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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. find it in certain parts of Oceania. Among some, the religious sentiment de-generated into the shameful scenes of butchery which form the character ofthe ancient religion of Mexico. Amongst others, especially in Africa, it be-came pure Fetichism, that is, the adoration of a material object, to whichwere attributed supernatural powers. Like the instinct of love, which attimes elevates the most vulgar man above himself, yet sometimes becomesperverted and ferocious, so this divine faculty of religion during a long pe-riod seems only to be a cancer which must be extirpated from the humanrace, a cause of errors and crimes which the wise ought to endeavor to sup-press.The brilliant civilizations which were developed from a very remote antiq-uity in China, in Babylonia, and in Egypt, caused a certain progress to bemade in religion. China arrived very early at a sort of mediocre good sense, which prevented great extravagances. She neither knew the advantages northe abuses of the religious spirit. At all events, she had not in this way anyinfluence in directing the great current of humanity. The religions of Baby-lonia and Syria were never freed from a substratum of strange sensuality;these religions remained, until their extinction in the fourth and fifth cen-turies of our era, schools of immorality, in which at intervals glimpses of thedivine world were obtained by a sort of poetic intuition. Egypt, notwith-standing an apparent kind of Fetichism, had very early metaphysical dogmasand a lofty symbolism. But doubtless these interpretations of a refined the-ology were not primitive. Man has never, in the possession of a clear idea, amused himself by clothing it in symbols: it is oftener after long reflections, and from the impossibility felt by the human mind of resigning itself to theabsurd, that we seek ideas under the ancient mystic images whose meaningis lost. Moreover, it is not from Egypt that the faith of humanity has come.The elements which, in the religion of a Christian, passing through a thou-sand transformations, came from Egypt and Syria, are exterior forms of lit-tle consequence, or dross of which the most purified worships always retainsome portion. The grand defect of the religions of which we speak was their4 ERNEST RENANessentially superstitious character. They only threw into the world millionsof amulets and charms. No great moral thought could proceed from racesoppressed by a secular despotism, and accustomed to institutions which pre-cluded the exercise of individual liberty.The poetry of the soul-faith, liberty, virtue, devotion-made their appear-ance in the world with the two great races which, in one sense, have madehumanity, viz., the Indo-European and the Semitic races. The first religiousintuitions of the Indo-European race were essentially naturalistic. But it wasa profound and moral naturalism, a loving embrace of Nature by man, a de-licious poetry, full of the sentiment of the Infinite-the principle, in fine, ofall that which the Germanic and Celtic genius, of that which a Shakespeareand a Goethe should express in later times. It was neither theology nor moralphilosophy-it was a state of melancholy, it was tenderness, it was imagina-tion; it was, more than all, earnestness, the essential condition of morals and This profound exploration traces the evolution of human spirituality, tracing the journey from primitive superstitions and Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. ove, according to the unanimous opinion of the wise men who discourseof him, and as by experience we see continually, is that which brings to-gether and unites the lover with the beloved; wherefore Pythagoras says, "Infriendship many become one."And the things which are united naturally communicate their qualities toeach other, insomuch that sometimes it happens that one is wholly changedinto the nature of the other, the result being that the passions of the belovedperson enter into the person of the lover, so that the love of the one is com-municated to the other, and so likewise hatred, desire, and every other pas-sion; wherefore the friends of the one are beloved by the other, and the en-emies hated; and so in the Greek proverb it is said: "With friends all thingsought to be in common."Wherefore I, having made a friend of this Lady, mentioned above in thetruthful exposition, began to love and to hate according to her love and herhatred. I then began to love the followers of Truth, and to hate the follow-ers of Error and Falsehood, even as she does. But since each thing is to beloved for itself and none are to be hated except for excess of evil, it is rea-sonable and upright to hate not the things, but the evil in the things, and toendeavour to distinguish between these. And if any person has this inten-tion, my most excellent Lady understands especially how to distinguish theevil in anything, which is the cause of hate; since in her is all Reason, and inher is the fountain-head of all uprightness.I, following her as much as I could in her work