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adventure ancient attained beautiful beginning birth body called calm CHAPTER Christ comets condition conscious darkness dawn Deity Divine Spirit early earth eternity everything evil existence experience F. W. H. Myers fact favour feel felt flesh Francis Thompson freedom future genius glory gradually hath Hebrew higher science highest human race Hypotheses non fingo hypothesis idea imagine incarnate individual insight inspiration instance Joseph Larmor kind Kingdom of Heaven knowledge known light living Lord Manichæism matical matter meaning Memoriam ment method militant critics Myers ness notion Old Testament pain parable particles perceive perception perfect physical planet poets problem problem of evil progress Progressive revelation prophets realised reality reason rise scientific seers sense sometimes soul stage statement suffering surely T. E. Brown Tennyson thee theory things Thorium thou thought thro tion true truth utilise utterance vision whole Word Wordsworth
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Page 42 - He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor ; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 33 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Page 130 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Page 29 - Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress: foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 26 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force; God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Page 31 - God, who, being in the form of God, and thinking it no robbery to be equal with God, yet made himself of no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross...
Page 131 - And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies, by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the...