Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 10
... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be ...
... truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will be ...
Page 27
... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its tem- ple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
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... Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a ...
... Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a ...
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... Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with ...
... Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and shine . This universal soul he calls Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but we are its ; we are its property and men . And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried , the sky with ...
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... truth and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires ...
... truth and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the cor- ruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires ...
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