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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of rep...

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...I. Of Drunkennesse III. A Custome of the Ile of Cea IV. To-morrow is a New Day V. Of Conscience VI. Of Exercise or Practice VII. Of the Recompenses o... ...ld needs shew a tragicall example of revenge. First, he told him, how the day before, he had caused his sonne and all his kinsfolkes to be drowned. ... ...ts; it fortuned not long after, that one of his servants dying, he by this latter accident suffered himselfe to be so far transported, that quitting ... ...ascribing in order the commendations due unto desert, and to the last and latter ranke, what belongs unto the first merit. Aristotle that hath an oa... ...to passe over the river Tesine, and to quarter himselfe in the suburbs of Saint Antonie, being impeached by a tower that stood at the end of the bri... ... du Bellay, the Governour of Turin, in the same conntrey, the Captaine of Saint Bony: all the rest of his men http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montai... ...rding to our requests. Plato in his lawes maketh three sorts of injurious beliefs in the Gods: First, that there is none at all; Secondly that they ... ...e also two, the comprising and the comprised. According to these rules or doctrines, the Nature of things is but a false or vaine shadow. I have eve... ... would learne nothing else of his maisters, Zeno and Cleanthes, but their doctrines simply: for proofes and reasons he would finde enough of himself...

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... went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuries that religious questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It s...

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...s Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Establishment Of Buddhism The Nature Of The Break From Hinduism... ...of religious belief and practice I could find what I was missing in modern day religion. I enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the city of New Y... ...han I had anticipated. The more I learned of the background of theological doctrines, the less relevant to life they seemed to be. I realized that to ... ...s in traditional theology brought home to me the problem of linking church doctrines with personal experience. I could learn the doctrines, but they d... ... in or out of analysis, then meet it head on in someone else, listen to it day by day, month by month. If you do not have the patience for that, then ... ...denied and urged that the Buddha admitted women to be capable of attaining saintship and that it was unjust to refuse the blessings of religion to one... ...hthonous Bonpos occultists [a pre-Buddhist tradition in Tibet]. One of the latter once told me that it is the visualization, rather than the motion of... ...red to give it validity is no longer considered to be true, in the case of Saint Christopher. Saint Christopher was supposed to have lived in the thir... ...et through the same communion mysticism. My own experience, as one of this latter group, is that there is very little of substantial difference betwee...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

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...ion 130 * The cremation 131 * Extinguishing the ashes 132 * Hundredth day memorial rites 132 Message of death 133 Final passage of human life ... ...r loved ones when they go to share a meal with their ancestors on memorial day, why similar white cord or twine is used in rites involving sorcerers, ... ... why similar white cord or twine is used in rites involving sorcerers, why beliefs involving the sorcerer, souls of the deceased and supernatural guar... ...oung people receive influences, they study and read, see on TV customs and beliefs of many strange countries and peoples, and absorb them and abandon ... ... was with my wife when she died, teaching her thamma. It's one of the main doctrines of Buddhism. My wife didn't have any special wishes on her deathb... ...d boys who are taken into temples as servant boys. I'll tell you about the latter first.At first, the boy visits the temple for a month, just to watch... ...e must spend in the temple quite alone. During that time, he must learn 10 doctrines by heart. After that, it is seen whether he coped with being alon... ...wo kinds of funerals. Some people die naturally and some accidentally. The latter is a bad death. I'll tell you first about a natural death. The decea... ...nst a Historical Background. Cambridge Univ. Press. — 1984. The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets. A Study in Charisma, Hagiogra...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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...of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost invariably, the physical or cultural occupier ... ...he defunct Treaty of San Stefano. Serbia colluded with the Habsburgs: Bosnia to the latter in return for a free hand in Macedonia to the former. ... ...Turks in Banitsa, then a Bulgarian village, today, a Greek one. It was in a spring day in May 1903. The death of this sad but steely eyed, heavily... ...ient to ignite the Illinden uprising three months later. It erupted on the feast of Saint Illiya (Sveti Ilija). Peasants sold their sacrificial bull... ...nd even then he failed.' Robbers and brigands operated with impunity: 'Riding one day upon the high-road ..., I came upon a brigand seated on a bo... ...lcev adorns every office in both Macedonia and Bulgaria and he is the closest to a saint a secular regime can have. In 1923, the Greeks transferred... ...rote just before the Second World War erupted, in a curious reversal of pan-Serbist beliefs: "If there were more freedom... Serbia would be Catholic... .... Thus, the activities of the Nationalists were more innocuous than their concocted doctrines. They defaced government buildings, shattered gra... ...(such as the ones espousing the imminence of "rupture"). Unless one declares these doctrines and writings insane, her actions are not. we are forc...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...who has not sinned eat the hottest chili.‖ --―I pray for you every day Con, I pray that we won‘t end up in the same post- mortem place!‖ -... ... ―Some countries are beginning to study what people value—what are their beliefs and what really makes them happy.‖ 15 ―The research ... ... level it might be the principles by which we guide our lives. It is this latter meaning that I want to discuss. ―‗Morals‘ usually refers to t... ...n I speak of ‗morals‘ or ‗values‘ I may be speaking in terms of a person‘s beliefs and actions whether they are based on what the person selfishly th... ...ng the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, the Sabbath, as their day of worship? Will all people who say ‗God damn you‘ go to hell for taki... ... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ...e even called himself a ‗real Christian‘ because he was a follower of the doctrines of Jesus, though not of any Christian sect. In fact when people w... ...h care and furlough employees. ―Things were getting worse in the latter part of the last century, then by 2010 the states‘ budgets were $35...

