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... thought , to show in what respects its main position seemed open to criticism . This book is not a reproduction of those lectures . They were delivered without manuscript and the thought of extending my notes for publication was at no ...
... thought , to show in what respects its main position seemed open to criticism . This book is not a reproduction of those lectures . They were delivered without manuscript and the thought of extending my notes for publication was at no ...
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... thought , to show in what respects its main position seemed open to criticism . This book is not a reproduction of those lectures . They were delivered without manuscript and the thought of extending my notes for publication was at no ...
... thought , to show in what respects its main position seemed open to criticism . This book is not a reproduction of those lectures . They were delivered without manuscript and the thought of extending my notes for publication was at no ...
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... thought - paths which converge upon that central spot of spiritual sunshine - the faith in a life beyond death . I propose in this course of lectures to traverse the more important of these thought - paths in order to determine whether ...
... thought - paths which converge upon that central spot of spiritual sunshine - the faith in a life beyond death . I propose in this course of lectures to traverse the more important of these thought - paths in order to determine whether ...
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... thought concerning it . No one can be said to know that he is immor- tal . When Emerson and Theodore Parker , Addison and Samuel Taylor Coleridge affirmed that they knew they were immortal the most they could possibly have meant was ...
... thought concerning it . No one can be said to know that he is immor- tal . When Emerson and Theodore Parker , Addison and Samuel Taylor Coleridge affirmed that they knew they were immortal the most they could possibly have meant was ...
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... thought . These three minor bases are : ( 1 ) the universality of the belief in a hereafter ; ( 2 ) the instinctive de- sire for a future life ; ( 3 ) intuition , or immedi- ate awareness of immortality . Our attention will be directed ...
... thought . These three minor bases are : ( 1 ) the universality of the belief in a hereafter ; ( 2 ) the instinctive de- sire for a future life ; ( 3 ) intuition , or immedi- ate awareness of immortality . Our attention will be directed ...
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Page 26 - And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 37 - Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw...
Page 190 - I'll tell thee; for thy sake I will lay hold Of all good aims, and consecrate to thee, In worthy deeds, each moment that is told While thou, beloved one! art far from me. For thee I will arouse my thoughts to try All heavenward flights, all high and holy strains; For thy dear sake I will walk patiently Through these long hours, nor call their minutes pains.
Page 25 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 178 - No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagged not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing — only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Page 186 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 190 - WHAT shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face ? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace ? Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense, Weary with longing ?— shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day ? Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...
Page 168 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 1 - Thou art immortal— so am I : I feel— I feel my immortality o'ersweep All pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peal, Like the eternal thunders of the deep, Into my ears this truth— "thou liv'st for ever!
Page 58 - We believe that the highest morality is contained in the Golden Rule, "Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them.