 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would...power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
 | Prem Nath - 1987 - 440 pages
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To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over... 
