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Excerpt from A Study in IlluminationLiberal and Mystical Writings of William Law, preface, page viii.Those things which happen in happen for him. A Christ that is not in him cannot be for him.1 Now, is not this use of in really a juggling with words? An earthquake happens for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from The Form of Perfect Living: And Other Prose TreatisesIchard rolle of Hampole is the earliest in time Of our famous English Mystics. Born in or about 1300, he died in 1349, seven years after Mother Julian Of Norwich was born. Walter Hilton died in 1392.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historica...

Excerpt from Criticism at a VentureAs a rule, criticism emanates either from heights of academic wisdom or knowledge, or from fellow-members of a coterie. Or school, or fellowship. This volume has no such origin. The writer knew practically none of the poets personally who are discussed here one, a youth killed in France at the outset of a brilliant career, was a friend of the rest none were more than acquaintance or chance correspondent, and ...

Excerpt from Rationalist English EducatorsHE History of Education is, at last, recognised tenta tively as a subject, ' though, in some high quarters. Even this distinction is allowed to it with misgiving and half hearted dubiety. And yet it is, really and quite obviously, a chapter in the History of Human Thought, though it is still too unworked a chapter to have been otherwise than inadequately appreciated. Scraps of it lurk in unsuspected re...

Excerpt from Rationalist English Educators In the earlier ages of the nation's existence, education was rooted Obviously in its religious life, it was in the hands of the clergy. Alfred, in his Often-quoted preface to St. Gregory's C an Pastorah's, reminding his countrymm of former days, writes The sacred orders, how zealous they were both in teaching and learning, and in all the services they owed to God, and how foreigners came to this isla...

Excerpt from Criticism at a Venture The writer has had only one object in making this book, to spread, if possible, appreciation, love of our literature. It is not meant to provide material for examination papers, nor for the overnight patching up of "lessons" for delivery next day in school. It is meant for the refreshment of teachers, if they will read it just as human beings. As a rule, criticism emanates either from heights of academic w...

Excerpt from A Study in Illumination Liberal and Mystical Writings of William Law, preface, page viii. Those things which happen in happen for him. A Christ that is not in him cannot be for him.1 Now, is not this use of in really a juggling with words? An earthquake happens for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of ...

Excerpt from The Form of Perfect Living: And Other Prose Treatises This book is not intended for those who are acquainted with Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, but for those who care for the thought, specially the religious and devotional thought, of our forefathers. My one aim has been to make a portion of that thought accurately intelligible to modern readers, with the greatest possible saving of trouble to them. When I could use the old wor...