Ethical Addresses and Ethical Record, Volume 13Ethical Addresses, 1906 |
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50 cents affliction ANNA GARLIN SPENCER attitude authority become believe better called cause cents character child conviction corporal punishment creed Culture of Chicago DAVID SAVILLE divine doctrine duty earth epithets ETHICAL ADDRESSES Ethical Culture Ethical Movement Ethical Society evil experience fact faith fault feel FELIX ADLER Freethought give heart hope human ical idea ideal individual inspiration interest Jesus judgment labor ligion live matter Matthew Arnold means ment mental method mind Moral Instruction MORRIS JASTROW NATHANIEL SCHMIDT nation natural penalty never ourselves parents PERCIVAL CHUBB perhaps person Philadelphia pleasure political principle problem progress prophet question race radical realize religion religious Russia SALTER seems sense social Society for Ethical soul spirit Sunday Sunday-school teacher teaching things thought tion to-day true truth unchurched WALTER L wealth word
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Page 112 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 21 - We would have inward peace, Yet will not look within; We would have misery cease, Yet will not cease from sin; We want all pleasant ends, but will use no harsh means ; We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through ; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
Page 18 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Page 85 - And every one, in cases perpetually occurring, may see that it is the prospective deprivations entailed by being too late which prevent people from being too late. Is not the inference obvious? Should not these prospective deprivations control the child's conduct also? If Constance is not ready at the appointed time, the natural result is that of being left behind, and losing her walk. And no one can, we think, doubt that after having once or twice remained at home while the rest were enjoying themselves...
Page 21 - Bafflers of our own prayers, from youth to life's last scenes. We would have inward peace, Yet will not look within ; We would have misery cease, Yet will not cease from sin ; We want all pleasant ends, but will.
Page 111 - You are white as the thoughts of an angel ; Your heart is steeped in the sun ; Did you" grow in the golden city, My pure and radiant one ? Nay, nay, I fell not out of heaven ; None gave me my saintly white ; It slowly grew from the blackness Down in the dreary night.
Page 252 - ... it is the initial recognition of a moral law restraining desire, and checks the hard bold scrutiny of imperfect thought into obligations which can never be proved to have any sanctity in the absence of feeling.
Page 105 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter — which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, — the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.
Page 21 - They live by law, not like the fool, But like the bard, who freely sings In strictest bonds of rhyme and rule, And finds in them, not bonds, but wings.
Page 111 - O star on the breast of the river! 0 marvel of bloom and grace! Did you fall right down from Heaven Out of the sweetest place? You are white as the thoughts of an angel, Your heart is steeped in the sun; Did you grow in the Golden City, My pure and radiant one?