Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 55
... causes and spirits are seen through them . best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers , and the reverential withdraw- ing of nature before its God . Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture . 1 ...
... causes and spirits are seen through them . best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers , and the reverential withdraw- ing of nature before its God . Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture . 1 ...
Page 65
... cause whence it had its origin . It always speaks of Spirit . It suggests the absolute . It is a perpetual effect . It is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us . The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus ...
... cause whence it had its origin . It always speaks of Spirit . It suggests the absolute . It is a perpetual effect . It is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us . The aspect of Nature is devout . Like the figure of Jesus ...
Page 70
... cause it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities . Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight , and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole . The ...
... cause it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities . Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight , and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole . The ...
Page 73
... cause . " More servants wait on man Than he ' ll take notice of . In every path , He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan . Oh mighty love ! Man is one world , and hath Another to attend him ...
... cause . " More servants wait on man Than he ' ll take notice of . In every path , He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan . Oh mighty love ! Man is one world , and hath Another to attend him ...
Page 76
... causing power . The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen , in say- ing , that the knowledge of man is an evening knowl- edge , vespertina cognitio , but that of God is a morning ...
... causing power . The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen , in say- ing , that the knowledge of man is an evening knowl- edge , vespertina cognitio , but that of God is a morning ...
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