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... sense that Lin- coln is more the exception than the rule in Mead's des- cription of civil religion as prophetic and judgmental of idolatry . Surely , however , Mead is right that the religion of the Republic has often been superior on ...
... sense that Lin- coln is more the exception than the rule in Mead's des- cription of civil religion as prophetic and judgmental of idolatry . Surely , however , Mead is right that the religion of the Republic has often been superior on ...
Page 67
... sense , radical . So many years and ages of the gods those Eastern sages sat contemplating Brahm , uttering in silence the mystic " Om , " being absorbed into the essence of the Supreme Being , never going out of themselves , but ...
... sense , radical . So many years and ages of the gods those Eastern sages sat contemplating Brahm , uttering in silence the mystic " Om , " being absorbed into the essence of the Supreme Being , never going out of themselves , but ...
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... sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me , -had come to where he was still at work , sporting on this bank , and with excess . of energy strewing his fresh designs about . I feel as if I were nearer to the ...
... sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me , -had come to where he was still at work , sporting on this bank , and with excess . of energy strewing his fresh designs about . I feel as if I were nearer to the ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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