Nine-tenths of theberg is below the water in the
darkness. Let him that is without sin among you first cast thestone seems to me
decisive.
Let him that is without sin among you first cast
thestone seems to me decisive.
Now, the reason can find noargument against this
proposal. This is my mother and these are my brethren who dothe will of my
Father.
By rejecting old truths we bottom them ordiscover
better. To the great agnostic this seemed the perfect ideal of religion, theultimate
of human wisdom.
Aubrey had not that penetration and width of
vision.
Are we to bring virtues and faults to
ripeness?
Thecentrifugal law is also a consequence of the
attraction ofgravitation.
There is more than one Boswell in our English
literature.
Spenser wasa little man, wore short hair, a little
band, and little cuffs. Let us see if a modern comparison will helpus. It is
ridiculous to ask us toaccept injustice and wrong in our governors.
Boswell is a type of the Dutch artist: like another
Tenier he givesus all the small details. In industry it ledto the heaping up of
riches in a few hands and to the sordid misery ofthe many.
Sir John Denham said twas the finest coffin he ever
saw.
Spend as much time as possible in the open air. We
believed in the Reason and were bold to accept noother authority. What shall it
profit a manif he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Will you take part in
the fight between the Haves and the Havenots?
It is ourduty to keep the body in perfect health,
for if it suffers the mind,too, must suffer. Clearly theHebraic precepts are not
binding on us; nor in themselves perhaps veryadmirable. Still,after reading both the
historians, our knowledge of the great man issadly meager and scrappy.
But the idea beckons, a light fixed high above
racial peculiarities orcompensations. But against thisthere is a fixed loathing in
humanity, a prejudice stronger than anyreason. All the things it needs for its
growth it is its duty toget and to enjoy.
He cannot fix foreternity an individual by his
special features.
Whether the prize, is worth the effort must be a
question for theindividual.
Temporary excesses are not harmful; sometimes,
indeed, they arepositively beneficial. The heart, we say, has ahigher authority. The
weak, on the other hand, will suffer out of measure for allmistakes.
We progress from the simple to the complex. The
weak, on the other hand, will suffer out of measure for allmistakes. Naturepunishes
us, as we know; are we justified in forestalling hersentences?