Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 256
... reform of domestic , civil , literary , and ecclesi- astical institutions . The leaders of the crusades against War , Negro slavery , Intemperance , Govern- ment based on force , Usages of trade , Court and Custom - house Oaths , and so ...
... reform of domestic , civil , literary , and ecclesi- astical institutions . The leaders of the crusades against War , Negro slavery , Intemperance , Govern- ment based on force , Usages of trade , Court and Custom - house Oaths , and so ...
Page 258
... reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness , each cherishing some part of the general idea , and all must be seen in ... reform is always identi- cal , it is the comparison of the idea with the fact . Our modes of living are not ...
... reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness , each cherishing some part of the general idea , and all must be seen in ... reform is always identi- cal , it is the comparison of the idea with the fact . Our modes of living are not ...
Page 259
... reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man , which , amidst the natural , ever contains the supernatural for men . That is new and creative . That is alive . That alone can make a man other than he is . Here or ...
... reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man , which , amidst the natural , ever contains the supernatural for men . That is new and creative . That is alive . That alone can make a man other than he is . Here or ...
Page 261
... reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know ? By the books it reads and translates , judge what books it will presently print . A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity , which had be- come as good ...
... reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know ? By the books it reads and translates , judge what books it will presently print . A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity , which had be- come as good ...
Page 262
... reforms are our contemporaries ; they are ourselves ; our own light , and sight , and conscience ; they only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rec- tify . They are the simplest ...
... reforms are our contemporaries ; they are ourselves ; our own light , and sight , and conscience ; they only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rec- tify . They are the simplest ...
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