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A. R. Wallace absolutely affirm animal assured atoms Balfour Stewart become believe bioplasts blessed bodily body brain brought capacity centuries chemical Christ clairvoyance companionship conception creative curtains death develop direct disciples discovered divine doubting Thomas earth embodiment environment Epes Sargent eternal ether evolution existence eyes fact faith finally geologic eons germ gifted God's hand heart human soul infinite influence instinct intimate Joseph Cook law of spiritual lifted light living luminiferous ether marvelous matter ment mental microscope mind mysterious nature Nature's never obedience organs pass perfect personal presence phenomena planet pollen basket possible prayer present Prof prophecy protoplasm purpose reach reason revealed scientific scientists seemingly sense simply soul sovereignty spirit sun clusters sympathy telepathy thought thought-life tion touch uncurtaining unfolding universe uplifting vast vision vital forces voices of prophecy wholly William Crookes
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Page 289 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 223 - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all...
Page 188 - I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.
Page 267 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 236 - There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Page 289 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 289 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 235 - In the light, I have seen a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope on a side table, break a sprig off, and carry the sprig to a lady ; and on some occasions I have seen a similar luminous cloud visibly condense to the form of a hand and carry small objects about.
Page 142 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 160 - Lest she should fail and perish utterly, God, before whom ever lie bare The abysmal deeps of Personality, Plagued her with sore despair. When she would think, where'er she turn'd her sight The airy hand confusion wrought, Wrote, 'Mene, mene,' and divided quite The kingdom of her thought.