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...ather than substance. To religious fundamentalists, America is the Great Satan, a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spir... ...han substance. To religious fundamentalists, America is the Great Satan, a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spiritual d... ...I firmly believe that it is better to face a forthright villain than a masquerading saint. It is easy to confront a Hitler, a Stalin, or a Mao, vile... ...abetted by the CIA and the US military. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force ... ...rld's - best bet are a reversion to the Monroe and (technologically updated) Mahan doctrines. Wilson's Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but ... ...e incessant friction and fertilizing interactions with Islam shaped Western values, beliefs, doctrines, moral tenets, political and military institu... ...t friction and fertilizing interactions with Islam shaped Western values, beliefs, doctrines, moral tenets, political and military institutions, ar... ...rice up front. Yet the chaos and corruption in their own homes is broadcast live, day in and day out, into the cubicles inhabited by the very peop... ...about anti-Semitism Narcissistic Leaders Collective Narcissism Hitler - The Inverted Saint Narcissism in the Boardroom Lasch, The Cultural Narcissist ...

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...t should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine all knowledge and to accept as truth only what appears as obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

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...-temporality) is divided into material reality and spiritual reality, the latter being possible to be associated with the past and the future, if we... ...d, completes the spiritualization or dematerialization of the entity, the latter penetrating the future of the spiritual reality. The hypothesis of... ...s of the American space program would allegedly have discovered a lacking day in the time lapse – which would have supposed the temporary modificati... ...d its course in the middle of the sky and wouldn′t set for almost a whole day>. According to the news in the ″Evening World″, the I.B.M. computers w... ...arnation by substitution*, respectively) and it was noted in the mythical beliefs and in the so-called occultist literature. In the case of reincar... ...els, archangels and fire chariots lowered from heaven, the descent of the saints and of the Holy Spirit, walking over waters, <the Ascension>, etc. ... ...bsolute good would seem really unnatural, anomalous. (In ″The Miracles of Saint Sisoie″, G. Topârceanu noticed the grotesque of an idyllic good, by... ...al standards, for example, the Ten Commandments specific to the Christian doctrines. Relating to the Ten Commandments, one must not disregard that ... ...st not disregard that some of these moral standards are also found in the doctrines of many other religions, though they do not represent the 80 ...

