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... hand , you have knocked about in the world and lost your " faith " ; you have been cheated and ex- ploited , and have set out to " get yours , " as the phrase is ; to " feather your own nest . " But some gust of passion seizes you , and ...
... hand , you have knocked about in the world and lost your " faith " ; you have been cheated and ex- ploited , and have set out to " get yours , " as the phrase is ; to " feather your own nest . " But some gust of passion seizes you , and ...
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... hand , some devoted young Socialists of my acquaintance have read Haeckel and Dietzgen , and adopted the dogma that matter is the first cause , and that all things have grown out of it and return to it ; they have seen that the brain ...
... hand , some devoted young Socialists of my acquaintance have read Haeckel and Dietzgen , and adopted the dogma that matter is the first cause , and that all things have grown out of it and return to it ; they have seen that the brain ...
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... hand and the subtlest wit of his brain , and uses them to manufacture poison gases . At the present hour he is painfully realizing that his poison formulas all become known to the tribes whom he calls his enemies , and so it is his own ...
... hand and the subtlest wit of his brain , and uses them to manufacture poison gases . At the present hour he is painfully realizing that his poison formulas all become known to the tribes whom he calls his enemies , and so it is his own ...
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... hand it may be that consciousness is now dawning in the universe for the first time . It may be that it is an accident , a fleeting product like the morning mist on the mountain top . On the other hand , it may be that it is destined to ...
... hand it may be that consciousness is now dawning in the universe for the first time . It may be that it is an accident , a fleeting product like the morning mist on the mountain top . On the other hand , it may be that it is destined to ...
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... hand it down to your children forever ? Yes , of course , that is stealing , you say ; but at once you have to revise your statement . It is not stealing if it was done a sufficient number of years ago ; in that case the results of it ...
... hand it down to your children forever ? Yes , of course , that is stealing , you say ; but at once you have to revise your statement . It is not stealing if it was done a sufficient number of years ago ; in that case the results of it ...
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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 46 - 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 85 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
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 8 - Herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue. But for her, the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted...
Page 184 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Page 41 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 42 - Do unto others as they would do unto you, but do it first.
Page 115 - The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.