The Divine Challenge
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152884854
Paperback|9781152884854
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... utmost majesty of matter in comparison with the magnificence of that spirit which gives to a man wisdom and understanding? We feel the Alps that tower above the St. Gothard to be great, but it is only in the sense of magnitude; when we see the engine man has fashioned slowly climbing up the mountain side, impelled by a mere handful of fire within its iron entrails; when we see it vanish in the bowels of the earth, and presently come forth again, having threaded with resistless energy and in complete triumph and security, the very roots of the everlasting hills--then we feel that we are in the presence of quite another sort of greatness--a greatness not of magnitude but of power. And as a matter of plainest fact the physical universe has no greatness except as it exists in the human mind. Pascal put the truth long since when he said, If the universe were to fall and crush me, I should be greater than the universe, for I should be conscious of defeat, and it would be unconscious of victory. It is easy enough I grant to feel our insignificance as compared with nature, but the feeling is irrational, and quite illusory. Do not be misled by what poets have to say on such a theme. Do not mistake their expression of a natural emotion for the statement of a fact. God is great, and man is great, but elsewhere there is no greatness--and it is the authentic miracle and dignity of man as a creature truly God-like that we most need to learn if we are to live in such a way as to work out any deliverance upon the earth. We may find reason to doubt the greatness of man, again, when we compare the total action of man with his aspiration. The aspiration is magnificent, but what of its fruit? Who attains a tenth part of that which he desires to...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152884854 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152884859 |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 94 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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