 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...the town. It was crawling furtively under the grass, like a timid thought or a dawning talent. Vlth June 1852. — Every despotism has a specially keen...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man ! the true man, the ideal man ! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...false. And there is a religious and political materialism which spoils all that it touches,—liberty, equality, individuality. So that there are two ways...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man! the true man, the ideal man! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...false. And there is a religious and political materialism which spoils all that it touches,—liberty, equality, individuality. So that there are two ways...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man! the true man, the ideal man! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...false. And there is a religious and political materialism which spoils all that it touches,—liberty, equality, individuality. So that there are two ways...democracy. . . . What is threatened to-day is moral b'berty, conscience, respect for the soul, the very nobility of man. To defend the soul, its interests,... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1886 - 592 pages
...substitute the laws of matter (number, mass) for the laws of the moral nature (persuasion, adhesion, faith). What is threatened to-day is moral liberty, — conscience,...defend the soul, its interests, its rights, its dignity " (one thinks of Chatmiug, with his constant insistence upon "the essential dignity and greatness of... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...towards the town. It was crawling furtively under the grass, like a timid thought or a dawning talent. June 1852. — Every despotism has a specially keen...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man ! the true man, the ideal man ! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...the one or of the masses. To crush what is spiritual, moral, human- — so to speak — in man, l,y specialising him ; to form mere wheels of the great...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man ! the true man, the ideal man ! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1890 - 378 pages
...liberty, equality, I individuality. So that there are two ways of understanding Ldemocracy. . . . f What is threatened to-day is moral liberty, conscience,...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man ! the true man, the ideal man ! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1891 - 374 pages
...keeps up human dignity and independence. And it is curious to see scientific and realist teaching ased everywhere as a means of stifling all freedom of investigation...the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man ! the true man, the ideal man ! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry.... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1892 - 1032 pages
...expulsive powers in the individual and in society. The lawless force wages perpetual war against God, " moral liberty, conscience, respect for the soul, the very nobility of man," all which is doomed to destruction when God is refused his right to supremacy over the soul. There... | |
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What is threatened to-day is moral liberty, conscience, respect for the soul, the very nobility of man. To defend the soul, its interests, its rights, its dignity, is the most pressing duty for whoever sees the danger. What the writer, the teacher, the... 