as in her love, abominatedand despised the errors of the people with infamy or reproach, not cast onthose lost in error, but on the errors themselves; by blamingwhich, I thoughtto create displeasure and to separate the displeased ones from those faultsin them which were hated by me. Amongst which errors one especially Ireproved, which, because it is hurtful and dangerous not only to those whoremain in it, but also to others who reprove it, I separate it from them andcondemn.This is the error concerning Human Goodness, which, inasmuch as it issown in us by Nature, ought to be termed Nobility; which error was sostrongly entrenched by evil custom and by weak intellect that the opinionof almost all people was falsified or deceived by it; and from the false opin-ion sprang false judgments, and from false judgments sprang unjust rever-ence and unjust contempt; wherefore the good were held in vile disdain, andthe evil were honoured and exalted. This was the worst confusion in theworld; even as he can see who looks subtly at that which may result from it.And though it seemed that this my Lady had somewhat changed her sweetcountenance towards me, especially where I gazed and sought to discoverwhether the first Matter of the Elements was created by God, for which rea-son I strengthened myself to frequent her presence a little, as if remainingthere with her assent, I began to consider in my mind the fault of man con-cerning the said error. And to shun sloth, which is an especial enemy of thisLady, and to describe or state this error very clearly, this error which robs herof so many friends, I proposed to cry aloud to the people who are walking inthe path of evil, in order that they might direct their steps to the right road;and I began a Song, in the beginning of which I said, "Soft rhymes of love Iused to find," wherein I intend to lead the people back into the right Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. ove, according to the unanimous opinion of the wise men who discourseof him, and as by experience we see continually, is that which brings to-gether and unites the lover with the beloved; wherefore Pythagoras says, "Infriendship many become one."And the things which are united naturally communicate their qualities toeach other, insomuch that sometimes it happens that one is wholly changedinto the nature of the other, the result being that the passions of the belovedperson enter into the person of the lover, so that the love of the one is com-municated to the other, and so likewise hatred, desire, and every other pas-sion; wherefore the friends of the one are beloved by the other, and the en-emies hated; and so in the Greek proverb it is said: "With friends all thingsought to be in common."Wherefore I, having made a friend of this Lady, mentioned above in thetruthful exposition, began to love and to hate according to her love and herhatred. I then began to love the followers of Truth, and to hate the follow-ers of Error and Falsehood, even as she does. But since each thing is to beloved for itself and none are to be hated except for excess of evil, it is rea-sonable and upright to hate not the things, but the evil in the things, and toendeavour to distinguish between these. And if any person has this inten-tion, my most excellent Lady understands especially how to distinguish theevil in anything, which is the cause of hate; since in her is all Reason, and inher is the fountain-head of all uprightness.I, following her as much as I could in her work as in her love, abominatedand despised the errors of the people with infamy or reproach, not cast onthose lost in error, but on the errors themselves; by blamingwhich, I thoughtto create displeasure and to separate the displeased ones from those faultsin them which were hated by me. Amongst which errors one especially Ireproved, which, because it is hurtful and dangerous not only to those whoremain in it, but also to others who reprove it, I separate it from them andcondemn.This is the error concerning Human Goodness, which, inasmuch as it issown in us by Nature, ought to be termed Nobility; which error was sostrongly entrenched by evil custom and by weak intellect that the opinionof almost all people was falsified or deceived by it; and from the false opin-ion sprang false judgments, and from false judgments sprang unjust rever-ence and unjust contempt; wherefore the good were held in vile disdain, andthe evil were honoured and exalted. This was the worst confusion in theworld; even as he can see who looks subtly at that which may result from it.And though it seemed that this my Lady had somewhat changed her sweetcountenance towards me, especially where I gazed and sought to discoverwhether the first Matter of the Elements was created by God, for which rea-son I strengthened myself to frequent her presence a little, as if remainingthere with her assent, I began to consider in my mind the fault of man con-cerning the said error. And to shun sloth, which is an especial enemy of thisLady, and to describe or state this error very clearly, this error which robs herof so many friends, I proposed to cry aloud