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“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”

Men Children Body Spiritual Spirit Mother Grows Journey Creation Divine Intelligent Mysterious Beloved Loved Ones Morrow Spiritual Journey

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Play Age Form Spirit Audience Quiet Intelligent Active Backgrounds Portraits Respectable Neat

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.”

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.”

Humans Spirit Demand Intelligent Responsible Surrender Reasonable Human Spirit Being Responsible

Book:Method in Theology

Source: Method in Theology

“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.”

“Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.”

Way Wells Kind God Body Past Spirit Fine Intelligent Species Dare Contradiction Almighty Doubted Apprehension Omnipotence

Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition