Word: truth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is a world of startling possibilities in which nature ever meets us with wondrous surprises. Again and again fertile minds startle us with inventions which would have seemed supernatural to the past generation. Is it too much to suppose that in the higher realms of a world where "truth is stranger than fiction" we may not discover the great truth of Immortality? Hope cannot live without immortality, and life cannot go on without hope...
...more picturesque. He was ardent, combative, filled with poetry and romance, instantaneously responsive in his feelings. "I hold it," he said, "a part of my business to do what I can for every wight that comes to this place"; and thousands of men bear witness that this was the truth. No teacher in Harvard University within my recollection has roused so many minds or touched so many hearts. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
...Truth about Tolna," by B. Runkle...
...Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental mind. An atmosphere of mystery enshrouds the universe. The Western man seeks the truth outside himself, through researches of science. The Easterner tries to find the truth within himself by thought and meditation...
...great truth is simple. The all guiding Hand which we must feel when we look upon the vast power and beauty of nature-the "Invisible Through Nature" which all scientists and philosophers must come to regard-was the secret of the incarnation. Man has glimpses of this Being: Christ so thoroughly understood and appreciated it that it finally carried Him away...