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 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 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 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 66 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
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 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.
Page 37 - ... be lacking ; the goodness would have no more significance in our conscious life than that load of atmosphere which we are always carrying about with us. We are thus brought to a striking conclusion, the essential soundness of which cannot be gainsaid. In a happy world there must be sorrow and pain, and in a moral world the knowledge of evil is indispensable.
Page 37 - The stern necessity for this has been proved to inhere in the innermost constitution of the human soul. It is part and parcel of the universe. To him who is disposed to cavil at the world which God has in such wise created, we may fairly put the question whether the prospect of escape from its ills would ever induce him to put off this human consciousness, and accept in exchange some form of existence unknown and inconceivable!