The Open Court, Volume 41Paul Carus Open Court Publishing Company, 1927 - Religion |
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... true science and true religion . But all that religion claims to possess may not be there , and , too , the philosopher , even when provided with the scientific method , is not , of necessity , endowed with all knowl- edge . Here is ...
... true science and true religion . But all that religion claims to possess may not be there , and , too , the philosopher , even when provided with the scientific method , is not , of necessity , endowed with all knowl- edge . Here is ...
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... True prophets have always been men of genius , who , having exercised all the gifts with which they were endowed in the extraction of the meaning of events , could with the authority of wisdom and to them the voice of wisdom was the ...
... True prophets have always been men of genius , who , having exercised all the gifts with which they were endowed in the extraction of the meaning of events , could with the authority of wisdom and to them the voice of wisdom was the ...
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... true of the entire body of European culture , except our philosophical and mathematical traditions , but it is more immedi- ately true of that phase of our culture which resulted from the revival of Classical learning in the thirteenth ...
... true of the entire body of European culture , except our philosophical and mathematical traditions , but it is more immedi- ately true of that phase of our culture which resulted from the revival of Classical learning in the thirteenth ...
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... true that great ability should be a help to students , if they are blessed with it , but far more is due to the habit of never doing anything less well than one can ; in other words , of doing one's best . It is the person who " keeps ...
... true that great ability should be a help to students , if they are blessed with it , but far more is due to the habit of never doing anything less well than one can ; in other words , of doing one's best . It is the person who " keeps ...
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... true and nobly aesthetic function , their capacity for artistic expressions to in- fluence and inspire their fellow men ? We do well also in looking back to men of such admirable achievement , and reflect that they did not in the least ...
... true and nobly aesthetic function , their capacity for artistic expressions to in- fluence and inspire their fellow men ? We do well also in looking back to men of such admirable achievement , and reflect that they did not in the least ...
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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...