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...Religiosos (To the Religious-i. e., monks, nuns): "We now speak to you, sons and daughters of our love, who, eager for the nobler graces, by the pledge of your holiest vows and by a lifelong religious discipline, faithfully obey, not merely the commandments, but also the desires and the counsels of your Divine King and Spouse. You fill God's Church with the fragrance of your chastity, you glorify her by your contemplations, you support her by your prayers, you enrich her with your learning and knowledge, you beautify and perfect her from...
...printed a book that defies being cast into any of the ordinary categories of recently published books. It is a book about a religious subject, but it is not a religious book. Some might call it a mystery story, but it it written about a much nobler subject than the common mystery-murder story. It is a story about that which happened immediately following the death of Christ, written from a modern psychological viewpoint, and having elements of suspense injected into it. It stands alone among recent books...
...While the imperial Deity, seated on a throne and demanding worship and flattery is a myth, the Super-Self of our own nobler nature, the Hidden Dynamo within mankind, can and does lead man from primitive society to the State, to the Democracy, and on to that which does not yet appear...
...trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat...
...muzzle and the voice of a lion." A cold-water-bather, long-walker, sound-sleeper, lover of wine and fish. He needed women but liked them guardedly. Said he of them: "If I had been willing thus to sacrifice my vital force, what would have remained for the nobler, the better thing?" His heredity predisposed him to tuberculosis and alcoholism while enteritis, syphilis, weak eyes were potential added maladies. His deafness, believes Author Rolland, was due to overworked ears. Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver. He scorned the feeble, ignorant, baseborn, wellborn, and those who loved him. His most...