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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is...

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...re, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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...felsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I 3 CHAPTER ... ... 3 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C ONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, wit... ...brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still bur... ...and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulph... ...? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philoso phies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors... ...t we have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by ch... ... in our fellow man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the high Platonic Mysticism of our Au thor, which is perhaps the fundamental element of hi... ...ery clouds soon roll together again, and hide it from view. Such tendency to Mysticism is everywhere traceable in this man; and indeed, to attentive r... ...Eyes look through him, then he may be useful. “Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world by the sunshine of what thou calle...

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... 7 LECTURE I. RECENT CRITICISMS OF ?CONSCIOUSNESS? ........................................................................... 7 LECTURE II. INSTINCT AND HABIT ................................................................................................................... 29 LECTURE III. DESIRE AND FEELING ...................................................................

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...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it ha...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, h...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft....

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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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...ns which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon doctoring and earn my living as a writer; so, as soon as I was ?qualified?, I set out for Spain and spent the best part of a year in Seville. I amused myself hugely and ...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to ...

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...R I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER III THE CASTING OFF OF MOREL?THE TAKING ON OF WILLIAM ....................................... 51 CHAPTER IV THE YOUNG LIFE...

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...ening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate teneme...

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