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agnostic agnosticism army become begin child complex comradeship congenital consciousness cosmic culture desire destiny discipline divine dogmatic drudgery dualism Earl Barnes EDMOND HOLMES egoism equality examination Fabian Society feeling feudal forces freedom German ideal Germany give growth happiness harmony heart herd instinct higher human nature idea ideal truth individual infinite insanity instinct interest Jesus Jews labour latent less lesson live lower man's matter means mental mind monism Montessori moral nation obedience one's organised pantheism path Pharisees philosophy political possession possible potential pressure Professor Eucken pupils quest question realise reality reason regard religion religious self-development selfishness sense social Socialistic society soul spiritual Spitalfields Stewart Headlam supreme taught teacher teaching tell tendency theory things thought tion true ultimate unity universe unselfish Upanishads upper classes white nations whole word
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Page 192 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 204 - With wide-embracing love Thy spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above, Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in thee.
Page 293 - Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Page 109 - The mathematics, and the metaphysics, Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; — In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 133 - Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 252 - Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Page 133 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood, Th...
Page 259 - God, but the doers of a law shall be justified : for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves ; in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them ; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
Page 140 - Nations; the over-exploitation of natural resources; the erosion of the world's cultural variety; our general preoccupation with means rather than ends, with technology and quantity rather than creativity and quality; and the Revolution of Expectation, caused by the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, between the rich and the poor nations.
Page 287 - Laugh not with him , lest thou have sorrow with him , And lest thou gnash thy teeth in the end. Give him no liberty in his youth, And wink not at his follies. Bow down his neck while he is young, And beat him on the sides while he is a child, Lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, And so bring sorrow to thine heart.