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... form ; they have creeds and catechisms which they know by heart , and if you suggest to them anything different , they give you a startled look and get out of your way . And then there is another , and in our modern world a still larger ...
... form ; they have creeds and catechisms which they know by heart , and if you suggest to them anything different , they give you a startled look and get out of your way . And then there is another , and in our modern world a still larger ...
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... forms of energy manifesting themselves as matter ; he shows how all living things arise from that and sink back into it . But question this scientist more closely . What is this " matter " that you are so sure of ? How do you know it ...
... forms of energy manifesting themselves as matter ; he shows how all living things arise from that and sink back into it . But question this scientist more closely . What is this " matter " that you are so sure of ? How do you know it ...
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... forms - that is to say , forms more complex and subtly contrived , capable of more intense and enduring kinds of that satisfaction which is nature's warrant of life . If you wish to take up this state- ment and argue about it , please ...
... forms - that is to say , forms more complex and subtly contrived , capable of more intense and enduring kinds of that satisfaction which is nature's warrant of life . If you wish to take up this state- ment and argue about it , please ...
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... form of cannibalism which we call " making money . " We have survived in the struggle for existence by the cooperative and social use of our powers of judgment ; and our judgment is that which selects among forms of growth , which gives ...
... form of cannibalism which we call " making money . " We have survived in the struggle for existence by the cooperative and social use of our powers of judgment ; and our judgment is that which selects among forms of growth , which gives ...
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... form of conduct - and find myself in conflict with the " faith " of the ancient State of Delaware , which obliges me to serve a term in its state's prison for having innocently and unwittingly desecrated its day of holiness ! If you ...
... form of conduct - and find myself in conflict with the " faith " of the ancient State of Delaware , which obliges me to serve a term in its state's prison for having innocently and unwittingly desecrated its day of holiness ! If you ...
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Page 196 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 197 - Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And have nothing, yet hath all.
Page 197 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend.
Page 39 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 44 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 174 - I would not like to guess just what percentage of dying people in our hospitals might be saved if the doctors would withdraw all food from them...
Page 21 - ... reactionary (according as he placed his good either in the future or the past), or, thirdly, pessimistic, as in the poetry of regret or of despair. Hesiod sings of a lost golden age, and in this he represents the most pervading sentiment of ancient culture. Dante, on the other hand, had fixed his gaze on ' one far off divine event, towards which the whole Creation moves.
Page 41 - I say to you that if you want to find happiness in this life, look with distrust upon all absolutes, and ultimates, all hard and fast rules, all formulas and dogmas and "general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific...
Page 41 - ... general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific attitude toward life; this is the way of growth and of true success. It is inconvenient, because it involves working your brains, and most people have not been taught...
Page 173 - I have known of two or three cases of people dying while they were fasting," Sinclair writes in his Book of Life, "but I feel quite certain that the fast did not cause their death, they would have died anyhow.