Living for the Future: A Study in the Ethics of ImmortalityHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 171 pages |
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Living for the Future; A Study in the Ethics of Immortality John Rothwell Slater No preview available - 2016 |
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activities agnostic Alps altogether beauty believe better cheer Christian comes darkness dead who died death discover discovery divine dream duty earth earthly Emily Dickinson eter eternity eyes faith fear force forever future give Greet the unseen hand happy haps heart heaven hidden hope hours of insight human imagination intel invisible world kind kingdom of heaven knew light ligion live communicatively live intensely look lost mankind mation Matthew Arnold means mediæval mind mortality mystery ness never night occult occupation one's Osiris ourselves perhaps personal immortality Peter Pan philosophy poet prayer present psychical research question reason religious remember saints sense Sing sleep somehow soul speculations spirit spiritual world stars sure tality tasks teach telepathy telephony tell Tennyson Thee Thou thought tion true truth unknown ural voice weary William Blake wireless wise wonder words
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Page 46 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 74 - And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair; They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets
Page 4 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Page 152 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answered, "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...
Page 147 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 68 - Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 78 - O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labour-house vast Of being, is practised that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm!
Page 12 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 122 - How the world is made for each of us ! How all we perceive and know in it Tends to some moment's product thus, When a soul declares itself — to wit, By its fruit, the thing it does...
Page 59 - O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE" Longum illud tempus, quum non era, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum. — Cicero, Ad Att., xii: 18. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence: live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.