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... tion with mysteries , or tortured their understandings with dogmas , their simple questions might alone suffice to open our eyes on a thousand follies and evils , which our own adult perceptions , warped by early prejudice and dulled by ...
... tion with mysteries , or tortured their understandings with dogmas , their simple questions might alone suffice to open our eyes on a thousand follies and evils , which our own adult perceptions , warped by early prejudice and dulled by ...
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... tion ? That is an impossibility . To feign belief when I have it not ? That were a crime . I can not believe . I will not say I believe , while I believe not A. M. Z. himself cannot surely require of me , that to atone for my scepticism ...
... tion ? That is an impossibility . To feign belief when I have it not ? That were a crime . I can not believe . I will not say I believe , while I believe not A. M. Z. himself cannot surely require of me , that to atone for my scepticism ...
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... tion they excited in them . We should enter and find the long- robed and stern - browed pedagogue , the birch in one hand and the classics in the other , offering to the trembling urchin before him the choice of two evils . We should ...
... tion they excited in them . We should enter and find the long- robed and stern - browed pedagogue , the birch in one hand and the classics in the other , offering to the trembling urchin before him the choice of two evils . We should ...
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... tion , may beneficially supersede the distribution of commerce . It appears that we are wealthy ; that , as a nation , we possess abundantly the means of continuing and increasing our wealth ; and that the only real difficulty before us ...
... tion , may beneficially supersede the distribution of commerce . It appears that we are wealthy ; that , as a nation , we possess abundantly the means of continuing and increasing our wealth ; and that the only real difficulty before us ...
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... tion of the cause , since I can propose no practicable remedy , for present evils . I reply , that the first step towards curing a disease , is to understand its nature . He who shows dis- tinctly wherein an evil consists , has not ...
... tion of the cause , since I can propose no practicable remedy , for present evils . I reply , that the first step towards curing a disease , is to understand its nature . He who shows dis- tinctly wherein an evil consists , has not ...
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Page 14 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 7 - Is it far away, in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold — Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand — Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? " " Not there, not there, my child...
Page 6 - Not there, not there, my child! Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise, . And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or 'midst the green islands of glittering seas, Where fragrant forests perfume the breeze, And strange bright birds on their starry wings, Bear the rich hues of all glorious things? Not there, not there, my child!
Page 16 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Page 18 - And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die : for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 5 - ... eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived.
Page 18 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Page 13 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.
Page 18 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 16 - Is uniformity attainable ? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.