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" It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to... "
Tales - Page 342
by Harriet Martineau - 1836
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The Monthly Repository and Review of Theology and General Literature, Volume 4

Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...enlightened them, were it only by the light which the human understanding put into these books. " It is impossible that any other book could have been so...man, however his understanding feels convinced of a continually better futurity, will still not be necessitated to draw motives of conduct from this...
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The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Volume 2

Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr - 1866 - 456 pages
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination, and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." Hear it, O materialistic age, that recognizcst and prizest only those investigations which are directed...
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Lectures, Addresses and Other Literary Remains

Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of .heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81 OR, is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity...
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Lessing, Volume 2

James Sime - Authors, German - 1877 - 394 pages
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained...
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Lessing, Volume 2

James Sime - Authors, German - 1896 - 388 pages
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 23

Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake. 81. Or shall the human race never attain this highest degree of enlightenment and purity ? Never ?...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 668 pages
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake. 81. Or shall the human race never attain this highest degree of enlightenment and purity ? Never ?...
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Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity?—...
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Nathan the Wise, Minna Von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 378 pages
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity?...
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The Problem of Being Modern, Or, The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from ...

Thomas P. Saine - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...practiced "on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone" (§80). Any attempt to transcend divisions by enforcing a universal unity would end in refragmentation...
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