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Absolute affirm agnostic agnosticism ality atheism belief Bergson cause Christ Christian complex personality conceive conscious object consciousness constitution deeper degree deny deterministic monism divine mind divine personality doctrine earth élan vital ence eternal evolution existence experience F. H. Bradley fact faculties faith Father finite forms fundamental Gifford Lectures gleam glory Godhead grows hath heart heavens Herbert Spencer higher human limitations human mind human personality human soul immanent infinite instinct intelligence intuition Jesus John Stuart Mill knowledge light logical means mental mystery nature ness not-self noumena noumenon pantheism personal God personality of God philosophy polytheism principle reasoning reflection relation relativity of knowledge religion religious says sciousness self-consciousness sense sonality Spencer spirit stars subject and object subpersonality superpersonal teleologi theory things thinkers thou thought tion transcended Trinity true truth ultimate reality unitary unity universe Unknowable Power vast whole worship
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Page 142 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 129 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 76 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 30 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Page 45 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Page v - THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains — Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns ? Is not the Vision He? tho...
Page 25 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Page 45 - I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, In which the world And all her train were hurl'd...
Page 6 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 126 - No lily-muffled hum of a summer-bee, But finds some coupling with the spinning stars; No pebble at your foot, but proves a sphere ; No chaffinch, but implies the cherubim...