This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...death deserved, no less a due, If He, who claims a death, the life own too, Spoke Love or Hate from Sinai's dreaded throne To give another life, and guard one's own?--How dear the soul for which men would atone, What witnesses are sacrifices sad, From Moloch down to Tauroboliad!" xxv. "You yield," I interposed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...death deserved, no less a due, If He, who claims a death, the life own too, Spoke Love or Hate from Sinai's dreaded throne To give another life, and guard one's own?--How dear the soul for which men would atone, What witnesses are sacrifices sad, From Moloch down to Tauroboliad!" xxv. "You yield," I interposed, "much reverence To heathen worship?" "Yes, there is a sense In which all faith," said he, "springs from the true. Denying that, one's choice lies 'twixt the two--. An ignorance to palliate bigotry, Or else no Christian ground for charity. And granting that, I deem, who trusts the soul, Tho' not its fruit sin grafted, trusts the whole, Trusts God and Revelation, sure to find But one religion suited for the mind. Ah, faith there is, whence Doubting seems to be The haunted fool of flimsiest Misery!--Of film, whose folds deceptive will transpire, Whift off by breathing of one live Desire!--Imagination's freak, appearing wise, Not when the spirit searches deep to prize The genuine make of God, but when its reach Ends with this human-manufactured speech. Doubt comes to him who courts a wordish war, And dreams that skill in such is conqueror; To Surface-Learning, and to fickle Trust, Dazzled by Creeds that Sight cannot adjust. Look for the soul! tear sensuous myths! E'en guise, Deserving well all curse of prophecies, May show beneath some Truth, not wholly mute, To teach salvation through a substitute! Faith! hope! love! longing! deeds by which men rise From Eden's loss to gain of Paradise!" XXVI. We moved to leave the mounts, but soon enslaves Our Path a blustering Flood. Wide sweep the waves! They scarce more widely laved lone Ararat, When erst did cease that voyage long wonder'd at, While varied...
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