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...ty has paradoxically been both encouraged and very much compromised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics s... ...n as being toxic, and that as a strategy it must be abandoned. Can the Christian religion transcend itself and give people back their truth and ... ...he idea of God that has been passed down to us by the philosophers and the theologians, but it is not impossible. Buddhists have no God and yet they... ...ception of the World * THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD The pre-Christian religions generally follow this basic scheme: In the beginnin... ...em of evil and pain If a God exists, the God of the philosophers and the theologians who created the universe and the presence of both physical an... ...et’s try to put the artist in the place of the God of the philosophers and theologians, and we will find that an artist creates everything out of not... ...lopment of my reflections on the anthropic principle created by a group of American scientists. Anyone who would like to know more about the anthro...

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...re as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ... speaking of the Buddha as the Ultimate. 35 At the same time, some Western theologians come more than perilously close to speaking of God as a process... ... into hell” between his execution and return to life. Many early Christian theologians held that this means he preached to, and converted, all who wer... ...he Bible is a true record. Even so, it is worth noting that many Christian theologians are not greatly concerned whether the accounts are true or not....

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...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

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...e our needs for and, our views of, an afterlife. The same influences seem to affect our concepts of being— and our reliance on faith and hope. Theolo... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ...alues and righteousness then is caught hustling young boys who work for him, or one who is caught in corrupt dealings, is not living the ideal Christ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ..., or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets, philosophers and theolo... ...evel of mind. Jung was an early associate of Freud. He was a medical doctor, one of many in his family. His family also nurtured a great many theolo...

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............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...nches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.‘ ―Christian theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, approved of the inquisitional methods. ‗... ...e God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Of course Christian theologians, in their infinite wisdom, say that there are three divine per... ...f the world idea, God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural e...

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...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE... ...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 1 Contents: Preface... ...retable! Your imagination may flourish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of the PARADOXISM is especially a revolt of the emigran... ...tipoints. Inside the atom protons+electrons+neutrons co\habit. Theologians have defined the trinitarism as: Father, Son, and Holly Spirit.... ...ion. There are neither a definite end nor an ultimate purpose. The theologians ignore the happening's role, and so the vitalists. Resear... ... scholasticism, urged to "join faith to reason" in order to reconcile the Christian judgement with the rational judgement. For example <mind> a...

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...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...ou may have heard of Shankara, he was the greatest of the philosophers or theologians of Juana. He taught us to use the intellect to open the door t...

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...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...hanced the concepts of more worldly hard work and utilitarian values. Theologians and scholars, many of them monks, became immersed in a new cult...

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...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s i... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...enhanced the concepts of more worldly hard work and utilitarian values. Theologians and scholars, many of them monks, became immersed in a new cult...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...ellectual vision" which leads to the "essence of things". Earlier philosophers and theologians labeled the methodical application of intuitions - t... ... and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some wou... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...ellectual vision" which leads to the "essence of things". Earlier philosophers and theologians labeled the methodical application of intuitions - t... ... and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some wou... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn...

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...al view, the relationship between the fundamental and the incidental: Are Americans universally unselfish, living on highly advanced science and tec... ...k series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203) The point is: absolute truth do... ... series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203 Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Cons... ...e is neither a definite end nor an ultimate purpose. (I don’t agree.) The theologians ignore the happening's role, and so do the vitalists. Accord... ...ot a theist (an awakened scientist? I don’t know what I am.). FS: I am Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim, all at once, yet none. FL: I don’t know...

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...the dual equivalent of weakly interacting five-branes (solitons) (Duff, Scientific American, February 1998). Later, a duality between solitonic and... ...isingly, many of the first spiritualists were ministers and other functionaries of Christian Churches. Three historic developments contributed to t... ...nducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent ... ...e Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn... ... such quests and is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse ... ...and Actuality", 1970) and Sobel ("Logic and Theism", 2004) noted, philosophers and theologians who argued in favor of God's existence have traditio... ...ips between objects and persons, or persons and persons. Some religions (Hinduism, Christian Science) shrug it off as an illusion, the outcome of o...

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...e, wisdom is not an end unto itself, as perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to devel... ... whole text of the Odyssey was not yet available in the West. In addition, Christian mythology also deeply influenced Dante, which 36 was based on... ...power has nothing to do with the god of the philosophers or the god of the theologians. Homer calls this higher power Zeus. I have translated this w... ... another evolutionary phase could emerge from our Europe that is mostly de-Christianized, but is still full of infinite potential:, a phase that inv... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ...

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...teness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther?s for the general American market. Will you do it??...

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... want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther’s for the general American market. Will you do it?” “I will, on one condition.” “ And what is... ...t is that?” “The condition is that I will be permitted to make Luther talk American, ‘streamline’ him, so to speak—because you will never get people, ... ... actually to read Luther unless we make him talk as he would talk today to Americans.” I illustrated the point by reading to Mr. Zondervan a few sente... ...eat. It presents like no other of Luther’s writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ’s meri... ...6 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians the Galatian churches, Jewish-Christian fanatics moved in, who perverted Paul’s Gospel of man’ s free jus... ...nd every blessing. Just for that the world abhors the Gospel. These Jewish-Christian fanatics who pushed themselves into the Galatian churches after P... ...ame time that Christ is God. I cannot get over the blindness of the Pope’s theologians. T o imagine that the mighty forces of sin, death, and the curs... ...the Holy Spirit. 128 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians The Roman theologians teach that no man can know for a certainty whether he stands in...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...comparison are wanting: the equality of conditions is more complete in the Christian countries of the present day than it has been at any time or in a... ...ined to make the best of the social lot awarded to them by Providence. The Christian nations of our age seem to me to present a most alarming spectacl... ...o be dissolved, and all the laws of moral analogy to be abolished. Zealous Christians may be found amongst us whose minds are nurtured in the love and... ...eply again, that the principal opinions which constitute belief, and which theologians call articles of faith, must be very carefully distinguished fr...

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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 nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expr...

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...s possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless... ...es of two centuries and formulated the creed upon which all the exist- ing Christian churches are based, was one of the most disas- trous and one of t... ...hat the Alexandrine speculations which were then conclusively imposed upon Christianity merit only disrespectful attention at the present time. There ... ... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...It is a very childish and unphilosophical set of impulses that has led the theologians of nearly every faith to claim infinite qualities for their dei... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...ion of most honest, simple Christians to-day, was clearly, in spite of the theologians, of a very exalted anthropomorphic personality away somewhere i... ...- tween, let us say, Eusebius of Caesarea and one of Nizam-al- Mulk’s tame theologians. They would be drawn together by the same tribulations; they wo...

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...abroad of that real question which lies below. Essenism means simply this— Christianity before Christ, and consequently without Christ. If, therefore,... ...nism could make good its pretensions, there at one blow would be an end of Christianity, which in that case is not only superseded as an idle repetiti... ...laced by a stolen system; but what replaces the mysterious agencies of the Christian faith? In Essenism we find again a saintly scheme of ethics; but ... ...here is the scheme of mediation? In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of “Essenismus...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...glish in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as wel... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...llowed Mr. Burdett Coutts, in support of Mr. Burdett Coutts, with the most Christian disregard of the nasty things Mr. Burdett Coutts had seemed to be... ...e idea of democracy as universal justice, is free from the jealousy of the theologians and great enough for men to unite upon everywhere. I know how w...

