Through Nature to GodHoughton, Mifflin, 1899 - 194 pages Contents: The Mystery of Evil; The Cosmic Roots of Love and Self Sacrifice; Everlasting Reality of Religion; and much more! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 66 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 1 - I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 177 - Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower— but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 75 - 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.
Page 75 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Page 131 - Here sits he shaping wings to fly: His heart forebodes a mystery: He names the name Eternity. 'That type of Perfect in his mind In Nature can he nowhere find. He sows himself on every wind. 'He seems to hear a Heavenly Friend, And thro' thick veils to apprehend A labour working to an end.
Page 177 - I OFTEN think, when working over my plants, of what Linnaeus once said of the unfolding of a blossom: "I saw God in His glory passing near me, and bowed my head in worship.
Page 72 - Thinketh such shows nor right nor wrong in Him, Nor kind, nor cruel: He is strong and Lord. 'Am strong myself compared to yonder crabs That march now from the mountain to the sea; 'Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.
Page 57 - O abbondante grazia, ond' io presunsi Ficcar lo viso per la luce eterna Tanto che la veduta vi consunsi ! Nel suo profondo vidi che s...
Page viii - Contrariwise, the ultimate form of the religious consciousness is the final development of a consciousness which at the outset contained a germ of truth obscured by multitudinous errors.