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...Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic and a judici...

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...ognized. In Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox, Erik Blaire compares these features to the paradoxes of American politics, violence, and religion. Finding they are inseparable, he proposes that American freedom must therefore also be paradoxical. Armed with clues derived by examining American schizophrenia, obedience, disobedience, and paranoia, Blaire adopts ...

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...ful tête-a-tête facts to have in your repertoire: great visual artists & their works, architects & architecture; classic books & their authors; major religions; Greek & Roman deities; state & country capitals; & the radio/military alphabet....

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...horough and judicial inquiry into the merits of many, if not all, forms of religion, an investigation which has never been made, and from the nature o... ...embodied their “taboos,” their incantations, their habits and customs into religions and stat- utes. A law was only a codification of a habit or custo... ...owledge may have somewhat soft- ened the language of vengeance, still both religion and the law have found their chief justification for punishment in... ...ed in the structure of man. The truth is that it was a part of life before religion and political institutions were evolved. Still, most people are no... ...ace. The emotions of men must be fed just as the body must be fed. To many religion 37 has furnished this emotional life. Churches have provided some... ...lic Church almost none of this is for the poor. To many if not most people religion cannot take the place of joy. Dogma and creed deaden and cannot ap... ...derstand. The love of money is the controlling emotion of the age. Just as religion, war, learning, invention and discovery have been the mov- ing pas... ... that their own con- science is a much higher guide for them than the law. Religions have always taught obedience to God or to what takes His place. R... ...vernment, or advocacy of a change of political systems. Questions of race, religion, politics, labor and the like have always awakened violent feeling...

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...in dress, quite apart from reli- gious feeling; but in Miss Brooke’s case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all... ...able and innocent-looking, while Miss Brooke’s large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking. Poor Dorothea! compared with her, the i... ...an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly 16 Middlemarch speaking, was the dread of a Here... ...f ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion, that submergence of self in com- munion with Divine perfection wh... ...t you know who she was. Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. A much more exe... ...e down any day, when the devil leaves off backing him. And that’s what his religion means: he wants God A ’mighty to come in. That’s nonsense! There’s... ...ne wonders what such people do, without any prospect. To be sure, there is religion as a support. But,” she added, dimpling, “it is very different wit... ... “How can you say he is quite right, Mary? I thought you had more sense of religion.” 105 George Eliot “He is not fit to be a clergyman.” “But he oug... ...me. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. If you come to religion, it seems to me a man shouldn’t want to carve out his meat to an o...

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...lain dress, quite apart from religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke’s case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all... ...able and innocent looking, while Miss Brooke’s large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking. Poor Dorothea! compared with her, the i... ...an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter. “I made a... ...f ecclesiastical forms and articles of belief compared with that spiritual religion, that submergence of self in communion with Divine perfection whic... ...t you know who she was. Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. A much more exe... ...devil leaves off backing him. 88 Book I — Miss Brooke And that’s what his religion means: he wants God A’mighty to come in. That’s nonsense! There’s ... ... wonders what such people do, with out any prospect. To be sure, there is religion as a support. But,” she added, dimpling, “it is very different wit... ... “How can you say he is quite right, Mary? I thought you had more sense of religion.” “He is not fit to be a clergyman.” “But he ought to be fit.”—“Well... ...ime. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. If you come to religion, it seems to me a man shouldn’t want to carve out his meat to an o...

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... tracing the course of evolution in nature, history, economics, morals and religion, little had been done in tracing the development of thought on the... ...According to the form of belief desired, it is called vanity, optimism, or religion. Those who have sufficient power usually imprison or put to death ...

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...m a society based point of view. 217 5 Immoral from a society based point of view. 218 LEGAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS 218 SOCIAL QUESTIONS 220 OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION 220 CHEATING OR LYING 221 Moral from a Self-centered point of view. 221 Immoral from a self-centered point of view 221 Moral from a God perspective 222 Immoral from a God perspective 222 Moral from a societal point o...

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.... 51 POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ............................................................................... 53 POWER AND RELIGI... ................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGI... ... POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY RELIGIONS................................................................... 56 GAINING POWER THRU RELIGI... ...n with Freud. His classic theory was that our natural impulses often lead us to behave in ways that society doesn‘t approve of. So society and religi... ...se their thinking has taken them away from the belief system in which they were raised. By the same token, have people who were raised without religi... ...eist, I would like to think that we have all followed the lane of logic to arrive at our new beliefs. But I have seen people who have rejected religi... ...more saintly than others. In another society it might be to make you the most violent warrior. We need only look at the various sects of every religi... ...very religion to see how the spectrum of holiness varies from an individual union with the Almighty through a mystical experience, through the religi... ...humanity, and to the religious militarism that seeks to annihilate all who do not have the true faith—even those who are members of their same religi...

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...ow you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty-one (31) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life--the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras --to propel your offspring to incredible success -- toward rich, vivid lives....

