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... Whole - Persistence of Force - Smithy - fire - Matter Exists Spiritually , to Body - forth Ideas - Infancy of Teufelsdrockh - Unprecedented Egotism of Philosopher - Stricture on European Educational System - 12 ETHICS OF LITERATURE .
... Whole - Persistence of Force - Smithy - fire - Matter Exists Spiritually , to Body - forth Ideas - Infancy of Teufelsdrockh - Unprecedented Egotism of Philosopher - Stricture on European Educational System - 12 ETHICS OF LITERATURE .
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... Matter and Motion Essen- tial to Each Other - Mind a Condition or Affection of Matter - Civilization a Mere Expression of Intellectuality - Hiatus Between Workers and Idlers- Function of Religion in Evolution of Society . Page 12 . Page ...
... Matter and Motion Essen- tial to Each Other - Mind a Condition or Affection of Matter - Civilization a Mere Expression of Intellectuality - Hiatus Between Workers and Idlers- Function of Religion in Evolution of Society . Page 12 . Page ...
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... matter terminates its existence . If that occupant which has so departed is a power , condition , or capacity , it may still be as substantial as any one ought to claim that a soul can be , and there is but little in a name . Un- less ...
... matter terminates its existence . If that occupant which has so departed is a power , condition , or capacity , it may still be as substantial as any one ought to claim that a soul can be , and there is but little in a name . Un- less ...
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... matter of grace and condescension . There is no logic in the story of Jacob's wrestle with the Angel . The Angel could have thrown him every fall , and if he intended to bless him he could not logically have provoked his evil passions ...
... matter of grace and condescension . There is no logic in the story of Jacob's wrestle with the Angel . The Angel could have thrown him every fall , and if he intended to bless him he could not logically have provoked his evil passions ...
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... matter of the discussion . It will be observed that Bishop Butler argues that his religion may be valid because it cannot be demonstrated that the Spiritual exis- tence bears no resemblance in any respect to the Physical . He labors to ...
... matter of the discussion . It will be observed that Bishop Butler argues that his religion may be valid because it cannot be demonstrated that the Spiritual exis- tence bears no resemblance in any respect to the Physical . He labors to ...
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Page 139 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the...
Page 217 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 42 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory...
Page 85 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd ; And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 97 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 173 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 84 - tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reas'ning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong?
Page 97 - Condition, circumstance, is not the thing ; Bliss is the same in subject or in king, In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Page 50 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 173 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.