Origin of Mental Species: An Investigation Into the Original Growth, Development and Variation of Mental Species with Especial Reference to Their Relation to the Absolute and Its Adaptation to Human Usefulness |
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... attempt to go beyond this point of limitation . Equally obstructive has been that class of people who settle everything by saying , " God made it . " This mental state is , figuratively speaking , the trench deadlock of enlightenment ...
... attempt to go beyond this point of limitation . Equally obstructive has been that class of people who settle everything by saying , " God made it . " This mental state is , figuratively speaking , the trench deadlock of enlightenment ...
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... attempts of the negative attributes of matter compared with the denials in our own conscience . In dealing with the question of Mind , we must give names to the different activities previously named mind , and explain what we mean by ...
... attempts of the negative attributes of matter compared with the denials in our own conscience . In dealing with the question of Mind , we must give names to the different activities previously named mind , and explain what we mean by ...
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... attempt to conceive something that cannot be conceived , in the accepted meaning of the word , it becomes a more diffi- cult task . The highest form of human concept means some form of human outline , whereas , when we have reached the ...
... attempt to conceive something that cannot be conceived , in the accepted meaning of the word , it becomes a more diffi- cult task . The highest form of human concept means some form of human outline , whereas , when we have reached the ...
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... attempted to explain all things had not taught this we would not have the awful mental cataclysm that has followed in the wake of scientific research . The work of the inor- ganic chemist has been the anarchy of events . He has learned ...
... attempted to explain all things had not taught this we would not have the awful mental cataclysm that has followed in the wake of scientific research . The work of the inor- ganic chemist has been the anarchy of events . He has learned ...
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... attempted to account for such things by regarding them as individual characteristics . They are an ex- pression of a mighty force ' that is ever seeking to make itself known to everything that needs it . It is the sov- ereign alchemy ...
... attempted to account for such things by regarding them as individual characteristics . They are an ex- pression of a mighty force ' that is ever seeking to make itself known to everything that needs it . It is the sov- ereign alchemy ...
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Page 101 - Then Peter said unto her ; How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord ? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Page 226 - And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying : " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind ? " Jesus answered : " Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 328 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil...
Page 191 - Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Page 74 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 168 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 209 - Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech : and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: but their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail...
Page 57 - And to the learned, the unlearned man said then, as he does now, " What is the use of all your learning, unless you can tell me what I want to know ? I am here blindly groping about, and constantly damaging myself by collision with three mighty powers, the power of the invisible God, the power of my fellow Man, and the power of brute Nature. Let your learning be turned to the study of these powers, that I may know how I am to comport myself with regard to them.
Page 113 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 59 - ... that nature is the expression of a definite order with which nothing interferes.