Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 148
... already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts , speech and poetry , action and grace . For whoso dwells in this mortal beatitude does already anticipate those special powers which men prize so highly ; just as love does ...
... already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts , speech and poetry , action and grace . For whoso dwells in this mortal beatitude does already anticipate those special powers which men prize so highly ; just as love does ...
Page 161
... already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth , that around ...
... already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth , that around ...
Page 163
... already tends outward with a vast force , and to immense and innumerable expansions . Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series . Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself ...
... already tends outward with a vast force , and to immense and innumerable expansions . Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series . Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself ...
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