Studies of Good and Evil: A Series of Essays Upon Problems of Philosophy and of LifeD. Appleton, 1898 - 384 pages |
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absolute abstract acts actual appears apperceptive span aspect become Bunyan California called cogito ergo sum common sensibility conceived contents contrast deeds define desire Ding-an-sich divine Doctor Robinson doctrine Eckhart Egoism essay essence essentially ethical evil evolution existence expression external fact feeling finite follow functions Georg Simmel God's Godhead Guyau habits Hegel ical ideal idealistic ideas impulses individual inner experience insight insistent intellectual interest involves John Bunyan knowledge land less live Locksley Hall means Meister Eckhart mental merely metaphysical mind mystic nature ness never non-Ego observe once one's organic original outer object paper phenomena philosophical physical possess precisely present problem problem of evil psychological question quietist reality reflection relation relatively rience Sacramento sciousness seems self-consciousness sense sort soul speak spirit squatters sufferer sure Sutter temptation tempter theory things thought tion true truth uncon virtue whole words York Tribune
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Page 52 - The temptation lay upon me for the space of a year, and did follow me so continually that I was not rid of it one day in a month, no, not sometimes one hour in many days together, unless when I was asleep.
Page 31 - ... fall, I can slip out behind these thick walls, and so be preserved notwithstanding. So after this I would yet go to see them ring, but would not go any farther than the steeple-door ; but then it came into my head, how if the steeple itself should fall...
Page 73 - Follow you the Star that lights a desert pathway, yours or mine. Forward, till you see the highest Human Nature is divine. Follow Light, and do the Right — for man can half-control his doom — Till you find the deathless Angel seated in the vacant tomb.
Page 26 - I say, when I was but a child but nine or ten years old, did so distress my soul, that then, in the midst of my many sports and childish vanities, amidst my vain companions, I was often much cast down, and afflicted in my mind therewith, yet could I not let go my sins. Yea, I was also then so overcome with despair of life and heaven that I should often wish, either that there had been no hell, or that I had been a devil, supposing they were only tormentors ; that if it must needs be that I went thither,...
Page 30 - I would go to the steeple-house and look on, though I durst not ring : but I thought this did not become religion neither; yet I forced myself, and would look on still, but quickly after, I began to think how if one of the bells should fall...
Page 37 - And with that my heart was filled full of comfort and hope, and now I could believe that my sins would be forgiven me ; yea, I was now so taken with the love and mercy of God, that I remember I could not tell how to contain till I got home : I thought I could have spoken of his love, and have told of his mercy to me, even to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed lands before me, had they been capable to have understood me...
Page 28 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell ?" At this, I was put to an exceeding maze ; wherefore, leaving my cat upon the ground, I looked up to heaven, and was, as if I had, with the eyes of my understanding, seen the Lord Jesus look down upon me, as being very hotly displeased with me, and as if he did severely threaten me with some grievous punishment for those and other ungodly practices.
Page 382 - ... thirst for knowledge which has dignified his life, and enabled him to multiply tenfold his existence and his happiness. Having done this, its part is played. Our interest in it now is purely historical. The purport of this history is to show how and why the interest in philosophy has become purely historical.
Page 54 - Now was the battle won, and down fell I, as a bird that is shot from the top of a tree, into great guilt, and fearful despair.
Page 31 - Then I chose to stand under a main beam, that lay overthwart the steeple, from side to side, thinking here I might stand sure; but then I thought again, should the bell fall with a swing, it might first hit the wall, and then, rebounding upon me, might kill me for all this beam. This made me stand in the...