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amongst Anaxarchus beauty become beginning Bhagavad Gita body century Charles Fourier Christ Christian Church comes common consciousness disciple Divine doctrine eternal evolution experience fact faith feeling follow force Goethe Gospel greatest Gregory Thaumaturgus happiness heaven higher highest human idea immeasurably incessantly infinite inner instinct Irenæus Justin Martyr larger reference leader life's light living look luminiferous ether man's matter mind modern moral movement mystery nature never offer ourselves paradise phalanstery Phillips Brooks philosophy planet Plato position precisely present prophet pulpit Puritan question R. L. Stevenson reach realise recognised relation religion religious rest saints Schopenhauer secret seems sense side social soul soul's speak sphere Spinoza spiritual spiritual evolution story surely theme theology things thought tion to-day true truth unity universe unseen utter vast Wernle whole wonder word
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Page 114 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 249 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 176 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 141 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 132 - ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The...
Page 130 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious ; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Page 61 - Notwithstanding what has happened this week, I see no reason for departing from our usual custom of reading the 103rd Psalm,— ' Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name.
Page 89 - To remove this want of correspondence is beginning to be the settled endeavour of most persons of good sense. Dissolvents of the old European system of dominant ideas and facts we must all be, all of us who have any power of working; what we have to study is that we may not be acrid dissolvents of it.
Page 188 - It is a curious thing that I find my dislike to the thought of extinction increasing as I get older and nearer the goal. It flashes across me at all sorts of times with a sort of horror that in 1900 I shall probably know no more of what is going on than I did in 1800. I had sooner be in hell a good deal — at any rate in one of the upper circles, where the climate and company are not too trying.
Page 73 - No crowd of nymphs soft voic'd and young, and gay, In woven baskets bringing ears of corn, Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn The shrine of Flora in her early May. But there are left delights as high as these, And I shall ever bless my destiny...