Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 65
... worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see God in the coarse , and , as it were , distant VOL . I. 5 phenomena of matter ; but when we try to define.
... worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see God in the coarse , and , as it were , distant VOL . I. 5 phenomena of matter ; but when we try to define.
Page 77
... worship God after the tradition of their fathers , but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use of all their faculties . And there are patient naturalists , but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the ...
... worship God after the tradition of their fathers , but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use of all their faculties . And there are patient naturalists , but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the ...
Page 88
... worship the soul , and to see that the natural philo- sophy that now is , is only the first gropings of its gigantic hand , he shall look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is ...
... worship the soul , and to see that the natural philo- sophy that now is , is only the first gropings of its gigantic hand , he shall look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is ...
Page 90
... worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incur- sions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book ...
... worship of his statue . Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incur- sions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book ...
Page 125
... worship , and be enlarged by his worship ; for he can never go behind this senti- ment . In the sublimest flights of the soul , recti- tude is never surmounted , love is never outgrown . This sentiment lies at the foundation of society ...
... worship , and be enlarged by his worship ; for he can never go behind this senti- ment . In the sublimest flights of the soul , recti- tude is never surmounted , love is never outgrown . This sentiment lies at the foundation of society ...
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