to the people who are walking inthe path of evil, in order that they might direct their steps to the right road;and I began a Song, in the beginning of which I said, "Soft rhymes of love Iused to find," wherein I intend to lead the people back into the right Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. find it in certain parts of Oceania. Among some, the religious sentiment de-generated into the shameful scenes of butchery which form the character ofthe ancient religion of Mexico. Amongst others, especially in Africa, it be-came pure Fetichism, that is, the adoration of a material object, to whichwere attributed supernatural powers. Like the instinct of love, which attimes elevates the most vulgar man above himself, yet sometimes becomesperverted and ferocious, so this divine faculty of religion during a long pe-riod seems only to be a cancer which must be extirpated from the humanrace, a cause of errors and crimes which the wise ought to endeavor to sup-press.The brilliant civilizations which were developed from a very remote antiq-uity in China, in Babylonia, and in Egypt, caused a certain progress to bemade in religion. China arrived very early at a sort of mediocre good sense, which prevented great extravagances. She neither knew the advantages northe abuses of the religious spirit. At all events, she had not in this way anyinfluence in directing the great current of humanity. The religions of Baby-lonia and Syria were never freed from a substratum of strange sensuality;these religions remained, until their extinction in the fourth and fifth cen-turies of our era, schools of immorality, in which at intervals glimpses of thedivine world were obtained by a sort of poetic intuition. Egypt, notwith-standing an apparent kind of Fetichism, had very early metaphysical dogmasand a lofty symbolism. But doubtless these interpretations of a refined the-ology were not primitive. Man has never, in the possession of a clear idea, amused himself by clothing it in symbols: it is oftener after long reflections, and from the impossibility felt by the human mind of resigning itself to theabsurd, that we seek ideas under the ancient mystic images whose meaningis lost. Moreover, it is not from Egypt that the faith of humanity has come.The elements which, in the religion of a Christian, passing through a thou-sand transformations, came from Egypt and Syria, are exterior forms of lit-tle consequence, or dross of which the most purified worships always retainsome portion. The grand defect of the religions of which we speak was their4 ERNEST RENANessentially superstitious character. They only threw into the world millionsof amulets and charms. No great moral thought could proceed from racesoppressed by a secular despotism, and accustomed to institutions which pre-cluded the exercise of individual liberty.The poetry of the soul-faith, liberty, virtue, devotion-made their appear-ance in the world with the two great races which, in one sense, have madehumanity, viz., the Indo-European and the Semitic races. The first religiousintuitions of the Indo-European race were essentially naturalistic. But it wasa profound and moral naturalism, a loving embrace of Nature by man, a de-licious poetry, full of the sentiment of the Infinite-the principle, in fine, ofall that which the Germanic and Celtic genius, of that which a Shakespeareand a Goethe should express in later times. It was neither theology nor moralphilosophy-it was a state of melancholy, it was tenderness, it was imagina-tion; it was, more than all, earnestness, the essential condition of morals and This profound exploration traces the evolution of human spirituality, tracing the journey from primitive super Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. find it in certain parts of Oceania. Among some, the religious sentiment de-generated into the shameful scenes of butchery which form the character ofthe ancient religion of Mexico. Amongst others, especially in Africa, it be-came pure Fetichism, that is, the adoration of a material object, to whichwere attributed supernatural powers. Like the instinct of love, which attimes elevates the most vulgar man above himself, yet sometimes becomesperverted and ferocious, so this divine faculty of religion during a long pe-riod seems only to be a cancer which must be extirpated from the humanrace, a cause of errors and crimes which the wise ought to endeavor to sup-press.The brilliant civilizations which were developed from a very remote antiq-uity in China, in Babylonia, and in Egypt, caused a certain progress to bemade in religion. China arrived very early at a sort of mediocre good sense, which prevented great extravagances. She neither knew the advantages northe abuses of the religious spirit. At all events, she had not in this way anyinfluence in directing the great current of humanity. The religions of Baby-lonia and Syria were never freed from a substratum of strange sensuality;these religions remained, until their extinction in the fourth and fifth cen-turies of our era, schools of immorality, in which at intervals glimpses of thedivine world were obtained by