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...infrequently the spiritual overflow is lacking. A man may have come of the noblest Puritan stock and have inherited the spiritual vigor of a long line of good men, but unless he is careful of his inheritance he will lose it. If his profession or business leaves him no time for spiritual development he grows weak and perhaps falls before temptations that would have been powerless, had he kept the health and strength that were his birthright. A man will gain the power to pass unharmed through temptation if he will put himself in communion with great men and deeds...
...achievements, he cannot but remark how each man is compelled to follow one line of business or profession and so keep on in a narrow channel. Now this is the very idea that we must dismiss from our minds and it is the very principle that will mar the noblest minds. No such opinion prevails in a true university. "For if a university stands for anything it stands for the development of the full man, of large character and with sympathies bound up with an intense interest in his own peculiar line of work." And this is what called...
Epictetus flourished shortly after St. Paul and we find him the noblest representative of Cynicism...
...Some men build up the character of God as a florist puts together a bouquet of flowers. Just as the florist chooses the flowers that produce the best effect, and in this way makes out of nature something more beautiful than nature, so do these men picking out the noblest of human qualities form a character which they ascribe to God. This is the worst kind of atheism...
...come to their best development only in the highest fields of life; that from those highest fields they are, in the lives of many men, excluded, and so are limited to lower operations, where they can not put forth their full strength; that in the lives of noblest men, and in the noblest moments of all lives, the human powers have been sent forth freely into the highest regions of their exercise and there have manifested their essential glory; that the completed life of any man or of the world can only come when all these higher regions shall...