Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jesus justified himself for healing the lame man on the Sabbath. He had a flash of insight into the purpose of God, and understood that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. But His words have a larger significance than this. They show how deeply conscious Jesus was of God's working everywhere in the world, and how this consciousness was His inspiration, and may be ours. We all wish to help humanity, but are in doubt as to this proper method. The development of better persons is the real end to be sought, and this...
...religious experience of a man is described. The mental processes in this experience are typical and contain lessons for us. The question of Christ, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" comes to the man unexpectedly, and so it does to all of us. But we are all conscious of the incompleteness, the fragmentary character of our life, and there is an underlying conviction that there is something which will unify the fragments and make our lives complete. With this question comes a dawning consciousness that it is faith in Christ which will accomplish this. In his answer...
...later period Shakspere was drawn away from the beautiful boy by a new passion which roused the baser part of his nature. Conscious of his own degradation, he realized that, to attain a true immortality, life must be identified with conditions superior to mortality. Of the various kinds of immortality mentioned by the poet only the one which he thought most doubtful, namely his own reputation, still endures. We have no evidence that his friend had a son, and the sonnets have not preserved for us his name or even his appearance. The words "Time will come and take...
...other. If every man would take the little trouble required to replace a book, all the users of the reading room would be naturally benefited. This will never come about till the sentiment among the readers is strong enough to make anyone who is careless about returning books conscious of the displeasure of the rest...
...reply is very long and partly philosophical. Its essence is as follows: "A newspaper approaches the ideal, then, in proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth...