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...eternal, infinite, self-determined, complete in itself. This is Spinoza's God. This order must have infinite ways of expression, hence Body and Mind. Whereever there is a body there is a thought, not necessarily produced or effective, but parallel; the human mind is a part of the divine intellect and is a thought thinking of the human body; we are in and of God. The wise man in any state meditates on life not death, the lusts of the world do not touch him and he never ceases...
...thoroughly studies the Bible with a view to disprove its truths than to the man who accepts truths in a general sort of way. The Bible must be studied in a new way by college men. Of the college man, being the man of education and intellect, more is expected than of the ordinary, uneducated classes...
...which is nearest to them, namely, of art. The conversations, nine in number, centre upon painting, sculpture, music and literature, but they are always "straying from the direct" and touch all manner of subjects. They contain a mint of information, and show the many-sidedness of Mr. Story's intellect; he is as much at home with the Greek drama as with the English poet, with history as with philosophy, with mesmerism as with criticism. He quotes frequently and aptly from well known authors from all ages, from Cicero and Appollodorus, from Schiller and Goethe, from Coleridge and Wordsworth...
...conduct. The two tendencies, the one towards Hellenism, and the other towards Hebraism, are visibly at work in modern society and Arnold's ideas of culture made room for both. Arnold was convinced, however, that English society he braized too much, and needed men to hellenize, to cultivate the intellect. "The Bible," he said "was not the only book. No man who knew nothing else could know the Bible" Critics of Arnold's system ratner unfairly call it selfish, destructive of religion, dreamy. Yet Arnold does not give one the impression that he was at all times filled with that...
...high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years old Goethe wrote Latin correctly, and while still a child delighted in entertaining his youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study...