Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Such spiritual motives generally lacking in ordinary methods of poor relief.- (1) The Poor Law Guardian is mostly a dispenser of material help-money, food, shelter, etc.- (c) The spiritual incentives to better lives are given by the Salvation Army.- (1) They feed not only the body but the soul...
...root of Buddhism, said Professor Lanman, is popular pessimism. The early Hindoos however, were not pessimists. It is only the later Hindoos who believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...
...these orders there were four periods; that of the religious student; the householder; the forest hermit; and the wandering beggar. Of these orders the most important were the dualistic Sankhya philosophy, and the monistic, pantheistic Vedanta which recognized one supreme being in the universe of which every man's soul is not a part, but the being itself. All these teachings had the one practical purpose of securing emancipation from the sorrows of life...
...choir rendered the following selections: "O Lord Our Governor," J. L. Hopkins; "Let Every Soul be Subject Unto the Highest Power," J. Stainer; "Shew Me Thy Ways, O Lord," J. Varten. Powers. Garfield Stone, of the choir, sang solos in the first two selections, and a tenor solo in the last was rendered by Mr. P. F. Webber, of the Temple Quartette of Boston...
Plato's idea of the Deity was far more metaphysical than religious: his God was an Eternal Essence. He believed the first attribute of the soul to be that by which men and beings are endowed with life. But he also considered that the soul had a purely irrational part which cannot think...