Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... religious frenzy , cast off this drapery , and omit- ting all compliment and commonplace , spoke to the conscience ... religion or philanthrophy in his head that is not to be questioned , and so spoils all conversa- tion with him . But ...
... religious frenzy , cast off this drapery , and omit- ting all compliment and commonplace , spoke to the conscience ... religion or philanthrophy in his head that is not to be questioned , and so spoils all conversa- tion with him . But ...
Page 260
... religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers . Whenever the appeal is made , no matter how indirectly , -to numbers , proclamation is then and there made , that religion is not . He that finds God a sweet , enveloping thought to him ...
... religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers . Whenever the appeal is made , no matter how indirectly , -to numbers , proclamation is then and there made , that religion is not . He that finds God a sweet , enveloping thought to him ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. measures the decline of religion , the withdrawal of the soul . The position men have given to ... religious , but it is inno- cent . It calls the light its own , and feels that the grass grows , and the stone falls ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. measures the decline of religion , the withdrawal of the soul . The position men have given to ... religious , but it is inno- cent . It calls the light its own , and feels that the grass grows , and the stone falls ...
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