The Spark in the Clod: A Study in Evolution |
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Adam and Eve advance Alfred Russell Wallace AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION answer Babylonia beginning believe Bible body book of Genesis brain brute Buddhism centuries Christianity civilization claim conception cosmogonies created Creator creeds death divine doctrine of Evolution dreamed early earth eternal Euphrates everywhere evolution of religion evolutionary process existence fact faith Father forms Genesis story give God's heart heaven Hebrew higher highest human immortality infinite legend light of Evolution lives lution man's means mind moral nature Old Testament organism origin pain Palestine past physical plan of things plant polytheism probably problem of evil progress prophets Protestant Reformation race reason religion of Jesus religious revelation rise sacred books seems soul spirit stars struggle surely teachings Testament theology thought thousand tion to-day true truth universe Unseen Universe vast Vedas worship
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Page 49 - As to the great oak flaring to the wind — To the grave's low hill as to the Matterhorn That shoulders out the sky.
Page 154 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Page 144 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 130 - For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and verse ; history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song — I have tried all. But I feel I have not said the thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others, 'I have finished my day's work,' but I cannot say,
Page 11 - HE who through his power is the only king of the breathing and awakening world. He who governs all, man and beast.
Page 65 - t were a candle, by men's breath, My soul shall not be taken in their snare, To change her inward surety for their doubt Muffled from sight in formal robes of proof: While she can only feel herself through Thee...
Page 61 - O Love Divine! — whose constant beam Shines on the eyes that will not see, And waits to bless us, while we dream Thou leavest us because we turn from thee! All souls that struggle and aspire, All hearts of prayer by thee are lit; And, dim or clear, thy tongues of fire On dusky tribes and twilight centuries sit. Nor bounds, nor clime, nor creed thou know'st, Wide as our need thy favors fall; The white wings of the Holy Ghost Stoop, seen or unseen, o'er the heads of all.
Page 88 - Nature impales men, breaks them as if on the wheel, casts them to be devoured by wild beasts, burns them to death, crushes them with stones like the first christian martyr, starves them with hunger, freezes them with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exlialations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths \ in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed.
Page 52 - WHERE is one that, born of woman, altogether can escape From the lower world within him, moods of tiger, or of ape? Man as yet is being made, and ere the crowning Age of ages, Shall not aeon after aeon pass and touch him into shape?
Page 133 - I have faith such end shall be : From the first, Power was — I knew. Life has made clear to me That, strive but for closer view, Love were as plain to sec.