Culture and Religion in Some of Their RelationsEdmonston and Douglas, 1870 - 147 páginas |
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æsthetic apprehend Archibald Constable Aristotle Arnold attain beauty become begin believe bring capacities centre cerned character Christian cism College conceive consciousness conviction criticism cultivation CULTURE AND RELIGION Culturists desire devout Divine grace evanescent existence fact faculty faith feel gifts give Goethe Grammar of Assent Greece ground harmony heart higher highest Homer hope human nature Huxley ideal intellectual Judea kingdom kingdom of God knowledge laws learning lecture ledge less light lives logical man's means ment mental merely mind moral ness never objects ourselves outward perfection persons phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy Professor Huxley Professor Huxley's Puritan reason recognise relation religious truth scientific seek seems sense side Sophocles speak spiritual apprehension spiritual things spiritual truths tendency tender conscience theory thought tion true truly UNITED COLLEGE universe whole words worship
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Página 26 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life ,and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check?
Página 140 - deceitful above all things and desperately wicked...
Página 130 - Seven famous towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Página 26 - Yet, it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been...
Página 136 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth ; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Página 27 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Página 49 - Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice ; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds : would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?
Página 27 - My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win — and I should accept it as an image of human life.
Página 29 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 49 - And thus culture begets a dissatisfaction which is of the highest possible value in stemming the common tide of men's thoughts in a wealthy and industrial community, and which saves the future, as one may hope, from being vulgarised, even if it cannot save the present.