Reflections--"Inspired Thoughts", 1913

File — Box: 37-40, Volume: 2

Identifier: VII

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Scope and Contents

"[I] Thought to use this book only for inspired thoughts." (page 5)
"I think of the past but do not as a rule really see it as it was. . . .
"Am yet undoubtedly in bondage to some things which I hardly realize now, but probably will later." (page 15)
"The great sin of the age is frivolity, insincerity. . . .
"Wealth we say is the great vice of our people, but if we were more sincere--less frivolous--we would put a more just estimate on money." (page 25)
"I am certainly sorely in need of more money. But it is not to me the greatest thing and therefore the thought of it and the caring occupy but little of my time." (page 27)
"We need the out doors for the expansion of the mind for contemplation for higher thoughts, freedom for our lives. "We need more outdoor religion, less pent up narrow, foul air religion--often alas too fake in word, act and deed." (page 151)
"So far as I am concerned no matter how much I love other human beings I do love sometimes to be all, all, alone." (page 155)
"I do not believe that anyone ever made a true success of life without a faith--a belief in the unseen, in the value of life." (page 179)
"It is by scientific work that I make a living. But making a living is only a means to real living. Scientific thought is a basis, a training an advance toward truth, and true living if used rightly, but if one brings his higher being under the domain of ascertained natural science he will have a small soul and probably soon deny that he has any." (page 189)

Dates

1913

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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