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Again we often make the mistake of separating religion from the rest of life, and setting it outside the realm of law. By treating religion as though it had no connection with fact and history, the whole question is often made shadowy and uninteresting...
...does from one who has had ample experience to learn and judge of what he writes, should be of unusual interest to those undergraduates who are contemplating journalism as a profession. Littell does not hesitate to say that journalism is not "hospitable," and that it is not the realm of the pioneer or the originator, but he does insist that by certain forms of practice, the undergraduate may fit himself the better to cope with the difficulties which will beset him in his first necessary duties...
...work lay in the knowledge of the unity of the life on earth and the life after death. Heaven with Dante was not a place of arbitrary reward, nor Hell a place of arbitrary punishment. They were self-determined conditions of the soul of man. He extended the realm of nature into the unseen universe. The Divine Comedy was not intended merely to alarm the sinner by the picture of Hell's horrors, nor to confirm the good by the picture of Heaven's delights. It was intended simply to instruct, to warn, and to guide man. Brevity of utterance...
...order to have a devil, however, there must be a sharp distinction between good and evil. The evil one is always thought of as opposed to the good, and his realm is one of selfishness as opposed to the divine realm of love...
...rebirth. The Buddhist taught that the eradication of all evil desires and the purification of the soul was the one fundamental aim of religion. As to the question as to whether the Buddha existed after the death, they refused to answer it. They believed in the existence of a realm beyond that of the phenomenal, the unborn, but the relation of the Buddha and the saints to this realm is left undefined...