Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 39
... stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men , or it does not appear . When ... standing problem which has exercised the won- der and the study of every fine genius since the world began ; from ...
... stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men , or it does not appear . When ... standing problem which has exercised the won- der and the study of every fine genius since the world began ; from ...
Page 53
... stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long as the active powers predominate over the reflective , we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short - lived or mutable than spirit . The broker ...
... stand . It is a natural consequence of this struc- ture , that so long as the active powers predominate over the reflective , we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short - lived or mutable than spirit . The broker ...
Page 57
... It fears not policy , that heretic , That works on leases of short numbered hours , But all alone stands hugely politic . In the strength of his constancy , the Pyramids seem to him recent and transitory . The freshness of IDEALISM . 57.
... It fears not policy , that heretic , That works on leases of short numbered hours , But all alone stands hugely politic . In the strength of his constancy , the Pyramids seem to him recent and transitory . The freshness of IDEALISM . 57.
Page 65
... stands with bended head , and hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see ...
... stands with bended head , and hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see ...
Page 66
... stand as the apparition of God . It is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already presented do not ...
... stand as the apparition of God . It is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual , and strives to lead back the individual to it . When we consider Spirit , we see that the views already presented do not ...
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