a sort of poetic intuition. Egypt, notwith-standing an apparent kind of Fetichism, had very early metaphysical dogmasand a lofty symbolism. But doubtless these interpretations of a refined the-ology were not primitive. Man has never, in the possession of a clear idea, amused himself by clothing it in symbols: it is oftener after long reflections, and from the impossibility felt by the human mind of resigning itself to theabsurd, that we seek ideas under the ancient mystic images whose meaningis lost. Moreover, it is not from Egypt that the faith of humanity has come.The elements which, in the religion of a Christian, passing through a thou-sand transformations, came from Egypt and Syria, are exterior forms of lit-tle consequence, or dross of which the most purified worships always retainsome portion. The grand defect of the religions of which we speak was their4 ERNEST RENANessentially superstitious character. They only threw into the world millionsof amulets and charms. No great moral thought could proceed from racesoppressed by a secular despotism, and accustomed to institutions which pre-cluded the exercise of individual liberty.The poetry of the soul-faith, liberty, virtue, devotion-made their appear-ance in the world with the two great races which, in one sense, have madehumanity, viz., the Indo-European and the Semitic races. The first religiousintuitions of the Indo-European race were essentially naturalistic. But it wasa profound and moral naturalism, a loving embrace of Nature by man, a de-licious poetry, full of the sentiment of the Infinite-the principle, in fine, ofall that which the Germanic and Celtic genius, of that which a Shakespeareand a Goethe should express in later times. It was neither theology nor moralphilosophy-it was a state of melancholy, it was tenderness, it was imagina-tion; it was, more than all, earnestness, the essential condition of morals and This profound exploration traces the evolution of human spirituality, tracing the journey from primitive super Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. One wrong number. One voice. And suddenly, the man who had never believed in love found himself waiting for midnight-just to hear her breathe. He had no right to feel this, yet every word, every pause pulled him closer to the place he swore he would never go. Shivansh Desai. CEO. Stoic. Disciplined. Detached. A man of ice, armor, and silence-until her laughter melted everything he thought unshakable. Prisha Sharma. Sunshine wrapped in calm defiance. She never chased him. She never needed him. And yet, by some cruel twist of fate, she became the only place where his restless mind could rest. They never planned it. Never labeled it. But in the stolen hours of midnight calls, they became each other's secret. And then. she left. No warning. No goodbye. Just absence. He shattered quietly, hiding the cracks behind power and control. Years passed, empires rose, but nothing filled the hollow she left. Until fate returned her. Same face. Same voice. Different world. Her eyes carried guilt, her lips trembled with unspoken longing. And deep inside, she admitted- "I left. but my heart never stopped following you." He felt it too-the pull, the ache, the fury. "You vanished like I was nothing. I should hate you. but how do I stop craving the very thing that ruined me?" Two hearts, scarred by silence, bound by a love that never died. Maybe this time, love would be enough. Maybe fate would finally keep what it once stole. A chance connection via a midnight phone call ignites a passion that leaves a stoic tycoon shattered when his muse vanishes. Years later, fate reunites them, forcing two wounded souls to decide if their fractured bond can finally heal. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. THE ZODIACTo the ordinary astrologer the Zodiac is simply a band of space, eighteendegrees wide, in the heavens, the center of which marks out the pathwayof the Sun during the space of one year of 365 days, etc.The twelve signs are to him simply thirty degrees of the space (12 times 30equal 360), bearing the names of the constellations which once occupiedthem. Nay, he, as a rule, still imagines in some sense that the signs (constel-lations) are still there, and that the power and potency of the twelve signs isderived from the stars which occupy the Zodiacal band of the skies.But this is not so, as any ordinary astronomer well knows. This single fact, i.e., the gradual shifting of the constellations, the DISPLACEMENT, let ussay, of the starry influx from one sign to anotherwithout anyALLOWANCEbeing made in the astrologer's rules for any such change, has been one of thegreatest obstructions to the popular spread of the art among EDUCATEDMINDS. Argues the scientist: The "fiery influence of Aries," if dependingupon the stars of that constellation, ought now to be shedding forth theircaloric from the sign Pisces, and Aries ought to be lumbering along with the3 THOMAS H. BURGOYNE & BELLE M. WAGNERearthy Taurine nature. So, also, the lords of these signs ought to be changed, but that they are not can be proved by the fact that our earliest