Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice has been taken of the close relation of mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here he said, "There will be much I say which cannot be demonstrated. However, I do think that thought can be proved as the product of the brain, which is the seat of thought. There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always...
...then took the case of insanity as showing the connection between soul and body. Insanity is said to be "the soul made irrational, but," said he, "I doubt if it can be shown that the soul is ever irrational. The soul acts within from outside reports." The soul may be separated from the body as in the case of clairvoyants, and it may see independently of the eyes, but any real separation cannot be proved. He went on to say "the more a man's spiritual development is attained, the higher he sees his ideal above him. So with Christ...
...Luther himself seeing the confusion he had wrought among them, and terrified at the consequences of the doctrine of the Anabaptists and others, who claimed like himself to have cast aside all authority and to teach from divine inspiration, began to doubt his own position. The agony of his soul's struggle we can but faintly understand. At the end of it he was no longer the champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There...
...ambition were two faults especially to be avoided by students in a large university, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that each student could live the life which looks to noble men for approbation. After the address the Glee club sang Shelley's "Hark, hark my soul," and the benediction was pronounced. The musical features of this service were especially noteworthy...
...most important of all the tendencies of modern theological thought is that it unifies God and humanity. God, who is immanent in natural forces, is also immanent in the human soul. Religion is not something apart from man; rather it is indissolubly associated with his whole being. It is right living-the life of God in the soul...