The book A Glance At Philosophy Mental Moral And Social was written by author Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 Here you can read free online of A Glance At Philosophy Mental Moral And Social book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Glance At Philosophy Mental Moral And Social a good or bad book?
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their sons ? Ought they not to teach them that we are as truly bound to be honest and true in dealing with the country as with our fellow-men? Ought they not to warn them against the infamous maxim, current with some people, that " all is fair in poli- tics?" OF MAN'S DUTIES TOWARD GOD. Of all the rela- tions which the human mind sustains, that Avhich sub- sists between the Creator and his creatures, the Supreme law-giver and his subjects, is the highest and most interesting. This relation aris...es from the nature of a creature in general, and the constitution of the human mind in particular, the noblest powers and affections of which point to an Universal Mind, and would be imperfect and abortive without such a direction. The mind, in its progress from object to object, from one character and prospect of beauty to another, finds some blemish or deficiency in each, and soon exhausts or grows weary and dissatisfied with its subject. It sees no character of excellency among men equal to that pitch of esteem which it is capable of exerting, no object within the compass of human things ade- quate to the strength of its affections ; nor can it stay anywhere in this self-expansive progress, or find repose after its highest flights, till it arrives at a Being of unbounded greatness and worth, on whom it may employ its sublimest powers without exhausting the subject, and give scope to the utmost force and fulness of its love.
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