Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 63
... believe in the external world . The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the pop- ular faith is this ...
... believe in the external world . The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the pop- ular faith is this ...
Page 106
... 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 , are bugs , are spawn , and ...
... 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 , are bugs , are spawn , and ...
Page 108
... views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals , I do not much dwell on these differences . In fact , I believe each indi vidual passes through all three . The boy is a 108 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals , I do not much dwell on these differences . In fact , I believe each indi vidual passes through all three . The boy is a 108 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 134
... believe , with numbers , of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society . The soul is not preached . The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim ...
... believe , with numbers , of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society . The soul is not preached . The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim ...
Page 151
... believe I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars , than when , a boy , I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary . Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then ...
... believe I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars , than when , a boy , I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary . Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then ...
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