Ethical Addresses, Volume 8S. Burns Weston, 1901 |
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Agnosticism answer become belief belongs to Humanity called cause century China Chinese Chinese language Christianity church Confucianism Confucius conscience coöperation course creed cross and followeth cry Lord dead rise Deity democracy disciples divine doctrine duty Ethical Culture evolution fact faith feel FELIX ADLER FREDERIC HARRISON give gods Gospel hand heart Heaven Herbert Spencer highest highest hope hope human nature human race Huxley says Huxley's indulged Infinite instincts intellectual Jesus kind king kingdom live for Humanity loyalty mankind means Mencius ment Metaphysical Society mind monotheism Monroe Doctrine moral ideal neighbor once ourselves Pantheism passions philosophy political Prophets question religion religious righteousness Romanes lecture selfish sense social soul speak stand standpoint struggle sublime supreme allegiance theory things Thomas Henry Huxley thought tion to-day touch true Tsz Lu unity vision watch-tower of science whole words worldly worthy Yahweh
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Page 10 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 107 - I cannot tell you how inexpressibly they shocked me. Paul had neither wife nor child, or he must have known that his alternative involved a blasphemy against all that was best and noblest in human nature. I could have laughed with scorn. What! because I am face to face with irreparable loss, because I have given back to the source...
Page 89 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Page 102 - Kicked into the world a boy without guide or training, or with worse than none, I confess to my shame that few men have drunk deeper of all kinds of sin than I. Happily, my course was arrested in time — before I had earned absolute destruction — and for long years I have been slowly and painfully climbing, with many a fall, towards better things.
Page 32 - I had no occasion for money. To send a man a gift when he has no occasion for it, is to bribe him. How is it possible that -a superior man should be taken with a bribe ?
Page 107 - As I stood behind the coffin of my little son the other day, with my mind bent on anything but disputation, the officiating minister read, as a part of his duty, the words, "If the dead rise not again, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." I cannot tell you how inexpressibly they shocked me. Paul had neither wife nor child, or he must have known that his alternative involved a blasphemy against all that was best and noblest in human nature. I could have laughed with scorn. What ! because I...
Page 107 - I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie.
Page 33 - I was apprehensive for my safety, and taking measures for my protection. The message was, ' I have heard that you are taking measures to protect yourself, and send this to help you in procuring arms.
Page 69 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth .' Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
Page 28 - I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.