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Strana 335 - To get rid of one's ignorance, to see things as they are, and by seeing them as they are to see them in their beauty, is the simple and attractive ideal which Hellenism holds out before human nature ; and from the simplicity and charm of this ideal, Hellenism, and human life in the hands of Hellenism, is invested with a kind of aerial ease, clearness, and radiancy; they are full of what we call sweetness and light.
Strana 243 - Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang ; " and when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
Strana 244 - Belief .consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul ; unbelief, in denying them.
Strana 245 - The lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.
Strana 262 - For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
Strana 244 - If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay — why not suspend the judgment?
Strana 304 - ... rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of an unresisting merchantman, and to recognize the obligation to take sufficient precaution to ascertain whether a suspected merchantman is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband of war under a neutral flag. The Government of the United States therefore deems it reasonable to expect that the Imperial German Government will adopt the measures necessary to put these principles into practice in respect of...
Strana 243 - Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. 'Nephew,' said Sir Godfrey, 'you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' — ' I don't know how great you may be,' said the Guinea man, 'but I don't like your looks: I have often bought a man much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 332 - Tylor, who has probably read more books about uncivilized peoples than any Englishman living or dead, has concluded that fetichism is a form of spiritworship, and that (to give quotations relevant to the present issue) To class an object as a fetish, demands explicit statement that a spirit is considered as embodied in it or acting through it or communicating by it." ... A further stretch of imagination enables the lower races to associate the souls of the dead with mere objects.
Strana 261 - Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes — these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles. — John Hall. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.