Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 48
... moral sentiment which thus scents the air , grows in the grain , and impreg- nates the waters of the world , is caught by man and sinks into his soul . The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it ...
... moral sentiment which thus scents the air , grows in the grain , and impreg- nates the waters of the world , is caught by man and sinks into his soul . The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it ...
Page 106
... moral capacity , for their acquies- cence in a political and social inferiority . are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person , so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest ...
... moral capacity , for their acquies- cence in a political and social inferiority . are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person , so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest ...
Page 112
... moral evil to the foul material forms , and has given in epical parables a theory of insanity , of beasts , of unclean and fearful things . to surround him Another sign of our times , also marked by an analogous political movement , is ...
... moral evil to the foul material forms , and has given in epical parables a theory of insanity , of beasts , of unclean and fearful things . to surround him Another sign of our times , also marked by an analogous political movement , is ...
Page 121
... moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought , -in speech we must sever , and describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars . Yet , as this sentiment is the essence of all religion , let ne ...
... moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought , -in speech we must sever , and describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars . Yet , as this sentiment is the essence of all religion , let ne ...
Page 122
... moral sentiment is an in- sight of the perfection of the laws of the soul . These laws execute themselves . They are out of time , out of space , and not subject to circumstance . Thus in the soul of man there is a justice whose ...
... moral sentiment is an in- sight of the perfection of the laws of the soul . These laws execute themselves . They are out of time , out of space , and not subject to circumstance . Thus in the soul of man there is a justice whose ...
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