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...great statesman has said, "began Mr. Seeley, "the work of uniting the nations in the band of brotherhood is an effort to enthrone the conscience of the world. This universal consciousness of right and good," he continued, "discerned and obeyed in ever increasing measure, in its unfoldment is 'God with us', the Mind of absolute good. Job discerned this incorporeal and unlimited sense of God, speaking of Him as being in one Mind, while Christ called this parent intelligence Father and Spirit. John, regarding the kindness, mercy and protection of the Father Mind spoke of him as Love. 'God...
...admonished, 'Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted off?' In other words, stop thinking of the mortal, material sense of man as the true man, for there is absolutely no way to account for him as a creature of God...
...offspring of Puritanism and intellectual detachment. It is socially impeccable but not ingratisting. The New Englander is by nature more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
...offspring of Puritanism and intellectual detachment. It is socially impeccable but not ingratisting. The New Englander is by nature more reserved and less responsive than the hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...
...other times Gorky cannot reconcile this god-like side with his coarse peasant brutality or his willingness to lower himself to the level of other men. "Sometimes he seems conceited and intolerant like a Volga preacher, and this is terrible in a man who is the sounding bell of the world." If Tolstoy had let him, Gorky would have worshipped him; as it was he feared, despised, worshipped all at once, but fundamentally he was ever somewhat overawed by the realization that Tolstoy was a genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen...