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... not likely to interest any but those who have some spirit of inquiry . If to such they should prove at all " Aids to faith , " their highest purpose would be served . PART I. RELIGION . BEGINNING LIFE . I. IMPORTANCE OF INTRODUCTION . 11.
... not likely to interest any but those who have some spirit of inquiry . If to such they should prove at all " Aids to faith , " their highest purpose would be served . PART I. RELIGION . BEGINNING LIFE . I. IMPORTANCE OF INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... spirit of na- ture , or the collective life , animating all its parts , and ever taking new shapes of order and beauty in its endless mutations . The Positivist speaks to him of the laws of nature , or the great scheme in which these ...
... spirit of na- ture , or the collective life , animating all its parts , and ever taking new shapes of order and beauty in its endless mutations . The Positivist speaks to him of the laws of nature , or the great scheme in which these ...
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... , tends directly to encourage and educate such a comprehensive spirit of self - indulgence as the only guide of conduct . " Our appetites , being as much a por- tion of ourselves as any other quality we pos- sess 24 BEGINNING LIFE .
... , tends directly to encourage and educate such a comprehensive spirit of self - indulgence as the only guide of conduct . " Our appetites , being as much a por- tion of ourselves as any other quality we pos- sess 24 BEGINNING LIFE .
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... spirit and life of his own which trans- cend nature - conditions , and are not contained by them . Above the system of these conditions there is a higher system of being , and man , in his innermost life , belongs to this higher sys ...
... spirit and life of his own which trans- cend nature - conditions , and are not contained by them . Above the system of these conditions there is a higher system of being , and man , in his innermost life , belongs to this higher sys ...
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... spirit and not any mere combinations of ma- terial , nor even of intellectual agencies , which has saved civilization from what seemed im- pending dissolution , and driven its wheels for- ward with a fresh impetus . Taking man in any ...
... spirit and not any mere combinations of ma- terial , nor even of intellectual agencies , which has saved civilization from what seemed im- pending dissolution , and driven its wheels for- ward with a fresh impetus . Taking man in any ...
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Page 75 - The God of Abraham, and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified His son Jesus: whom ye delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you, and killed the Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.
Page 281 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 248 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 118 - Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Page 32 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 143 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 294 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 120 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 295 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 280 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.