mohsani Fani, was that which Newton calls the oldest (and it may be justly called the noblest) of all religions : " A firm belief that one '* Supreme God made the world by his power, and " continually governed it by his providence ; a pious '* fear, love, and adoration of him ; a due reverence " for parents and aged persons ; a fraternal affection " for the whole human species, and a compassionate " tenderness even for the brute...
Page 339 - Live thou ! and of the grain and husk, the grape And ivy-berry, choose ; and still depart From death to death thro' life and life, and find Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought Not matter, nor the finite-infinite, But this main-miracle, that thou art thou, With power on thine own act and on the world.
Page 118 - Of this thing, however, be certain: wouldst thou plant for Eternity, then plant into the deep infinite faculties of man, his Fantasy and Heart; wouldst thou plant for Year and Day, then plant into his shallow superficial faculties, his Self-love and Arithmetical Understanding, what will grow there.
Page 274 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 42 - ... we are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason ; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps.

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