I have hinted before in a note, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of... Malthus and His Work - Page 22by James Bonar - 1885 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
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...creation and formation of mind ; a process necessary, to awaken inert, chaotic matter, into spirit; to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul; to elicit an jcthereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and... | |
| James Bonar - 1885 - 456 pages
...the " creation and formation " of the human mind out of the torpor and corruption of dead matter,3 "to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to...(in spite of Solomon) there is nothing old under the sun.4 Difficulties generate talents.5 " The first 1 Record* of Creation, 1816. 2 1st ed., p. 395. 3... | |
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| Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1901 - 862 pages
...mind out of the torpor and corruption of dead matter existing, to sublimate the dust of the eartli into soul, to elicit an ethereal- spark from the clod of clay. The first awakeners of the mind are the wants of the body, and by arranging that the earth shall produce... | |
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| Robert Maxwell Young - Great Britain - 1971 - 372 pages
...the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject the various impressions and excitements which man receives through... | |
| David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through... | |
| Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay. And in this view of the subject, the various impressions and excitements which man receives through... | |
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