Word: soule
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Christianity according to Christ furnishes the basis for the largest and richest culture of which men are capable - the largest and richest culture of mind, body and soul. The old religion taught that Christ's doctrine was the doctrine of the mortification of the body for the glory of God. But we know now that Christ paid great attention to the physical welfare of men. He went about healing all manner of disease among the people, and ended the parable of the Good Samaritan by commanding his disciples to go and do each for his neighbor in distress what...
...essentials of such a life are, right knowledge, right belief and right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct. The ethical code of right conduct in India has a scientific basis. The results of every act of a man's life are carefully weighed and analyzed. Immortality of the soul is a belief common to all the religions of India. The Jainist's belief is that from a spiritual standpoint the universe is eternal; from a material standpoint it is not eternal. Their maxim is: "Truth can be studied only by looking up at it from all sides...
...with but three other works of Shakespeare: Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. When considering these plays in relation to Hamlet, one point of contrast immediately presents itself. In Hamlet it is not the hero of the play who acts and keeps you in suspense. He is the one unhappy soul hurried along by the fates and he only acts when he must. In each of the other three plays the hero is the chief actor and is a man of clear and vigorous thought...
...thing to strive after is character; and of this, Christ is the true example. A man becomes a Christian for the the first time when he makes up his mind to change his soul from the very foundation and hereafter to try earnestly to become more like Christ...
...entered the Dominican order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken away from him owing to his Pantheistic views, and on his appeal to the Pope, he was excommunicated. He died about the year 1327. As a thinker...