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...ced procession, she persuaded herself that there was a sufficient aroma of religion about the story to bring it within the pale of Sunday books. The d...

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...enough to be listened to by any- one. Keep it for the fit one of the boys. Religion, morals, brains, balance.” She read each word aloud, bending her h... ...hair, whither she had moved on opening the book. She had always known that religion was infinitely more to her hus- band than ever it had been to hers... .... So said their father; and thus the Magnum Bonum had become very nearly a religion to her, giving her a definite aim and principle. Unfortunately the... ... “But aren’t there speculations and difficulties?” “None which real active religion, and love cannot regard as the mere effects of half-knowledge—the ... ...k steadiness appeared renunciation of all “jest and youthful jollity,” and religion seemed tedious en- durance of what might be important, but, like e... ... the house, those who above all had set them- selves to make obedience and religion seem contemptible, and vice daring and manly. “I should have hated... ...since the break-up of the original home, made conscientiousness, or indeed religion, appear winning to her, neither stiff, nor censorious, nor goody.”... ... the parish, and his enthusiastic nature throwing itself into the cause of religion and beneficence, which was in truth his congenial element; he was ... ...without any bias in favour of Christianity, Buddhism, or any other sublime religion. Meantime he was going home to make his preparations, and pack suc...

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... all their lives. Paul hated his father. As a boy he had a fervent private religion. “Make him stop drinking,” he prayed every night. “Lord, let my fa... ...e. She’s religious—she had blue velvet Prayer- Books—and she’s not as much religion, or anything else, in her than that table-leg. Gets confirmed thre... ... were both brown-eyed, and inclined to be mystical, such women as treasure religion inside them, breathe it in their nostrils, and see the whole of li... ...overs as, with an intellect like a knife, the man she loved exam- ined her religion in which she lived and moved and had her being. But he did not spa... ...aul and his mother now had long discussions about 272 Sons & Lovers life. Religion was fading into the background. He had shov- elled away an the bel... ...nd he had a great tenderness for Miriam. Always, she was sad, dreaming her religion; and he was nearly a reli- 296 Sons & Lovers gion to her. He coul... ...He lay there aloof, careless about her. Suddenly she saw again his lack of religion, his restless instability. He would destroy himself like a pervers... ... now where would he go? And what did he care that he wasted her? He had no religion; it was all for the moment’s attraction that he cared, nothing els...

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...s, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth century -- imperia in imperio, foreign things at home....

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...h, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth cen... ... to change the faith of Japan, and openly professed their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connect... ...ence of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’s faces, not... ... wad hae nae mair words about it!” One thing was noticeable about Robert’s religion: it was neither dogmatic nor sectarian. He never expatiated (at le... ... with his doubts. Both the last talkers deal much in points of conduct and religion studied in the “dry light” of prose. Indirectly and as if against ... ...c- ing Shakespeare’s fairy pieces with great scenic display. A moderate in religion, he was much struck in the last years of his life by a conversatio...

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...d with to accompany them thither, where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom. By the same wife he had four children more born th... ...or friendship. I had caught it by reading my father’s books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into ... ...ring myself into scrapes; and farther, that my indiscrete disputations about religion began to make me pointed at with horror by good people as an inf... ...g man, of great integrity; the others rather more lax in their principles of religion, particularly Ralph, who, as well as Collins, had been unsettled... ... Palmer’s I was employed in composing for the second edition of Wollaston’s “Religion of Nature.” Some of his rea sonings not appearing to me well fo... ...rotes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her husband, whose memory she much revered; had lived much am... ...iv’d opinions, slovenly to extream dirtiness, enthusiastic in some points of religion, and a little knavish withal. We continu’d there near three mont... ...rewarded, either here or hereafter. These I esteem’d the essentials of every religion; and, being to be found in all the religions we had in our count... ...e that might tend to lessen the good opin ion another might have of his own religion; and as our prov ince increas’d in people, and new places of wo...

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...owledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whi... ...the admirable but ill- written character of Javert, the man who had made a religion of the police, and would not survive the moment when he learned th... ...f this great Ayrshire academy. This arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which... ...or the past and terror for the future. He was still not perhaps devoted to religion, but haunted by it; and at a touch of sickness prostrated himself ... ...hard to fancy they are not gravely making fun of each other as they write. Religion, poetry, love, and charming sensibility, are the current top- ics.... ...- ics. “I am delighted, charming Clarinda, with your honest enthusiasm for religion,” writes Burns; and the pair enter- tained a fiction that this was... ...the facts of life. Any conviction, even if it be a whole system or a whole religion, must pass into the condition of commonplace, or postulate, before... ...s, all thoughts, trees and people, love and faith, astronomy, history, and religion, enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not... ... enter upon equal terms into his notion of the universe. He is not against religion; not, 72 Robert Louis Stevenson indeed, against any religion. He ...