Word: soule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Christ is a historical fact, an ethical fact, and a spiritual fact in the soul of man. Christ must be within to be realized, must be external to be real. Moral power presupposes Christ within attesting Christ without...
These periods of the soul--the periods of fact, knowledge and faith--are bound, together by duty, a motive higher than pleasure, convenience or ambition; a motive which exacts only sacrifice...
...story of the man born blind, in which the next appears, shows, Bishop Carpenter said, the evolution of a human soul. First comes the outside influence, the moment when we see that life is a far more transcendent thing than we have supposed...
Then follows the third period in the evolution of the soul. As in the story the blind man was cast out by his friends for his adherence to convictions, so we may perchance become outcasts. But the moments of loneliness thus gained are the moments of illumination. Then come the visions of the soul, and God stands near to us. It is better to be with God in the wilderness than to be with the plaudits of men in the market place...
...Beethoven overture we have a most striking contrast, for here the descriptive suggestion is not of the elements of the outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...