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Page 13
... true that human reason is fallible . In- fallibility is an absolute , a concept of the mind , and not a reality . Life has not given us infallibility , any more than it has given us omniscience , or omnipotence , or any other of those ...
... true that human reason is fallible . In- fallibility is an absolute , a concept of the mind , and not a reality . Life has not given us infallibility , any more than it has given us omniscience , or omnipotence , or any other of those ...
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... true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the knowledge that by himself he is the most helpless and pitiful of creatures , while standing together and forming societies and developing moralities , he is master ...
... true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the knowledge that by himself he is the most helpless and pitiful of creatures , while standing together and forming societies and developing moralities , he is master ...
Page 25
... true , and since that time it has not occurred to any professor of political science to visit a farm . And all the while , out in the suburbs of the city where the college is located , market gardeners are practicing on an enormous ...
... true , and since that time it has not occurred to any professor of political science to visit a farm . And all the while , out in the suburbs of the city where the college is located , market gardeners are practicing on an enormous ...
Page 39
... true morality , and it is incompatible with the existence of any fixed code , whether of human origin or divine . The fixed morality is a survival of a far - off past , of the days of instinct and servitude . Human reason has developed ...
... true morality , and it is incompatible with the existence of any fixed code , whether of human origin or divine . The fixed morality is a survival of a far - off past , of the days of instinct and servitude . Human reason has developed ...
Page 41
... true success . It is inconvenient , be- cause it involves working your brains , and most people have not been taught to do this , and find it the hardest kind of work there is . But how much better it is to think for your- self , and to ...
... true success . It is inconvenient , be- cause it involves working your brains , and most people have not been taught to do this , and find it the hardest kind of work there is . But how much better it is to think for your- self , and to ...
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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.