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...with Examples 31 Chapter Two UNTOUCHABILITY: PERIYAR’S VIEW AND PRESENT DAY SITUATION A FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS 2.1 Analysis of un... ...371 INDEX 382 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 385 6 Preface “Day in and day out we take pride in claiming that India has a 5000 yea... ...n-laws and ultimately it is a insecurity for having only female children, the latter two cases hold where applicable. 36 On the other hand we de... ... articles, Voltaire wrote, “They (the religious men) inspired you with false beliefs and made you fanatics so that they might be your masters. They... ... 132 customs? So, when we preach that Tamil Nadu does not require the Aryan doctrines as far as it is concerned we need to say that it does not re... ... far as it is concerned we need to say that it does not require the Mahatma’s doctrines. We, who argue that the people should not be divided due t... ...n a book “Vazira susy pramanam” the following is described about the birth of saints: Kalikotu was born in the stomach of a deer, Jambukar was bor... ...ohibited from being carried through dominant caste villages, or buried in the latter’s graveyards. • Tea /coffee served in separate metal/earthenwa... ...nda institution, Chennai, (1981). 88. Veeramani, K., Kanchi Sankarachariar – Saint or Sectarian, Dravidar Kazhagam, (1985). 89. Veeramani, K., Per...

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...hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradually, the former will replace the latter. The evolution of certain non-government organizations f... ... skills typical of human toddlers and of humans with arrested development. Yet, the latter enjoy rights denied the former. According to Wise, there... ...ers. The Talmudic dictum establishes a privileged moral club (very similar to later day social contractarianism) comprised of oneself and one's fri... ...mites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and language. Anyone can become... ..."egoistic" - and the mutilation of others (serial killers, Hitler). About inverted saints: http://samvak.tripod.com/hitler.html About serial kille... ...esh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."... ... receive special treatment in economic theory. Government is alternately cast as a saint, seeking to selflessly maximize social welfare - or as the... ...nature of the society that bred him, the flux of norms, conventions, paradigms and doctrines which formed the society which chose him. A standard t... ...(such as the ones espousing the imminence of "rapture"). Unless one declares these doctrines and writings insane, her actions are not. we are forc...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

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...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...ends is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables wires bend light every day. However, what Science does not recognize is that light bends nat... ...t can bend is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables bend light every day. But light bending in Outer Space without needing an optical lens... ...led: hate, fear, cowardice, all of our fixed-unchanging ideas-values-attitudes-beliefs are frozen inside an unknown, unexplored, unexplained, undecip... ...are uncritical about their own culture. Humans are uncritical about their own beliefs. Humans believe myths without trying to sift the truth from t... ... exceptions to this principle. Today: Modern Science preaches both of these doctrines without explaining or admitting this illogical paradox. You... ...he colored glass refracting natural sunlight and using it to glorify Christian Saints, Christian Myths, er Truths. The masses not allowed to go out... ...rn? The very fact that Science has glorified Albert Einstein to the point of sainthood speaks of their utter evilness and the utter evilness what Sc... ...on whatever scapegoat is most handy. That is what happened in Germany in the latter part of WWII. People still do not realize how insidiously a...

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...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... .... This is not a realistic model - merely a useful approximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people re... ...is not a realistic model - merely a useful approximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain f... ... receive special treatment in economic theory. Government is alternately cast as a saint, seeking to selflessly maximize social welfare - or as the... ... causality". The former is concerned with important variables unaccounted for - the latter with reciprocal causation, when every cause is also cause... ... they stay put. Yet it is hard to incorporate this "downward stickiness" in present-day inflation measures. The methodology of computing inflation o... ...which allows manufacturers to lower prices. But jealousy is premised on the twin beliefs of equality and a level playing field. "I am as good, as... ...ing the recent mega-crisis in Asia, that IFIs began to "reinvent" themselves, their doctrines and their recipes. This added conceptual and theoretic... ...ions, that he will never be effected by the results of his own decisions, opinions, beliefs, deeds and misdeeds, acts, inaction, or membership of c...

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... servant. He added nothing to the furniture of his bedroom where, from the day of his wedding to the day he left the house, twenty years later, there ... ...- nity; in fact, it resembled the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the shrewdest,... ...mall amount of wood they burned in winter they bought of itinerant sellers day by day. By seven in win- ter, by nine in summer, the household was in b... ...y at the sacrament and to all the collections in church. When the vicar of Saint-Etienne called to ask help for his poor, Sauviat or his wife fetched ... ...ement of the neighborhood, the former part- ners of the bridegroom and the latter’s two clerks. The street was lined with spectators, all anxious to s... ...me Sauviat came nearly every day into Limoges to see her daughter, and the latter still continued to make her mother’s house, from which was a charmin... ... the merit of his colleague, recognized his talents, secretly accepted his doctrines, and condemned them openly; for the little priest was one of thos... ...ng, even over feelings, and doubt mocks tender certainties by calling them beliefs; others abandon politics at a period when power seems to be an expi... ...ges to the graceful inventions of Greece, or the profound and metaphysical doctrines of Egypt and In- dia, whether taught in cheerful or in terrifying...

