The Pilgrim And the Shrine; Or Passages From the Life And Correspondence of Herert Ainslie 2
The book The Pilgrim And the Shrine; Or Passages From the Life And Correspondence of Herert Ainslie 2 was written by author Maitland, Edward, 1824-1897 Here you can read free online of The Pilgrim And the Shrine; Or Passages From the Life And Correspondence of Herert Ainslie 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Pilgrim And the Shrine; Or Passages From the Life And Correspondence of Herert Ainslie 2 a good or bad book?
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The same spirit of asceticism that has led Pagans and Christians alike to despise the body vitiates all modern the- ology. People christen things ^ material ' and ^ animal,' and forthwith detach from them all love and reverence, forgetting that to true love nothing is common or unclean. 206 THE PILGRIM AND THE SHRINE. They are kindred absurdities, tlie tiying to imagine man prior to, or independent of, his organic body, and Deity apart from the universe. Yet is not this the usual mode of thinki...ng ? It is a magnificent book which you last sent me, — Spencer's ^Social Statics/ He is indeed the Euclid of ethics. It will be of great use to me in my endeavour to recom- mend a simpler state of things in our colonial system. One sentence epitomizes all I have been long thinking on these subjects. ^ Mor- ality is essentially one with physical truth. It is a kind of transcendental physiology.' The highest morality and happiness springs from the strictest fulfilment of the physical laws of our being, one of the most import- ant of which is sympathy.
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