Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 61
... difference between the ab- solute and the conditional or relative . We appre- hend the absolute . As it were , for the first time , we exist . We become immortal , for we learn that time and space are relations of matter ; that with a ...
... difference between the ab- solute and the conditional or relative . We appre- hend the absolute . As it were , for the first time , we exist . We become immortal , for we learn that time and space are relations of matter ; that with a ...
Page 76
... 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 knowledge , matutina ...
... 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 knowledge , matutina ...
Page 108
... difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs , and there are data for marking the genius of the ... differences . In fact , I believe each indi vidual passes through all three . The boy is a 108 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs , and there are data for marking the genius of the ... differences . In fact , I believe each indi vidual passes through all three . The boy is a 108 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 158
... difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am tasting the self - same life , its sweetness , its greatness , its pain , which I so admire in other men . Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable , obliterated past , what it cannot ...
... difference of cir- cumstance is merely costume . I am tasting the self - same life , its sweetness , its greatness , its pain , which I so admire in other men . Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable , obliterated past , what it cannot ...
Page 189
... difference can it make whether it take the shape of exhortation , or of passionate exclamation , or of scientific state- ment ? These are forms merely . Through them we express , at last , the fact that God has done thus or thus . In ...
... difference can it make whether it take the shape of exhortation , or of passionate exclamation , or of scientific state- ment ? These are forms merely . Through them we express , at last , the fact that God has done thus or thus . In ...
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