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...In the present Editor’s way of thought, this remarkable Treatise, with its Doctrines, whether as judicially acceded to, or judicially denied, has not ... ..., for the while, shut out from all public utterance of these extraordinary Doctrines, and con- strained to revolve them, not without disquietude, in t... ...in echter Spass-und Galgen- vogel, said several; meaning thereby that, one day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt d... ...een yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To-day, with- out a Yesterday or a To-morrow; and had not rather its Ancestor ... ...val brightness, even here, though but for moments, look through? Well said Saint Chrysostom, with his lips of gold, ‘the true SHEKINAH is Man:’ where ... ...s small favor with Teufelsdrockh, much as he otherwise venerates these two latter processes. “Shall your Science,” exclaims he, “proceed in the small ... ...with us, courageous reader; be it towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II CH... ...ing Foun- 113 Thomas Carlyle tain. To many fondly imagined Fountains, the Saints’ Wells of these days, did I pilgrim; to great Men, to great Cities, ... ... Axioms, let us boast of Free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such Beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Nay, what is Philosophy througho...

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...ve your remark till we get to that part of our discussion—tomorrow or next day, say. Now, then, have you been considering the proposition that no act ... ...lly, and goes to the East Side and preaches Christ and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half civilized foreign paupers who ... ..., and which breed of mass meetings he doesn’t attend, except to refute its doctrines with brickbats. We are always hearing of people who are around s... ...n reflection I have arrived at the conviction that the publication of your doctrines would be harmful. Do you pardon me? O.M. Pardon you? You have do... ...m un happy. Y.M. What—not even a degrading and heart chilling sys tem of beliefs? O.M. Beliefs? Mere beliefs? Mere convictions? They are powerless. ... ... her very own child—she wore herself out present hunting in New York these latter days. Paine has just found on her desk a long list of names— fifty, ... ...t said, “Be weak, be water, be characterless, be cheaply persuadable.” The latter command, to let the fruit alone, was certain to be disobeyed. Not by... ...—Virgin. Nothing could be whiter; nothing could be purer; nothing could be saintlier of aspect. At six yesterday evening the great intervening barrier... ...ation of blinding white. It is said the Fridolin (the old Fridolin), a new saint, but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He w...

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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is...

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...could ever calmly, with their eyes open, believe and live by such a set of doctrines. That men should have worshipped their poor fellow-man as a God, ... ...it is possible for a man to arise great enough to feel that they and their doctrines are chimeras and cobwebs. And what is notable, in no time what- e... ...mmentaries, Icelan- dic or not, which go on zealously in the North to this day, it is possible to gain some direct insight even yet; and see that old ... ...at Sea-tempest is the Jotun Aegir, a very dangerous Jotun;—and now to this day , on our river T rent, as I learn, the Nottingham bargemen, when the Ri... ...rms of religion. Here, indeed, is a great distinction and ep- och in Human Beliefs; a great landmark in the religious de- velopment of Mankind. Man fi... ...e forest-fellers as well as fighters, though the Skalds talk mainly of the latter,—misleading certain critics not a little; for no nation of men could... ...th has now stood for many centuries, dedicated gratefully to his memory as Saint Olaf. The mythus about Thor is to this effect. King Olaf, the Christi... ...doubtless; but infinitely more of circumstance; and far oftenest it is the latter only that are looked to. But it is as with common men in the learnin... ... Poets, if not deified, yet we may say beatified? Shakspeare and Dante are Saints of Poetry; really, if we will think of it, canonized, so that it is ...

