Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 40
... doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriƦ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . Every scripture is to be ...
... doctrine is abstruse , and though the im- ages of " garment , " " scoriƦ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . Every scripture is to be ...
Page 47
... doctrine of Use , namely , that a thing is good only so far as it serves ; that a conspiring of parts and efforts to the pro- duction of an end is essential to any being . The first and gross manifestation of this truth is our ...
... doctrine of Use , namely , that a thing is good only so far as it serves ; that a conspiring of parts and efforts to the pro- duction of an end is essential to any being . The first and gross manifestation of this truth is our ...
Page 84
... doctrine ever new and sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man . Man is not a farmer , or a professor , or ...
... doctrine ever new and sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man . Man is not a farmer , or a professor , or ...
Page 93
... doctrine of the iden- tity of all minds , we should suppose some preƫstab- lished harmony , some foresight of souls that were to be , and some preparation of stores for their fu- ture wants , like the fact observed in insects , who lay ...
... doctrine of the iden- tity of all minds , we should suppose some preƫstab- lished harmony , some foresight of souls that were to be , and some preparation of stores for their fu- ture wants , like the fact observed in insects , who lay ...
Page 106
... doctrine that man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are become of no account . Men in history , men in the world of to - day ...
... doctrine that man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are become of no account . Men in history , men in the world of to - day ...
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