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... begin to dis- cern a change ; until at last he can contrast the days and nights of winter with the days and nights of summer , and see how flowers that once opened fresh every morning , now never open or close at all . Then he will see ...
... begin to dis- cern a change ; until at last he can contrast the days and nights of winter with the days and nights of summer , and see how flowers that once opened fresh every morning , now never open or close at all . Then he will see ...
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... begin to strive towards the " highest good , " we must know something of what this " highest good " is . highest good " is . We must make this " higher ideal " stand and unfold itself . If it can- not be made to do this , if it vanishes ...
... begin to strive towards the " highest good , " we must know something of what this " highest good " is . highest good " is . We must make this " higher ideal " stand and unfold itself . If it can- not be made to do this , if it vanishes ...
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... begin " to rise like an exhalation . " But if this self - repression be a mat- ter of great difficulty , and one requiring a constant struggle on our part , it will be needful for us to intensely realise , when we abstain from any ...
... begin " to rise like an exhalation . " But if this self - repression be a mat- ter of great difficulty , and one requiring a constant struggle on our part , it will be needful for us to intensely realise , when we abstain from any ...
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... begin with . Certain intense kinds of happiness may perhaps be raised to ecstasy by the thought that another shares them . But if the feeling in question be nothing more than cheerfulness , a man will not be made ecstatic by the ...
... begin with . Certain intense kinds of happiness may perhaps be raised to ecstasy by the thought that another shares them . But if the feeling in question be nothing more than cheerfulness , a man will not be made ecstatic by the ...
Page 97
... begin this analysis , and it will very soon be clear to them that to cleanse life of religion is not so simple a process as they seem to fancy it . Its actual dogmas may be readily put away from us ; not so the effect which these dogmas ...
... begin this analysis , and it will very soon be clear to them that to cleanse life of religion is not so simple a process as they seem to fancy it . Its actual dogmas may be readily put away from us ; not so the effect which these dogmas ...
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action admit altogether amongst answer arguments belief brain Buddhism Catholic Christian Church claims conceive condemn condition consciousness consider creed denial deny doctrine dogmas doubt dream earth essential dignity eternal evil existence eyes fact faith feeling force Frederic Harrison future George Eliot give heaven highest human imagination instance intellectual intense J. S. Mill kind of happiness Leslie Stephen less live logic look man's matter Matthew Arnold meaning modern moral end mystery natural theism ness never once plain pleasure posi positive moralists positive school positivism positivists possible present profess Professor Huxley Protestant Protestantism purgatory question realise reason religion religious revealed sacred seems seen sense social spirit Stephen struggle supernatural supposed teaching tell Theophile Gautier thing thinkers thought tion true truth Tyndall vague Venus Anadyomene virtue whilst whole words worth
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Page 191 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 86 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 159 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Page 119 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence...
Page 173 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page ix - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 50 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you ?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,
Page 315 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 257 - Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell — who would create the human race with the infallible foreknowledge, and therefore with the intention, that the great majority of them were to be consigned to horrible and everlasting torment.
Page 86 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.