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“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.”

Should Firsts Heart Persons Doe Earth Heaven Felt Imagination Christianity Mankind Serious Relation Doctrine Incarnation Serious Person

Author:James Anthony Froude

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”

“Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.”

Hate Mankind Relation Neglect Torment Scorn Reconciliation Vexation

Book:Discourses on Human Life

Source: Discourses on Human Life

“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”

World Giving May Children Time Kindness Mankind Relation Praise Our Children Worthy Riches Our Time Reserves Prey Acts Of Kindness Bounty

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.”

Ifs States Christ Cases Mankind Disease Direct Relation Salvation Ruins Remedy

Book:Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

Source: Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended

“Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.”

Source: The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”

Men Study Mankind Relation Deities

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)