Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 36
... action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the work- ing of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses , for a powerful mind , over ...
... action of the mind . It is proper creation . It is the work- ing of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses , for a powerful mind , over ...
Page 38
... action ; " " the small- est weight may be made to lift the greatest , the dif- ference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions , which have an ethical as well as physical sense . These propositions have a ...
... action ; " " the small- est weight may be made to lift the greatest , the dif- ference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions , which have an ethical as well as physical sense . These propositions have a ...
Page 43
... action of internal machinery , like the index on the face of a clock . Whilst now it is the gymnastics of the understanding , it is hiving , in - the foresight of the spirit , experience in profounder laws DISCIPLINE . 43.
... action of internal machinery , like the index on the face of a clock . Whilst now it is the gymnastics of the understanding , it is hiving , in - the foresight of the spirit , experience in profounder laws DISCIPLINE . 43.
Page 50
... actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop , and impoverish it . An action is the perfection and publication of thought . A right action seems to ...
... actions . Words are finite organs of the infinite mind . They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth . They break , chop , and impoverish it . An action is the perfection and publication of thought . A right action seems to ...
Page 64
... actions and events , of country and re- ligion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the in- stant eternity for the contemplation of the ...
... actions and events , of country and re- ligion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture which God paints on the in- stant eternity for the contemplation of the ...
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