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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to…
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not…
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Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.
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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is…
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that…
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Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the…
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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to…
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On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its…
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