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abiogenesis affirm agnosticism argument assertion Athanasian Creed atheism attitude believe blind body called Catholic Chesterton Christian Church consciousness creed criticism death declared deny divorce doctrine dogmas Ellen Key England English translation Ernst Haeckel eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel Francis Thompson free love Hound of Heaven human ideal immortality Ingersoll John Stuart Mill justify Kant live logical Maeterlinck man's mankind marry materialistic matter Matthew Arnold means ment mental merely mind miracles Miss Key Miss Key's modern monistic monogamy moral mysticism nations nature never orthodox philosophic physical possible principle Professor Haeckel prose prove question reality reason religion religious riddles scientific Scott seems sense Shelley Sir Oliver Lodge social society soul spirit Stanton Coit suffering suicide teaching theology things Thompson thou thought tion to-day true truth uncon universe utter woman women words
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Page 282 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 11 - ... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 276 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 275 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 269 - Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
Page 10 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be a great joy and happiness to you ?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, " No !" At this my heart sank within me : the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.
Page 256 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 9 - I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state I should think in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first "conviction of sin.
Page 12 - He becomes conscious that this higher part is conterminous and continuous with a MORE of the same quality, which is operative in the universe outside of him, and which he can keep in working touch with, and in a fashion get on board of and save himself when all his lower being has gone to pieces in the wreck.
Page 36 - Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, To laugh as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man : The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, — For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river.