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The whole history of the figure is a remarkable illustration of the power of a written record, held to be a divine revelation, to impress men's minds and control their beliefs and actions. +941+. While divination has played a great part in the religious history of the world, it has rarely brought about important political or religious results.
Only a few days before he had sent a bundle of Mukton certificates to the transfer office of the company. Then a chill struck him full in the chest and he shivered to his finger-tips. Had Ruth heard? and if she had heard, would she understand? In his talk he had given her his true self his standards of honor his beliefs in what was true and worth having.
Instead of the terse, carefully measured, balanced, and antithetical sentences of correct Chinese, those of the "Kojiki" are long and involved, and without much logical connection. The "Kojiki" contains the real notions, feelings, and beliefs of Japanese who lived before the eighth century.
We are a somewhat slow-moving people, always a generation or two behind our real beliefs." "They have lost their belief, then?" "It is difficult to arrive at figures, sir, on such a question. But it has been estimated that perhaps one in ten adults now has some semblance of what may be called active belief in a future existence."
As several pieces of anthracite coal will together make a powerful heat, but separately will not burn at all, so in the conjunction of similar faiths and beliefs there is a wholly new effect; it is not at all the mere sum of the forces previously in operation, but a pure product of union.
His viciousness or sanctity is temperamental; and not the man, but his nature which is not self-imbued must bear the responsibility of a man's deeds, be they good or bad. In the abstract such beliefs are well enough; they are excellent standards by which to judge where other sufferers than ourselves are concerned.
His sternest critics, and even these admiring ones, were yet to be found among those who with fundamental beliefs at variance with his own followed him in his long researches among the dusty annals of the past.
Philosophers must do more; they must first get reason's license for them; and to the professional philosophic mind the operation of procuring the license is usually a thing of much more pith and moment than any particular beliefs to which the license may give the rights of access. Suppose, for example, that a philosopher believes in what is called free-will.
We Lamptons are very practical; all our men have led good, clean, straightforward lives, and our women have not made bad wives and mothers, but I don't think we have been idealists, or very religious. Our sense of honour more than our beliefs has kept us straight." "Poor, poor Akhnaton!" Michael said. His thoughts had strayed while Margaret spoke.
"All his discourses savour of redemption as all the sea is salt." Other men may draw inferences as to the relation his doctrine bears to the position of the Brahmans, or to the sacrifices, or to existing beliefs; he does not draw these inferences, he feels no need to do so. The doctrine professes to be an answer to a definite problem the problem of pain.
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