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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the great, and Memnon the beautiful, to the solitary pilgrim, whose presence now violated the sanctity of their gorgeous sepulchres. And I found that the history of my race was but one tale of rapid destruction or gradual decay. And in the anguish of my heart, I lifted up my hands to the blueaether, and I said, Is there no hope What is knowledge, and what is Truth? How shall I gain Wisdom? The wind arose, the bosom of the Desert heaved, pillars of sand sprang from the earth and whirled across the plain; sounds more awful than thunder came rushing from the south; the fane and the palace, the portal and the obelisk, the altar and the throne, the picture and the frieze, disappeared from my sight, and Darkness brooded over the land. I knelt down and hid my face in the moveable and burning soil, and, as the wind of the Desert passed / over me, methought it whispered, Child of Nature, learn to unlearn We are the slaves of false knowledge. Our memories are Oiled with ideas, that have no origin in Truth. We learn nothing from ourselves. The sum of our experience is but a dim dream of the conduct of past generations, generations that lived in a total ignorance of their nature. Our instructors are the unknowing and the dead. We study human nature in a charnel-house, and, like the nations of the East, we pay divine honours to the maniac and the fool. A series of systems have mystified existence. We believe what our fathers credited, because they were convinced without a cause. The faculty of Thought has been destroyed. Yet our emasculated minds, without the power of fruition, still pant for the charms of wisdom. It is this that makes us lly with rapture to False Knowledge ? to Tradition, to Prejudice, to Custom. Delusive Tradition, destructive Prejudice, degenerating Custom ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217196604 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217196608 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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