It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to... Miscellanies - Seite 342von Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 402 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1830 - 986 Seiten
...people; and that such different modes of thinking should be busied over this same book, has indefinitely advanced the human understanding. " The understanding...man, however his understanding feels convinced of a continually better futurity, will still not be necessitated to draw motives of conduct from this... | |
| Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr - 1866 - 456 Seiten
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination, and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." Hear it, O materialistic age, that recognizcst and prizest only those investigations which are directed... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1876 - 368 Seiten
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of .heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81 OR, is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity... | |
| James Sime - 1877 - 394 Seiten
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained... | |
| James Sime - 1896 - 388 Seiten
...exercised on spiritual subjects if it is to attain its full enlightenment, and to produce that purification of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake." ! But this process of education cannot go on for ever ; it must have an end. " What is trained is trained... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 460 Seiten
...exercised on intellectual objects, if it is to attain its full illumination and produce that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake. 81. Or shall the human race never attain this highest degree of enlightenment and purity ? Never ?... | |
| Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 Seiten
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity?—... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1991 - 378 Seiten
...exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity?... | |
| Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 Seiten
...practiced "on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone" (§80). Any attempt to transcend divisions by enforcing a universal unity would end in refragmentation... | |
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