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Absolute Perfection absolutist abstract affirms agnosticism all-inclusive appearance become Bergson Bradley conceived consciousness creative activity Creative Evolution criterion Demy 8vo distinct divine E. V. Lucas Edward Hutton élan vital emotion ence essential eternal evolution evolutionary process exfoliation existence expression F. C. S. Schiller fact Fcap Fifth Edition finite centres finite ego finitude Fourth Edition function fundamental genius harmony human identity Illus Illustrated immediacy immediate experience immediate feeling immortality impulse inclusive individual Infinite inquiry interpretation J. S. Mill James knowledge life's logic mean memory mental merely metaphysical mind monistic mystic nature object organic Oscar Wilde ourselves past philosophy present principle Prof psychical psychological purely race rational reason regarded relation religious experience revealed Second Edition seeks sense Sixth Edition Spirit termed things thinkers Third Edition thought tion transcendental ego trated true truth Ultimate Reality unity universe Vedanta whole
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Page 302 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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Page 295 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 65 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species') to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 302 - You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
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Page 11 - YEARS OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE. Demy tos. i2r. 6d. net. Underbill (Evelyn). MYSTICISM. A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness.
Page 25 - A religion is a form of belief, providing an ultra-rational sanction for that large class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.
Page 13 - JC Cox and A. Harvey. Second Edition. ENGLISH COSTUME. From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. George Clinch. ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE.
Page 12 - Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.