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... Editor of the Hartford Times . SUBJECT STATED . - FIRST LETTER . About eighteen months ago , I wrote and delivered a discourse on " The human mind considered as a motive power ! " -- treating of the past and prospective achieve- ments ...
... Editor of the Hartford Times . SUBJECT STATED . - FIRST LETTER . About eighteen months ago , I wrote and delivered a discourse on " The human mind considered as a motive power ! " -- treating of the past and prospective achieve- ments ...
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... Editor , that the fore- going description of the future accomplishments of Mind in the fields of matter and among the elements of nature , will appear to a certain class of minds as imagi- native and hyperbolical in the extreme . The ...
... Editor , that the fore- going description of the future accomplishments of Mind in the fields of matter and among the elements of nature , will appear to a certain class of minds as imagi- native and hyperbolical in the extreme . The ...
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... Editor , I propose to notice no further the objections which may arise in certain minds , and proceed to lay before your readers the addi- tional information I have received , by recent interior investigation , concerning the ...
... Editor , I propose to notice no further the objections which may arise in certain minds , and proceed to lay before your readers the addi- tional information I have received , by recent interior investigation , concerning the ...
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... Editor , that I am not alone in the faith that man may control the circulations and phenomena of the air . An ignorant villager who considers his native place the centre of creation , and a fair illustration of all the countries of the ...
... Editor , that I am not alone in the faith that man may control the circulations and phenomena of the air . An ignorant villager who considers his native place the centre of creation , and a fair illustration of all the countries of the ...
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... Editor , it seems to me that the equal wel- fare and proper development of humanity require a little closer approach to a kind of republicanism or " democracy " among the elements and electro - magnetic circulations of the upper air ...
... Editor , it seems to me that the equal wel- fare and proper development of humanity require a little closer approach to a kind of republicanism or " democracy " among the elements and electro - magnetic circulations of the upper air ...
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Page 119 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 153 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 59 - And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Page 119 - The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
Page 59 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Page 119 - But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then...
Page 59 - Behold, I will do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth ; shall ye not know it ? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Page 59 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 23 - Have not the cotter's children as keen a sense of all the freshness, verdure, fragrance, melody, and beauty of luxuriant nature as the pale sons of kings ? Or is it on the mind that God has stamped the imprint of a baser birth so that the poor man's child knows with an inborn certainty that his lot is to crawl, not climb ? It is not so.
Page 119 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.