Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions, Reasonably Good-natvred, Concerning how to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to OthersThe Roycrofters, 1906 - 149 pages |
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Page 25
... superstition , like a syphilitic taint . To eradicate this tyranny of fear and get the cringe and crawl out of our natures , seems the one desirable thing to lofty minds But the revivalist , knowing human nature , as all confidence men ...
... superstition , like a syphilitic taint . To eradicate this tyranny of fear and get the cringe and crawl out of our natures , seems the one desirable thing to lofty minds But the revivalist , knowing human nature , as all confidence men ...
Page 27
... superstition One would think that the promise of making a person exempt from the results of his own misdeeds , would turn the man of brains from these religious shell - men in disgust . But under their hypnotic spell , the minds of many ...
... superstition One would think that the promise of making a person exempt from the results of his own misdeeds , would turn the man of brains from these religious shell - men in disgust . But under their hypnotic spell , the minds of many ...
Page 30
... superstition of so long life . Superstition is the one Infamy - Voltaire was right . To pretend to believe a thing at which your reason revolts - to stultify your intellect- this , if it exists at all , is the unpardonable sin . These ...
... superstition of so long life . Superstition is the one Infamy - Voltaire was right . To pretend to believe a thing at which your reason revolts - to stultify your intellect- this , if it exists at all , is the unpardonable sin . These ...
Page 31
... superstition of his wavering and frightened followers . This The revival meetin ' is an orgie of the soul , a spiritual debauch - a dropping from sane and sensible control into eroticism . No person of normal intelligence can afford to ...
... superstition of his wavering and frightened followers . This The revival meetin ' is an orgie of the soul , a spiritual debauch - a dropping from sane and sensible control into eroticism . No person of normal intelligence can afford to ...
Page 34
... superstition , or your beautiful life to them is a byword and a hissing . Hence , to them , superstition , and not conduct , is the vital thing . If such a belief is not fanaticism then have I read Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in ...
... superstition , or your beautiful life to them is a byword and a hissing . Hence , to them , superstition , and not conduct , is the vital thing . If such a belief is not fanaticism then have I read Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in ...
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