Word: soul
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LOVE me with thy fullest soul...
Lying to the Faculty cannot injure the Faculty, for it, being a corporation, has no soul, and therefore is incapable of moral harm. It does not injure the individual, but on the contrary puts him, in the true spirit of democracy, on a level with his brothers who spread a veil before the glaring light of truth for fear of injury to their eyes. The person who tells the truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice...
...with a gentle and soul-soothing stealth...
...soul which has studied the causes of the incarnation, under the sweet reasonableness of the Entretiens of Malebranche, or has rejoiced in the prize clock-system of Leibnitz, - thus, I say, does the soul under these unhappy conditions pant for something more tangible, more solid, than the aforesaid sweet confections, the hermetically sealed thoughts of two centuries...
...soul that has been through the ingenious mazes of Cartesian Metaphysics, so ingenious that one is tempted to exclaim as he contemplates them...