Culture and RestraintF.H. Revell, 1901 - 350 páginas |
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... nature or thwart it , seek self - limitation or self - expan- sion ? In some moods it appears to us as if the best attitude , as it is certainly the easiest way to peace , is to accept simply what seem the surface facts of our nature ...
... nature or thwart it , seek self - limitation or self - expan- sion ? In some moods it appears to us as if the best attitude , as it is certainly the easiest way to peace , is to accept simply what seem the surface facts of our nature ...
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... natural instincts which de- mand satisfaction ? Both sides seem to represent facts of human nature and of history , and claim to be considered in any com- plete plan of life . This book is an attempt to do jus- tice to both , and to ...
... natural instincts which de- mand satisfaction ? Both sides seem to represent facts of human nature and of history , and claim to be considered in any com- plete plan of life . This book is an attempt to do jus- tice to both , and to ...
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... natural joy of life ; on the other side the method of religion , with its pale and bloodless creed , with the ... nature , a broad and beaten path which invites the feet , where the self is enriched by all the manifold experiences ...
... natural joy of life ; on the other side the method of religion , with its pale and bloodless creed , with the ... nature , a broad and beaten path which invites the feet , where the self is enriched by all the manifold experiences ...
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... nature and of experience , which are assuredly facts , and can- not be left to stand in isolation . There must be some point of reconciliation , some higher unity , which com- bines them both . There is indeed a line of cleavage which ...
... nature and of experience , which are assuredly facts , and can- not be left to stand in isolation . There must be some point of reconciliation , some higher unity , which com- bines them both . There is indeed a line of cleavage which ...
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... nature , but when it is seen degraded and running riot in animalism , a protest be- comes inevitable . But the philosophy , which takes ac- count of the natural demand of our being for self - satis- faction , can be set forth in high ...
... nature , but when it is seen degraded and running riot in animalism , a protest be- comes inevitable . But the philosophy , which takes ac- count of the natural demand of our being for self - satis- faction , can be set forth in high ...
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Página 307 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Página 223 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 114 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark! — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise...
Página 153 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Página 341 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 174 - The Collar. I STRUCK the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the rode, Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Página 125 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Página 175 - I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine 10 Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn Before my tears did drown it. Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown it? No flowers, no garlands gay? All blasted? All wasted?
Página 313 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Página 314 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.