Category: Religion/Spirituality
The principal educational controversies of the present day rage round the teaching of religion to children, but they are more concerned with the right to teach it than with what is taught, in fact none of the combatants except the Catholic body seem to have a clear notion of w...
The value set on character, even if the appreciation goes no further than words, has increased very markedly within the last few years, and in reaction against an exclusively me...
8. Chapter 8"If Chaucer, as has been said, is Spring, it is a modern, premature Spring, followed by an interval of doubtful weather. Sidney is the very Spring--the later May. And in prose h...
16. Chapter 16Yet the heavenly joys of the illuminated understanding far transcend the thrills of the glorified senses. The contemplation of heavenly beauty and of heavenly truth must indeed...
1. Chapter 1The principal educational controversies of the present day rage round the teaching of religion to children, but they are more concerned with the right to teach it than with what...
6. Chapter 6"Born of full stature, lineal to control; And yet a pigmy's yoke must undergo. Yet must keep pace and tarry, patient, kind, With its unwilling scholar, the dull, tardy mind; Mus...
5. Chapter 5"He fixed thee mid this dance Of plastic circumstance, This Present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest: Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee...
10. Chapter 10"We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, 'The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.'"--Psalm XLIII.
11. Chapter 11"Give honour unto Luke Evangelist: For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Scarcely at once she dared to rend the mist Of devious s...
12. Chapter 12The late Queen Victoria had a profound sense of the importance of manners and of certain conventionalities, and the singular gift of common sense, which stood for so much in her...
4. Chapter 4"E quosto ti sia sempre piombo ai piedi, Per farti mover lento, com' uom lasso, Ed al si ed al no, che tu non vedi; Che quegli e tra gli stolti bene abbasso, Che senza disfcinzi...
3. Chapter 3"The Parts and Signes of Goodnesse are many. If a Man be Gracious and Curteous to Strangers, it shewes he is a Citizen of the World, And that his Heart is no Island cut off from...
13. Chapter 13"In die Erd' isi's aufgenommen, Glucklich ist die Form gefullt; Wird's auch schon zu Tage kommen, Dass es Fleiss und Kunst vergilt? Wenn der Guss misslang? Wenn die Form zerspra...
9. Chapter 9"All nations have their message from on high, Each the messiah of some central thought, For the fulfilment and delight of Man: One has to teach that Labour is divine; Another Fr...
7. Chapter 7"The Arab told me that the stone (To give it in the language of the dream) Was "Euclid's Elements"; and "This," said he, "Is something of more worth"; and at the word Stretched...
14. Chapter 14"Far out the strange ships go: Their broad sails flashing red As flame, or white as snow: The ships, as David said. 'Winds rush and waters roll: Their strength, their beauty, br...
15. Chapter 15Let us put aside the curtain of vindicative fire, and see what this pain of loss is like; I say, what it is like, for it fortunately surpasses human imagination to conceive its...