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That man who has no religious feeling, no matter how orthodox his speculative
opinions may be, is a moral iceberg. We shiver in his chilling presence. He
whose glowing heart-altar sends up an instinctive incense, it matters not towards
what ...
That man who has no religious feeling, no matter how orthodox his speculative
opinions may be, is a moral iceberg. We shiver in his chilling presence. He
whose glowing heart-altar sends up an instinctive incense, it matters not towards
what ...
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... being, into a mere slave of matter and of sense—a lamentable result, which we
in this commercial age have only to look around us to see exemplified in
innumerable instances of prostituted talents, seared consciences and quenched
spirits, ...
... being, into a mere slave of matter and of sense—a lamentable result, which we
in this commercial age have only to look around us to see exemplified in
innumerable instances of prostituted talents, seared consciences and quenched
spirits, ...
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A character such as we have been contemplating is not without its lesson, which
we proceed to consider. It is a generally received opinion in the philosophic
world, that matter tends to inertia and mind to action ; but like most generally
received ...
A character such as we have been contemplating is not without its lesson, which
we proceed to consider. It is a generally received opinion in the philosophic
world, that matter tends to inertia and mind to action ; but like most generally
received ...
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To return : matter, as we have seen, is motive : all matter moves when the repose
of an atom is disturbed, and we surely see motion in matter daily. But even were
a body at rest, it could only be so through the combined influence of opposing ...
To return : matter, as we have seen, is motive : all matter moves when the repose
of an atom is disturbed, and we surely see motion in matter daily. But even were
a body at rest, it could only be so through the combined influence of opposing ...
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All matter, then, is in constant motion— indeed, can only exist in motion; it forming
with heat and some others, a class of qualities as inseparable from material
being as extension or solidity. I suggest these qualities would be more properly ...
All matter, then, is in constant motion— indeed, can only exist in motion; it forming
with heat and some others, a class of qualities as inseparable from material
being as extension or solidity. I suggest these qualities would be more properly ...
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