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells “Man’s true Environment is God” J. H. Oldham in “The Christian Gospel” (T ract of the N. M. R. and H.) CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER C... ...aying of his that the aim of socialism—the right sort of socialism —was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on either hand, regardless... ...fault that we’ve differentiated.” “But you haven’t understood the drift of Christianity,” said the bishop. “It’s just to assert that men are One commu... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...f Nicaea, but what did these poor little quibblings and definitions of the theologians mat- ter? He had been worrying about these definitions and quib... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...ough he never failed to please by the charm alike of natural manner and of Christian courtesy; the same spirit of gentleness and kindness very soon pr... ..., and he was ready to give up all, and content to lead the forlorn hope of Christianity, and perish in the front ranks of the noble army. “And having ... ... different case. Your boy is not fit to come into the com- pany of little Christians! Awful as it is to think of, he is al- ready, at his early age, ... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...nd weighty matters? ‘It seems to me as if men who are in no sense divines, theologians, or well read, speak strongly and use expressions and teach doc... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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... sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of worl... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...an, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emperor Diocletian, and penetrated into the ... ...le moment’s grace allowed to Memmius, during which, had he been capable of Christian faith and love, he might have knelt before the cross, and receive... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...potence and outraged, suffering Humanity, combined in one person, than the theologians ever did. This hallowed work of genius shows what pictorial art...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...bank in Clayton. We had met first in the “Par- liament” of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Swathinglea; we had found we attended simultaneous... ...eness upon Him, and redeemed Him from all the implications of vin- dictive theologians; she was in truth, had I but perceived it, the effectual answer... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ... 14 In the Days of the Comet for blatant unbelief. And at the Y oung Men’s Christian Asso- ciation I presently made the acquaintance of Parload, who t... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...u mean?” “That he’s wrong. I don’t think he proves his case. I don’t think Christianity is true. He knows himself for the pre- tender he is. His reaso...

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...upation, and among connections dear to my heart. I should have been a good Christian, a good citizen, a good friend, a good man. I should have relishe... ...l, be reconciled to the bosom of the church, and meet with some charitable Christians, who would make it a point to procure me a situation that would ... ... and (as they assured me) had run through Spain and Italy, em- bracing the Christian faith, and being baptised wherever they thought it worth their la... ... War- rens, therefore, was more useful to me on this occasion than all the theologians in the world would have been. She, who brought everything into ... ...s and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of what they can ex- plain, and makin... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...- peared to have received alms, and took their departure. “Some charitable Christian has sent those vagabonds away ,” thought the sculptor, as he resu... ...ors,—he might have lived a century ago, or a thousand years, or before the Christian epoch, for anything that Donatello knew to the contrary, —who had... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...e, and on the pavement of the church around him,—”a sad necessity that any Christian soul should pass from earth without once seeing an antique painte... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ...potence and outraged, suffering Humanity, combined in one person, than the theologians ever did. This hallowed work of genius shows what pictorial art... ... overstepped the mark, it was sure to be no Roman, but an Englishman or an American; and even the rougher play of this Gothic race was still soft- ene...

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..., and doth hold _500 In secret that the Christian creed Is false, and therefore is much need That I should have a c... ... _510 Far worse than fire’s brief agony As to the Christian creed, if true Or false, I never questioned it: I took it as the ... ...public mind which shook to dust the oldest and most oppressive form of the Christian religion. We owe Milton to the progress and development of the sa... ...ble? CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: Why miserable?— No.—I am what your theologians call Hardened;—which they must be in impudence, So to revile a ... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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...ltaire had done their best and worst with him, profess himself an orthodox Christian, and say and print to the Church of England, with its sin- gular ... ...ale, were to be translated into detail, and become the practical emblem of Christian Sterling on the coast of Sussex in this new age. “It would be no ... ...di- rections, you might have fired a musket through the church, and hit no Christian life. A terrible outlook indeed for the Apostolic laborer in the ... ...im. I mean to read the Book through. It seems admitted that the or- thodox theologians have failed to give any sufficient an- swer.—I have also looked... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

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...hrough no sin of his own, that caused him to be so unfortunate; and a real Christian and pattern, in spite of outsides, though as true a gentleman as ... ...and per ship—my barque Priscilla; and better men than you left, or I ‘m no Christian.’ Temple said briskly, ‘Thank you, captain.’ ‘You may wait awhile... ...ll thank me, if you won’t. But it’s not thanks I look for: it’s my bounden Christian duty I look to. I reckon a couple o’ stray lambs equal to one los... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...borough, who had a heap of manu- script, directed against heretical German theologians, to pack up for publication in his more congenial country: how ...

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...l opportunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...NFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y ... ...of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man. Nothing, that the heart... ...uestion, are here found in, what seems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as ... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ... philosophic Christians doubt or deny. b.—Grace: both predisposing [by old theologians called prevenient] and effectual. c.—Prayer considered as ...

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...is time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the fi... ...at all, from the most characteristic teachings of Christ. This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of t... ... of the ostensibly Chris tian sovereigns who have since reigned, persecuted Christianity. Placed at the summit of all the previ ous attainments of h... ...stand all that can be said against or for their opinions by philosophers and theologians. That it is not needful for common men to be able to expose a... ...hat it is unsatis factory? If not the public, at least the philosophers and theologians who are to resolve the difficulties, must make themselves fam... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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...eek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Liberal Christianity shows it— Optimism as encouraged by Popular Science— The “Mind... ...rieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic state... ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...ows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by others, com... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...matic people who will be the shallow ones, and the worldly minded whom the theologians now call frivolous will be those who are really wise. “In utrum... ...f our organism, the physiologists will tell us, a gift of God’s grace, the theologians say —is either there or not there for us, and there are persons... ...ing God in him by our intention, obedience is easy. But when the text-book theologians marshal collectively all their reasons for recommending it, the...

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...an other qualities of greater name and pretension. Hannah was this woman’s Christian name; and her name and her memory are to me amongst the most hall... ...s of ruffians, prostitutes, felons, stood the description, at full length, Christian and surnames all properly registered, of my Agnes—of her whose ve... ...n some other plea made good by gifts or bribes— some by Jews and others by Christians, perhaps equally Jew- ish. Superadded to these stationary elemen... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ... power of augury amongst the Pagans, (concerning which the most eminent of theologians have held very opposite theories,) one thing is certain, that, ...

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...m Lohn, oder wohl mit schweren Zinsen, wird’s einst zur¨ uckgefordert. ‘Good Christian peo ple, here lies for you an invaluable Loan; take all heed t... ...o my own person, nowhere occurs. Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian ‘Diogenes’ mean? Did that reverend Basket bearer intend, by suc... ...n by act and daily reverent look and habitude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade duty... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ... be fitly entitled King.” “Well, also,” says he elsewhere, “was it written by Theologians: a King rules by divine right. He carries in him an authority... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...of imitation, and the more so, as some- thing similar was commended by the Christian doctrine of patience. While on the subject of these family diseas... ...ich he gave 70 Autobiography me to understand that he was a good Catholic Christian. “Young gentleman, how came you here, and what are you doing?” he... ...etween Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. Benner of Giessen, in particular, wrote against him. V... ...ect. The girls, moreover, were pretty, and were far from displeased when a Christian lad, meeting them on the sabbath in the Fischerfeld, showed himse... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...ound in all the faculties,—nay, in all classes and trades. In this way the theologians could not help inclining to what is called natural religion; an... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...r. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelior... ...oes not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establish- ments and forms some vigor of wild vi... ... wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the sta... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition. Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the Spiritual meaning o...

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ...ms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, mer... ...nto her head to console me!” thought Dolly. “All consolation and counsel and Christian forgive ness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, a... ... irritated today? It’s really ludi crous; her object is doing good; she’s a Christian, yet she’s always angry; and she always has enemies, and always... ...ance—would have set 444 Anna Karenina to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...

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...n him and them. The story is told, for instance, that in the early days of Christianity one such novice, failing to fulfil some command laid upon him ... ...see you at 47 Dostoevsky once. And you will go to her, of course. It is a Christian duty .” “I have only seen her once,” Alyosha protested with t... ...ity, to be set up as the direct and chief aim of the future development of Christian society!” “Perfectly true,” Father Paissy , the silent and le... ...oo—the Je- suits, at any rate. I have read it myself in the works of their theologians. ‘Hast Thou the right to reveal to us one of the mysteries of t... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...