Criticisms of Life: Studies in Faith, Hope and DespairHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 295 pages |
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abiogenesis affirm agnosticism argument assertion Athanasian Creed atheism attitude believe blind called Catholic Chesterton Christian Church consciousness creed criticism death declared deny divorce doctrine dogmas Ellen Key England English translation eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel Francis Thompson free love Hound of Heaven human hypostatized abstraction ideal immortality inevitable Ingersoll John Stuart Mill justify Kant live logical Maeterlinck man's mankind marry materialistic matter Matthew Arnold means ment mental merely mind miracles Miss Key Miss Key's modern monistic monogamy moral mysticism nations nature ness never orthodox philosophic physical possible principle Professor Haeckel prose prove question reality reason religion religious riddles scientific Scott seems sense Shelley Sir Oliver Lodge social society soul spirit Stanton Coit suffering suicide teaching theology things Thompson thou thought tion to-day true truth uncon universe utter woman women words
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Page 275 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 11 - ... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 276 - A time for labour and thought, A time to serve and to sin; They gave him light in his ways, And love, and a space for delight, And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire; With his lips he travaileth; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death; He weaves, and is clothed with derision; Sows, and he shall not reap; His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
Page 61 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 276 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 38 - They at least are for me, surely for me! I turned me to them very wistfully; But just as their young eyes grew sudden fair With dawning answers there, Their angel plucked them from me by the hair. "Come then, ye other children, Nature's— share With me...
Page 17 - Outwatched with me the envious night; They know that never joy illumed my brow Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free This world from its dark slavery; That thou, O awful Loveliness, Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express...
Page 282 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 256 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 9 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized, that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant, would this be a great joy and happiness to you?