An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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Page 17
... teach us that to eat more than the body uses brings disease and then death - also , that to read and study and not use the knowledge brings auto - intoxi- cation or ankylosis . This American Bible will teach us that every energy of man ...
... teach us that to eat more than the body uses brings disease and then death - also , that to read and study and not use the knowledge brings auto - intoxi- cation or ankylosis . This American Bible will teach us that every energy of man ...
Page 174
... teach men that they are good or bad for themselves , that others can not be good or bad for them , that they can not be charged with the crimes , or credited with the virtues , of others . We must discard the doctrine of the atone- ment ...
... teach men that they are good or bad for themselves , that others can not be good or bad for them , that they can not be charged with the crimes , or credited with the virtues , of others . We must discard the doctrine of the atone- ment ...
Page 360
... teaching is to enable the scholar to do without his teacher . Gradu- ation should take place at the vanishing - point ... teach . In the presence of such a towering personality freedom dies , spontaneity droops , and thought slinks away ...
... teaching is to enable the scholar to do without his teacher . Gradu- ation should take place at the vanishing - point ... teach . In the presence of such a towering personality freedom dies , spontaneity droops , and thought slinks away ...
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