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... light by Him who rose from the dead , as we have that the body is built up by molecular force . ' This volume is intended practically to illustrate the mystery of the soul's connection with the body , in a manner which may help us to ...
... light by Him who rose from the dead , as we have that the body is built up by molecular force . ' This volume is intended practically to illustrate the mystery of the soul's connection with the body , in a manner which may help us to ...
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... light evince its nature , so our diversified faculties evince the nature of the soul ; and as the prismatic colours appear distinct only so long as one pure light pours the rays of its presence through the prism , so only while the soul ...
... light evince its nature , so our diversified faculties evince the nature of the soul ; and as the prismatic colours appear distinct only so long as one pure light pours the rays of its presence through the prism , so only while the soul ...
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... light , and sips nectar from the hand of God . True , an insect's development is no proof of man's immortality ; but does not man see in that un- folding of life a symbol of the advancement he desires ? The larva prophesies the nympha ...
... light , and sips nectar from the hand of God . True , an insect's development is no proof of man's immortality ; but does not man see in that un- folding of life a symbol of the advancement he desires ? The larva prophesies the nympha ...
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... light . There is nothing more positive than our consciousness of our own existence and personality . Therefore , all reasoning is founded on faith or the belief that what impresses us is real . Consciousness itself , however ...
... light . There is nothing more positive than our consciousness of our own existence and personality . Therefore , all reasoning is founded on faith or the belief that what impresses us is real . Consciousness itself , however ...
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... light and life , but the human is thereby elevated to the Divine . Our conception of God is not debased by His thus having made us capable of believing in His personal perfections , but we are dignified by His awful love . In making ...
... light and life , but the human is thereby elevated to the Divine . Our conception of God is not debased by His thus having made us capable of believing in His personal perfections , but we are dignified by His awful love . In making ...
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Page 237 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 430 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 237 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 430 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 251 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 170 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 42 - Os homini sublime dedit, — ccelumque tueri Jussit, — et erectos ad sidera — tollere vultus.
Page 80 - There was one of two ways to be adopted : either to go on to build up a language of signs on the basis of the natural language which she had already commenced herself, or to teach her the purely arbitrary language in common use: that is, to give her a sign for every individual thing, or to give her a knowledge of letters by...
Page 317 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 80 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did ; but now the truth began to flash upon her ; her intellect began to work. She perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind ; and at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression.