Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes Volume 3 - Couverture rigide

Fox, William Johnson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1356044581 ISBN 13 : 9781356044580

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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The Persians of old believed in two deities, one the source of light and life, the other of death and darkness. To the first they referred whatever makes our existence joyous and hopeful, to the second every thing which renders it calamitous and desponding. Such was their mode of interpreting the contrasts and conflicts which present themselves to our contemplation in the material world, which we find also in the concerns of human intelligence and of social arrangement. That interpretation is obsolete; but still the phenomenon continues, and presses for explanation. Though the faith of the Persians be outworn and gone, yet even now when the religious contemplatist looks up to heaven, regards the blue sky which bends over all; sees the sun in his strength, the moon in her loveliness, the stars in their harmonious constellations, and the clouds ;dropping fatness on the earth, his imagination realises the descending figure of a benignant God. And when he is oppressed by the sense of calamity, bewildered by the mass of physical and moral evil, then to his appalled fancy, from the abyss of darkness and corruption, from the pit whose smoke is pestilential, from sulphureous lakes and palpable gloom, from the unfathomed depths of creation, there rises the fearful form of a devil. Throughout the whole range of society we find antagonistic principles in ceaseless conflict; good and evil in their various shapes are intermingled, and their collision never ceases. We give them different names; but still there are the same essential principles: the one appeals to our hopes, the other to our fears ;the one to love, the other to aversion.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1356044581
• ISBN 13: 9781356044580
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 342
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