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Excerpt from Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Relgion The point of view in these aphorisms and reflections is that of religion and culture, the general idea being that each one fashions and bears his world with him, and that unless he himself become wise, strong and loving, no change in his circumstances can make him rich or free or happy. The inspiration is faith in the worth and sacredness of human life, in the joy of living,...

Excerpt from Religion, Agnosticism and Education What we call matter is known to us only when it has been sublimated in the soul's alembic, and so the visible universe is a symbol of the Infinite Spirit. Reason springs from conscious communion with the Eternal, the Absolute, the Perfect. Its roots are in the real and permanent, as distinguished from the apparent and transitory. Where there is no self-consciousness there is no truth, no goodne...

Excerpt from Glimpses of Truth: With Essays on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. - Emerson. The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. - Motherwell. Good m...

Excerpt from Socialism and Labor: And Other Arguments, Social, Political, and Patriotic The interest which all who think take in A the laboring classes, whether it spring from sympathy or fear, is a characteristic feature of the age. Their condition seems to be the great anomaly in our otherwise progressive and brilliant civilization. Whether when compared with the lot of the slaves and serfs of former times that of the modern laborer is for...

Excerpt from Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education We cannot comprehend what awakens the purest and profoundest emotions. They who feel God's presence inquire not into the nature Of His being, as a child reposing on a mother's breast asks not how or why she is fair. It is not always necessary, says Goethe, that truth take definite shape, it may be enough that it hover about us like a Spirit and produce har mony. God is before all, withi...

Excerpt from Opportunity and Other Essays and Addresses Love, to urge us, with a power that belongs to nothing else, to lay the stress Of all our hoping and doing on the things that cannot pass away. Poverty, says Ouida, is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings. Lowliness is young. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Lectures and Discourses There is, I think, a unity of thought and design in the Lectures and Dis courses herewith published which the titles they severally bear might fail to make plain. The causes which render men irreligious or indifferent to religion are in general not rational or intellectual, and are never wholly so, and this is the thought which has guided me in the lecture on Religious Indifference. In the discourse which ...

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Excerpt from Essays and Reviews Here published, in the Came/2'6 World during the last eighteen months The essay entitled Religion and Art has been rewritten from a sketch made several years ago. Some of the subjects which are here discussed, hurriedly and imperfectly enough, have at least the merit of dealing with questions of present interest, and throughout the entire volume that which has chie¿y engaged my thought is religion, which, howev...

Excerpt from University Education Considered in Its Bearings on the Higher Education of Priests: A DiscourseReligion and education like religion and morality are nearly related. Pure religion, indeed, is more than right education, and yet it may be said with truth that it is but a part of the best edu cation, for it co-operates with other forces, with climate, custom, social conditions and political institutions, to develop and fashion the com...

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