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...fitable for human society; it will be marriage; and yet the council of the saints find the contrary much better, excluding from it the most venerable ... ...age to another, or, as the people say, from seven to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute, I must accommodate my history to the hou... ...nd doubting, purely and simply referring myself to the common and accepted beliefs for the resolution. I do not teach; I only relate. There is no vice... ... is violent, and, ’tis said, sometimes not to be overcome. Being the other day at Armaignac, on the estate of a kins- man of mine, I there saw a peasa... ...ered he should be forbidden to entertain his followers with such homicidal doctrines, did not consider death in itself, neither did they judge of it; ... ... are no opposing desires. It is true, they may say, but we will not yield; saints themselves speak after that manner. I mean those who boast in good g... ...nts are the popular rumours and opinions. ’Tis their part to relate common beliefs, not to regulate them: that part concerns divines and philosophers,... ... suffer for you; both of them inconveniences of importance enough, but the latter appears to me the greater. ’Tis a rare fortune, but of inestimable s... ...lian, xi. 3.] Speaking is half his who speaks, and half his who hears; the latter ought to prepare himself to receive it, according to its bias; as wi...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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............................................. 214 Lectures XI, XII, and XIII: SAINTLINESS .................................................................. ..................................... 253 Lectures XIV and XV : THE V ALUE OF SAINTLINESS .................................................................. ...EALITY OF THE UNSEEN Per- cepts versus abstract concepts— Influence of the latter on belief— Kant’s theological Ideas— We have a sense of reality othe... ... higher control—Relations of the emo- tional “faith-state” to intellectual beliefs— Leuba quoted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; ... ...-509, and to the “Postscript” of the book. I hope to be able at some later day to express them in more explicit form. 10 The V arieties of Religious ... ...which he founded is some- thing which it is impossible to overpraise. In a day of shams, it was a religion of veracity rooted in spiritual inwardness,... ...- soning one hears in favor of the sexual theory. But the champions of the latter will then say that their chief argument has no analogue elsewhere. T... ...ange. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our DIS- beliefs, could retain any value as revelations... ...r any doubt of it to be possible. Theology, com- bining this fact with the doctrines of election and grace, has concluded that the spirit of God is wi...

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.... In the present Editor’s way of thought, this remarkable Treatise, with its Doctrines, whether as judicially acceded to, or judicially denied, has no... ...lf, for the while, shut out from all public utterance of these extraordinary Doctrines, and constrained to revolve them, not without disquietude, in t... ...that, one 2 Gukguk is unhappily only an academical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt... ...creen yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To day, without a Yesterday or a To morrow; and had not rather its Ancestor ... ...meval brightness, even here, though but for moments, look through? Well said Saint Chrysostom, with his lips of gold, ‘the true SHEKINAH is Man:’ wher... ...s small favor with Teufelsdr¨ ockh, much as he otherwise venerates these two latter processes. “Shall your Science,” exclaims he, “proceed in the smal... ...d with us, courageous reader; be it towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II... ...must be somewhere a healing Fountain. To many fondly imagined Fountains, the Saints’ Wells of these days, did I pilgrim; to great Men, to great Cities... ...ry Axioms, let us boast of Free thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such Beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Nay, what is Philosophy throug...

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...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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...r there, who seem to get busier and keener every hour. I could imagine the day of reckoning coming like a swarm of birds. Here the air is full of the ... ... basis for confidence in the future of the Empire. We have still our Derby Day, of course.... Apart from these patriotic solicitudes, M. Blériot has s... ...loyees to prevent their striking and a real and honest co-partnery. In the latter case a great enterprise, forced to consider its “hands” as being als... ... of priest. Typically, the temple is devoted to a local god or a localised saint, and its position indicates the central point of the local- ity, its ... ...ky overhead have grown most of the tradi- tions, institutions, sentiments, beliefs, superstitions, and fun- damental songs and stories of mankind. But... ...no toleration and displayed no toleration for novelty and strangeness. Its beliefs have been on such a nature as to justify and sustain itself, and it... ...ays subdued the individual to the needs of the Normal Social Life, and the latter that quali- fied independence of distributed property which is the b... ...eek a form of replacement and seem partially to find it in these and other doctrines. Nearly all contemporary thinkers who are not too muddled to be a... ... or she was really profoundly and correctly good, or to unmask an apparent saint and show the hypocrite. There was no such penetrating and pervading e...

