 | Lafcadio Hearn - History - 1896 - 404 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness, of these Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary...coming of another teacher to proclaim, "I have the same feding for the high as for the low, for the moral as for the immoral, for the depraved as for the virtuous,... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - Folklore - 1896 - 408 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness, of these Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary...eager for the coming of another teacher to proclaim, "Ihave the same feeling for the high as for the low, for the moral as for the immoral, for the depraved... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - Folklore - 1907 - 326 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness, of these Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary...eager for the coming of another teacher to proclaim, "/ have the same feeling for the high as for the low, for the moral as for the immoral, for the depraved... | |
 | Nina H. Kennard - Authors, American - 1912 - 390 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness of those Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary...proclaim, ' I have the same feeling for the High as the Low, for the moral as the immoral, for the depraved as for the virtuous, for those holding sectarian... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - Authors, American - 1922 - 580 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness, of these Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary of 431 creeds transformed into conventions, eager for the coming of another teacher to proclaim, I have... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - Authors, American - 1922 - 578 pages
...shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless tenderness, of these Buddha faces might yet give peace of soul to a West weary of 431 creeds transformed into conventions, eager for the coming of another teacher to proclaim, I have... | |
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The thinkers of a less conventional and selfish era would teach new reverence for them. Each eidolon shaped by human faith remains the shell of a truth eternally divine, and even the shell itself may hold a ghostly power. The soft serenity, the passionless... 