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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: III. THE GROWTH OF LAW Few persons, it is presumed, have failed to observe, that there are two great stages in the matters of human life and experience, one of which is always preparing and merging itself in the other. It is so, not simply in the sense of an apostle, when he says?first that which is natural, afterward that which is spiritual; but, without going out of the world, or over to the resurrection, for the matter of the contrast, we may say universally? what is physical first, what is moral afterwards. The child begins his career as a creature of muscles and integuments, a physical being endued with sensation. Whole years are expended in making acquaintance with the body he lives in. By acting in and through this organ, he discovers himself, begins to be a thinking and reflective creature, and finally flowers into some kind of character. The world itself is first a lump of dull earth, a mere physical thing seen by the five senses. The animals that graze on it, see it as we do But thought, a littlefarther on, begins to work upon it and bring out its laws. The heights are ascended, the depths explored, and every star and atom is found to be so congener to thought, that mind can think out and assign its laws. The whole field of being, thus brought into science, takes an attribute of intelligence and reflects a Universal Mind. Every object of knowledge and experience, too, discovers moral ends and uses, and assumes a visible relation to our spiritual training. Now the old physical orb on which our five senses grazed is gone, we can not find it. All objects are become mental objects, and matter itself is moral. Delivered as an Oration before the Society of Alumni, in Yalo College, Aug. 16, A. D. 1843. If we speak of language, this, as every scholar knows, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217656955 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217656951 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $20.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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