The Monist, Volume 38Paul Carus Open Court, 1928 Vols. 2 and 5 include appendices. |
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Page 16 - what is now called science, thus familiarized to man, shall, be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transformation, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of Man.
Page 278 - The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom first ordered well their states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they sought to be sincere in their thoughts
Page 570 - ME, in its widest possible sense, is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his land and horses, and yacht and bank account.
Page 64 - As there is no screen or ceiling, between our heads and the infinite heaven, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual
Page 55 - appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the Sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Page 64 - sceptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as We know when we are awake that we are awake.
Page 63 - and note its resemblance to the concluding passage above. "Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where one sees something else, hears something else, understands something else, that is the finite. The Infinite is Immortal, the finite is mortal.
Page 58 - if not proof that they were based on Vedic writings. "In a region where the wheel On which all beings ride Visibly revolves; Where the starred eternal worm Girds the world with bound and term; Where unlike things are alike; Where good and ill And joy and moan, Melt into one.
Page 242 - that we ought to enquire than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know:—that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight in word and deed, to the utmost of my
Page 502 - mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.