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Essay 16: Dangers of National Repentance
“A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our national sin’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbor (even our Christian neighbor) in the cabinet, whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that satan can suggest to our fancy.’ Such an escape from personal repentance…would be welcome to the moral cowardice of anyone.”
— Feb 09, 2024 05:30AM
“A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our national sin’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbor (even our Christian neighbor) in the cabinet, whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that satan can suggest to our fancy.’ Such an escape from personal repentance…would be welcome to the moral cowardice of anyone.”
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Lizzy Tonkin
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Essay 26: What Christmas Means to Me
“If it were my business to have a ‘view’ on this, I should say that I much approve of merrymaking. But what I approve of much more is everybody minding his own business.”
— Feb 11, 2024 02:24PM
“If it were my business to have a ‘view’ on this, I should say that I much approve of merrymaking. But what I approve of much more is everybody minding his own business.”
Lizzy Tonkin
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Essay 25: The Sermon and the Lunch
“The family, like the nation, can be offered to God, can be converted and redeemed, and will then become the channel of particular blessings and graves. But, like everything else that is human, it needs redemption. Unredeemed, it will produce only particular temptations, corruptions, and miseries. Charity begins at home: so does uncharity.”
— Feb 11, 2024 02:23PM
“The family, like the nation, can be offered to God, can be converted and redeemed, and will then become the channel of particular blessings and graves. But, like everything else that is human, it needs redemption. Unredeemed, it will produce only particular temptations, corruptions, and miseries. Charity begins at home: so does uncharity.”
Lizzy Tonkin
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Essay 22: Modern Translations of the Bible
— Feb 11, 2024 12:13PM
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Essay 20: The Decline of Religion
“The fog of “religion” has lifted; the positions and numbers of both armies can be observed; and real shooting is now possible.”
— Feb 11, 2024 05:08AM
“The fog of “religion” has lifted; the positions and numbers of both armies can be observed; and real shooting is now possible.”
Lizzy Tonkin
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Essay 18: On the Reading of Old Books
“It has always therefore been one of my main endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring then secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.”
— Feb 09, 2024 07:25AM
“It has always therefore been one of my main endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring then secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.”
Lizzy Tonkin
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Essay 17: Two Ways With the Self
“The wrong asceticism torments the self: the right kind kills selfless. We must die daily: but it is better to love the self than to love nothing, and pity the self than to pity no one.”
— Feb 09, 2024 06:25AM
“The wrong asceticism torments the self: the right kind kills selfless. We must die daily: but it is better to love the self than to love nothing, and pity the self than to pity no one.”