records ofthat dim, historic past show, equally as well as your latest "text-book," thatMars is the lord of Aries-a fiery planet in a fiery sign; but astrologers still saythat Pisces is watery and Aries fiery, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE, IF THESTARS HAVE ANY INFLUENCE AT ALL. It is not necessary," say theselogical thinkers, "to learn your abstruse science if we can demonstrate thatthe very basis upon which your conclusions rest is in every sense fundamen-tally false." The scientific facts of the case are as follows: The influence of thetwelve signs, as described by astrologers, is a delusion, because in all ages theyare reported the same; whereas WE KNOW that every 2,160 years each signretrogrades to the extent of thirty degrees, and, as your art does not makeallowance for this, it is false. For, if the influence of the twelve signs does notemanate from the stars occupying the space of those signs, it must emanatefrom nothing-a doctrine well suited, no doubt, to musty old sages of yoursuperstitious Chaldea, but quite out of court in our progressive age-the lastdecade of our cultured and scientific nineteenth century.So far, so good. And so the world rolls along its bright pathway in the heav-ens, little heeding the logical conclusions of an exact science. But to an ini-tiate of those inner principles of our planet's constitution all these mentalconflicts have a meaning and a purpose within Nature's divine economy; forit is neither wise nor expedient that the masses, with popular science in thelead, should grasp the truths which Mother Nature reserves ALONE for her Beyond the flawed logic of modern astronomy lies a hidden cosmic truth. This work explores the profound spiritual connection between the soul and the shifting celestial patterns that science fails to grasp. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. hy is it that for the purposes of English composition one word is not sogood as another? To this question we shall get a general answer if weexamine the effect of certain classes of expressions.PRESENT USE.-Let us examine first the effect produced by three passagesin the authorized version of the English Bible-a version made by order ofKing James in 1611: -"For these two years hath the famine been in the land, and yet there are fiveyears, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest" (Gen. xlv. 6)."O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how longwill ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?" (Psa. iv. 2)."Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposedto come unto you, but was let hitherto" (Rom. i. 18).See also Gen. xxv. 29; Matt. iii 8; Acts viii. 3; 1 Thess. iv. 15.An ordinary reader of our time cannot without assistance fully understandthese passages, because the words "earing," "leasing," and "let" convey tohis mind either no idea at all or a wrong idea. Two hundred and eightyyears ago, when this translation of the Bible was made, these words werecommon words with plain meanings; but "earing" and "leasing" have sincedropped out of common use, and "let" has acquired a different meaning;consequently an ordinary reader of the present time must consult a dictio-nary before he can be sure what the passages mean. Words and meaningswhich have gone out of use are called obsolete. There is not much tempta-tion to use obsolete words; but the temptation sometimes comes. Thereforewe note, as our first conclusion, that a person who wishes to be understoodmust avoid expressions and meanings which are not in present use.NATIONAL USE.-A boy from southern Pennsylvania was visiting in NewYork State. In the midst of some preparations for a fishing excursion he saidto his host, "Shall I take my gums along?" His host burst out laughing andsaid, "Of course; did you think of taking them out of your mouth and leav-ing them at home?"[2] Unconsciously the boy had used a good Englishwordin a sense peculiar to the district in which he lived; his host had understoodthe word in its proper sense.On another occasion a gentleman who had just arrived at a hotel in Ken-nebunkport, Me., agreed to a proposal to "go down to the beach in thebarge." Going to his room, he prepared for a little excursion on the riverwhich flowed by the hotel. When he returned, he was greatly surprised tofind his friends about to start for the beach in a large omnibus. Another gen-tleman once asked a young lady to go "riding" with him. At the appointedhour he drove to her house in a buggy, and she came down to meet him inher riding habit.These incidents show that if we use expressions that are only local, or usewords in local senses, we are liable either to be misunderstood or not to beunderstood at all. Obscurity also arises from the use ofwords in senseswhichare peculiar to a certain class or profession. For example, to a person who is4 HUBER GRAY BUEHLER Master the art of clear communication by uncovering how obsolete terms and regional slang can derail your message. This guide explores the subtle traps of language to ensure your voice is always understood! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…