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... possible to find any fixed and definite conviction on the subject in his writings . His views of immortality , or at 1 Plato , Phaedrus , 64 , οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνήσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι . Eternal Life , p . 27 . any rate of ...
... possible to find any fixed and definite conviction on the subject in his writings . His views of immortality , or at 1 Plato , Phaedrus , 64 , οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνήσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι . Eternal Life , p . 27 . any rate of ...
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... possible to quote statements of Clement which do not agree with these views . He admits frankly that he does not write down all that he thinks ; there is an esoteric Christianity which is not for everybody . But it is plain that he ...
... possible to quote statements of Clement which do not agree with these views . He admits frankly that he does not write down all that he thinks ; there is an esoteric Christianity which is not for everybody . But it is plain that he ...
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... possible , the most for- midable problem of Christian theology - how to make room for the Jewish philosophy of history by the side of the Platonic philosophy of eternal life . He falls into contradictions , as we have seen ; but it is ...
... possible , the most for- midable problem of Christian theology - how to make room for the Jewish philosophy of history by the side of the Platonic philosophy of eternal life . He falls into contradictions , as we have seen ; but it is ...
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... possible answers to the question whether the Souls of individuals are immortal . Either the individual , as such , is immortal ; or he entirely perishes , or part of him perishes and another part lives for ever . Man is not a simple ...
... possible answers to the question whether the Souls of individuals are immortal . Either the individual , as such , is immortal ; or he entirely perishes , or part of him perishes and another part lives for ever . Man is not a simple ...
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... possible . ' If the will was free , it would be impossible to change our character by education . Precisely because the will of man obeys motives and depends on causes , he can transform himself by changing his environ- ment and ...
... possible . ' If the will was free , it would be impossible to change our character by education . Precisely because the will of man obeys motives and depends on causes , he can transform himself by changing his environ- ment and ...
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Page 155 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 91 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 69 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 71 - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a God though in the germ.
Page 230 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With...
Page 155 - ... sometimes when I have come to my work empty I have suddenly become full, ideas being, in an invisible manner, showered upon me, and implanted in me from on high ; so that, through the influence of divine inspiration, I have become greatly excited, and have known neither the place in which I was nor those who were present, nor myself, nor what I was saying, nor what I was writing ; for then I have been conscious of a richness of interpretation, an enjoyment of light, a most penetrating sight,...
Page 157 - I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.
Page 207 - Jesus: who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men...
Page 97 - ... leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies, Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth Of all that irked her from the hour of birth; With stillness that is almost Paradise. Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her, Silence more musical than any song; Even her very heart has ceased to stir: Until the morning of Eternity Her rest shall not begin nor end, but be; And when she wakes she will not think it long.
Page 150 - The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible World is but a Picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a Pourtraict, things are not truely, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some more real substance in that invisible fabrick.