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Lectures IV and V. The Religion Of Healthy-Mindedness.
If we were to ask the question: “What is human life's chief concern?” one of the answers we shoul...
Lecture III. The Reality Of The Unseen.
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possib...
Lecture II. Circumscription of the Topic.
Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essen...
Conclusion
And so we bring to an end what we had to say in praise of culture, and in evidence of its special...
Chapter VI: Our Liberal Practitioners
But an unpretending writer, without a philosophy based on inter-dependent, subordinate, and coher...
Chapter V: Porro Unum est Necessarium
The matter here opened is so large, and the trains of thought to which it gives rise are so manif...
Chapter IV: Hebraism and Hellenism
This fundamental ground is our preference of doing to thinking. Now this preference is a main ele...
Chapter III: Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
From a man without a philosophy no one can expect philosophical completeness. Therefore I may obs...
Chapter II: Doing As One Likes
I have been trying to show that culture is, or ought to be, the study and pursuit of perfection; ...
Chapter I: Sweetness and Light
The disparagers of culture make its motive curiosity; sometimes, indeed, they make its motive mer...
III
We generally know when we wish to ask a question and when we wish to pronounce a judgment, for th...
I
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in t...
V
If the settlement of opinion is the sole object of inquiry, and if belief is of the nature of a h...
IV
The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief. I shall term this struggle...
II
The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something...
A Glossary Of Archaic Words And Phrases
Abridgment: miniatureAbsurd: stupid, unpolishedAbuse: cheat, deceiveAculeate: stingingAdamant: lo...
Of Fame
THE poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravel...
Of Vicissitude Of Things
SOLOMON saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, That al...
Of Anger
TO SEEK to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be a...
Of Judicature
JUDGES ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, an...