Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...denied this unity. Religious philosophy has been dualistic, and so we have what are called science and religion, and the conflict between them. There has been certain ground for this division because we arrive at our knowledge by two processes-knowledge of outward things coming from observation; knowledge of inward things from personal consciousness or experience. Philosophy has sometimes endeavored to establish unity by denying one or the other of these processes; thus we have idealism and materialism. What modern thought is endeaving to do is to establish a unity of all, material and immaterial...
...than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit of the Greeks and our sentiments are mostly confined to christianity. As scholars have realized this they have turned to the work of the ancients and tried to bring the Greek spirit before us in innumerable books. The Archaeological...
...wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew a clear distinction between inward anger and unlawful anger. Christ was never guilty of the latter. His anger was never personal, never revengeful, but it was a reflex of the highest zeal for truth and holiness, a feeling of abhorrence for sin itself, not for the weak ones upon whom sin had fastened...
...would not wish to take part in his soul's redemption? People who have turned from bad to good are often haunted by their evil thoughts and feelings of old. This is because their bodies are mere dumb creatures which do the tricks taught them. If we purify our inward souls our bodies will tend to form themselves accordingly...
...surrounding it were a source of annoyance and even great trouble to the boxers, who were continually tripping and falling over the feet of the spectators. It would be a good plan to encircle the ring with a rope, or perhaps a fence of empty benches placed with backs inward...