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accept advance Ages of Faith altruism ancient appeal Arnold asceticism beautiful belief cathedrals century charm Christian church civilized conception conscience creeds deities divine doctrine dogma ecclesiastical elements Emerson erations eternal ethical sense fect force gradually greater Greek growth hear heart Hebrew higher human thought ical idea ideal immense immortal intel intellectual intelligence Jesus knowledge larger faith lectual light ligion living man's mankind meaning mediæval middle ages modern moral order Mother Church nation nature never noble nobler NOVALIS Odin Old Testament organized outgrown past poet primitive progressive thought Protestant Reformation Protestantism race religion religious instinct religious thought religious truth retreat revelation reverent rites Roman Roman Empire Roman mythologies sanction says SEA OF FAITH simplicity skepticism slowly social society soul Spinoza spirit stincts stone survival teach things tion true universe vision voice wild Williamstown words worship
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Page 1 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 110 - For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No," She sees the Best that glimmers thro' the Worst, She feels the Sun is hid but for a night, She spies the summer thro...
Page 97 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Page 104 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 39 - These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 79 - God. A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions, who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod — Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.
Page 41 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 38 - Science was Faith once; Faith were Science now, Would she but lay her bow and arrows by And arm her with the weapons of the time.