The Open Court, Volume 41Paul Carus Open Court Publishing Company, 1927 - Religion |
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... principles of thought and conduct which we still recognize and use today . Even their religion was of a rare purity and sincere honesty so far as the polytheistic hegemony of their age would permit . And it is not within our judicial ...
... principles of thought and conduct which we still recognize and use today . Even their religion was of a rare purity and sincere honesty so far as the polytheistic hegemony of their age would permit . And it is not within our judicial ...
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... principle that every man's philosophy must necessarily start and end with what he knows of himself , and that means humility ; it is never any blatant function of the superiority - com- plex which assumes that we live above the world ...
... principle that every man's philosophy must necessarily start and end with what he knows of himself , and that means humility ; it is never any blatant function of the superiority - com- plex which assumes that we live above the world ...
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... since his advent in the world , nas come about because the call to adventure has been listened to , and because with that the level of daring has continually been raised . The principle is just as true now as 52 THE OPEN COURT.
... since his advent in the world , nas come about because the call to adventure has been listened to , and because with that the level of daring has continually been raised . The principle is just as true now as 52 THE OPEN COURT.
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Paul Carus. raised . The principle is just as true now as ever it was in all time . Whatever progress shall yet be made by the world or by any individual one of us developing humans will come as the result of adventuring , and of daring ...
Paul Carus. raised . The principle is just as true now as ever it was in all time . Whatever progress shall yet be made by the world or by any individual one of us developing humans will come as the result of adventuring , and of daring ...
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Paul Carus. reality , the validity of human reasoning , the ultimate principles of being , the emergence of value in a world of incessant change and flux - these are the essential philosophical problems to be studied and restudied ...
Paul Carus. reality , the validity of human reasoning , the ultimate principles of being , the emergence of value in a world of incessant change and flux - these are the essential philosophical problems to be studied and restudied ...
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Page 8 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Page 279 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward: O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard?
Page 278 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 379 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 230 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Page 755 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree : his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day ; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God ;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Page 7 - I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in everything, and as I was then perswaded, & remain confirm'd, that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.
Page 377 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Page 598 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Page 5 - Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way ; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...