“ Is not serene or complete Religion the highest aspect of human nature ”
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843). copy citation
Author | Thomas Carlyle |
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Source | Past and Present |
Topic | religion human nature |
Date | 1843 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13534/pg13534-images.html |
Context
“their duties are clear to them, the way of supreme good plain, indisputable, and they are traveling on it. Religion lies over them like an all-embracing heavenly canopy, like an atmosphere and life- element, which is not spoken of, which in all things is presupposed without speech. Is not serene or complete Religion the highest aspect of human nature; as serene Cant, or complete No-religion, is the lowest and miserablest? Between which two, all manner of earnest Methodisms, introspections, agonising inquiries, never so morbid, shall play their respective parts, not without approbation.”
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