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...r indus- try, in such a sense as to admit of its being confounded with the latter. There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the dispa... ...ground seemed more imperative and more definitive then than is the case to-day. As a fact in the se- quence of development, therefore, the distinction... ...inction has not fallen into disuse. The tacit, common-sense distinction to-day is, in effect, that any effort is to be accounted industrial only so fa... ...ists who adhere with least falter- ing to the body of modernised classical doctrines, to con- strue this struggle for wealth as being substantially a ... ...called higher wants — spiritual, aesthetic, intellectual, or what not; the latter class of wants being served indirectly by an expen- diture of goods,... ... fittings have something of this aus- terity in all the cults in which the saint or divinity to whom the sanctuary pertains is not conceived to be pre... ...i- cal element as expresses itself, under a variety of forms, in animistic beliefs and anthropomorphic creeds. So far as con- cerns those tangible psy... ... other end, with all intervening stages of integration. Coupled with these beliefs in preternatural agency goes an instinctive shaping of conduct to c... ...construed as a season of vicari- ous leisure performed for the divinity or saint in whose name the tabu is imposed and to whose good repute the absten...

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...n, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury . The latter case, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compul... ... interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear. This aspect of... ...hough the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the T udors, there is little danger of its b... ...tiousness but cowardice to shrink from act ing on their opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, ... ...r ant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonization of a saint, admits, and listens patiently to, a “devil’s advocate.” The holies... ... kind could not feel as complete assurance of its truth as they now do. The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but... ...ay rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty at tainable by a fallible being, an... ... with which mankind now regard these lamentable transactions, especially the latter of the two, render them ex tremely unjust in their judgment of th... ...han they themselves are, ought to remember that one of those persecutors was Saint Paul. Let us add one more example, the most striking of all, if the...

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...d the pro fession; having satisfied himself that he could not believe the doctrines of that or any other Church. For a few years he was a private tut... ...e added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of ... ...rs, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. T o the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather tha... ...ter Scott, I used to sing internally, to a music of my own: to some of the latter, indeed, I went so far as to compose airs, which I still remember. C... ...t this time I also read the whole of Tacitus, Juvenal, and Quintilian. The latter, owing to his obscure style and to the scholastic details of which m... ...cardo, the most modest of men, though firmly convinced of the truth of his doctrines, deemed himself so little capable of doing them justice in exposi... ...ken, apprehension, lest by speaking out what would tend to weaken existing beliefs, and by consequence (as they suppose) existing restraints, they sho... ... house; among whom I have pleasure in the recollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and ... ...led himself, and even announced him self in the title page as, a pupil of Saint Simon. In this tract M. Comte first put forth the doctrine, which he ...

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...nn sylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...h the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, ... ...on, as the asylum of my declining years—a re treat which was rendered every day more necessary as INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED... ...tions on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted. To the foregoing observatio... ...ments of war in a state to be brought into activity in the event of war; the latter, retained within the limits proper in a state of peace, might aid ... ...u rity and to adopt as the basis of my public policy those great republican doctrines which constitute the strength of our national existence. In ref... ...of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the glob... ...en any citi zen denies his fellow, saying, “His color is not mine,” or “His beliefs are strange and different,” in that moment he betrays America, th... ...hin ourselves. We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF...

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... everybody knows: but it would be want of good manners not to acknowledge what so many are witnesses of, and every day tell me I am indebted to your l... ... was no cause for scruple. Though I am forced to differ from him in these appre- hensions he has expressed, in the latter end of his pref- ace, concer... ...ng and education having not cast their native thoughts into new moulds; nor by super- inducing foreign and studied doctrines, confounded those fair ch... ...at- ing abundance of their enemies. They have not so much as a name for God, and have no religion, no worship. The saints who are canonized amongst th... ...modesty relate. A remark- able passage to this purpose, out of the voyage of Baumgarten, which is a book not every day to be met with, I shall set dow... ...oncubitor atque mularum. (Peregr. Baumgarten, 1. ii. c. I. p. 73.) More of the same kind concerning these precious saints amongst the Turks 53 John L... ...s it, faciunt ad hominis conservationem. 6. Modus conformationis, i.e. Assensus mulla interposita mora. And at the latter end of his little treatise D... ...onderful, if we consider the ways and steps by which it is brought about; and how really it may come to pass, that doctrines that have been derived fr... ...from our passions or interests, so it should receive no tincture from them. 2. A forwardness to dictate another’s beliefs, from whence. The assuming ...