The Moral Ideal: A Historic StudyTrübner, 1888 - 394 pages |
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Æneid Ahriman ancient antagonism antiquity antithesis aspect associated Augustinian belief belongs Brahman character Christianity claim conflict contrast Creation Creator Dæmon darkness dawn death Demiurgus desire discern distinctness Divine dominion dualism earth Edipus element Epictetus eternal evil existence expression fact faith Fall feeling felt Freedom genius Gnosticism Greece Greek harmony Heaven Hebrew Herodotus Holy Holy Order hope human Ibid idea ideal imagination impulse Indian individual influence interest legend light Lucretius man's Manichæanism Marcus Aurelius meaning mind Mithra moral nation nature never origin Ormazd Pantheism perhaps Persian Philo Plato Plutarch poet point of view principle problem of Evil protest race realm recognize relation religion reverence Roman Rome sacred seems sense shadow side slave Socrates Sophocles soul spirit symbol sympathy things thinkers thought Thucydides tion true truth unity Varuna Virgil virtue whole word yearning Zoroaster καὶ
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Page 306 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : When he set a compass upon the face of the depth : When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment : When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with hint: And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the...
Page 145 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 77 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 172 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 284 - If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
Page 343 - I look out of myself into the world of men, and there I see a sight which fills me with unspeakable distress. The world seems simply to give the lie to that great truth, of which my whole being is so full...
Page 306 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 78 - For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name; I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Page 77 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 27 - As the sun, the eye of the whole world, is not contaminated by the external impurities seen by the eyes, thus the one Self within all things is never contaminated by the misery of the world, being himself without.