Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 63
... religion , all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world . But I own there is something ungrateful in ex- panding too curiously the particulars of the gen- eral proposition , that all culture tends to imbue us ...
... religion , all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world . But I own there is something ungrateful in ex- panding too curiously the particulars of the gen- eral proposition , that all culture tends to imbue us ...
Page 64
... religion in the world . It is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune , at the union or opposition of other persons . No man is its en- emy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its ...
... religion in the world . It is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune , at the union or opposition of other persons . No man is its en- emy . It accepts whatsoever befalls , as part of its ...
Page 76
... religious and political revolutions , and in the abolition of the slave - trade ; the miracles of enthu- siasm , as those reported of Swedenborg , Hohenlohe , and the Shakers ; many obscure and yet contested facts , now arranged under ...
... religious and political revolutions , and in the abolition of the slave - trade ; the miracles of enthu- siasm , as those reported of Swedenborg , Hohenlohe , and the Shakers ; many obscure and yet contested facts , now arranged under ...
Page 101
... religion of society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart , the frequent uncertainty and loss of time , which are the nettles and tangling vines in - the way of the self ...
... religion of society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart , the frequent uncertainty and loss of time , which are the nettles and tangling vines in - the way of the self ...
Page 121
... by painful enumeration of many particulars . Yet , as this sentiment is the essence of all religion , let ne guide your eye to the precise objects of the sen- timent , by an enumeration of some of those classes ADDRESS . 121.
... by painful enumeration of many particulars . Yet , as this sentiment is the essence of all religion , let ne guide your eye to the precise objects of the sen- timent , by an enumeration of some of those classes ADDRESS . 121.
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