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Page 29 - It signifies to us nothing other than an Absolute Spiritual Life in its grandeur above all the limitations of man and the world of experience — a Spiritual Life that has attained to a complete subsistence in itself, and, at the same time, to an encompassing of all reality.
Page 19 - Anyone who thinks it all over and reflects upon the difference between the enormous labour that has been expended and the accompanying gain to the essentials of life must either be driven to complete negation and despair, or must seek new ways of guaranteeing a value to life and liberating men from the sway of the pettily human. But this will force men to resume the quest for inner connections.
Page 9 - A paralyzing doubt saps the vitality of our age. We see a clear proof of this in the fact that, with all our astounding achievements and unremitting progress, we are not really happy. There is no pervading sense of confidence and security. . . . Alternative systems, alternative ideals, fundamentally different in kind, solicit alike our adhesion.
Page 19 - Hence we do not find any meaning or value in life, but in the end a single huge show in which culture is reduced to a burlesque. Anyone who thinks it all over and reflects upon the difference between the enormous labour that has been expended and the accompanying gain to the essentials of life, must either be driven to complete negation and despair, or must seek new ways of guaranteeing a value to life and Liberating man from the sway of the pettily human.
Page 19 - ... demands. We feel, with increasing distress, the wide interval between the varied and important work to be done at the circumference of life and the complete emptiness at the centre. When we take an inside view of life we find that a life of mere bustling routine preponderates, that men struggle and boast and strive to outdo one another, that unlimited ambition and vanity are characteristic of individuals, that they are always running to and fro, and pressing forward, or feverishly exercising...
Page 24 - But one thing we must, above all, bear in mind — that if the invisible world is to have the requisite stability and breadth, it cannot be the mere object of our finite longing or any inference laboriously drawn from the conditions of our finite experience ; it must be completely independent, and exist in its own right. And this is impossible unless we are...
Page 35 - ... individual, the greater, the more unique, appear his personality and his world of thought. The life, at once transparent and unfathomable, that rises before us, enables us to look deep into the soul of the man, and brings his personality as a whole near to every heart, as near as only man can be to man. In the innermost traits of his being, Jesus is more transparent and familiar to us than any hero of the world's history. The doubt and conflict which none the less existed and still exist as to...
Page 46 - Me that the Father is in Me and I am in the Father." That He said this concerning His Human, is evident from the words that immediately precede, " He that seeth Me, seeth the Father," etc. I can assert, and declare it as certain, that such as is man's idea of faith concerning the Lord, such is the conjunction that he has in heaven. FROM EXPERIENCE. Because it...
Page 34 - That life of Jesus establishes evermore a tribunal over the world ; and the majesty of such an effective bar of judgment supersedes all the development of external power.
Page 33 - Religion, p. 509. certainly as there is only one sole truth, there can be only one absolute religion, and this religion coincides entirely in no way with any one of the historical religions.
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| Title | Rudolf Eucken's Message to Our Age--: An Appreciation and a Criticism |
| Author | Henry Clay Sheldon |
| Publisher | Eaton & Mains, 1918 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 6, 2007 |
| Length | 55 pages |
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