American CharacterT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1906 - 33 頁 |
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第 46 頁 - O world, thou choosest not the better part ! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
第 18 頁 - Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.
第 220 頁 - Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.
第 25 頁 - America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality'.
第 4 頁 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
第 275 頁 - ... reality of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, the peace of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms are together impotent to achieve actuality apart from the completed ideal harmony, which is God.
第 42 頁 - the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts'— need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present— until next year— that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
第 41 頁 - I have always thought that this experience of melancholia of mine had a religious bearing. ... I mean that the fear was so invasive and powerful that, if I had not clung to scripture-texts like The eternal God is my refuge...
第 277 頁 - The purpose of science is to develop, -without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.