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Collectanea.
right now that my whole head is clear , and my strength fresh ? I acknowledge that the present is the fittest season , and that precisely because I do acknowledge it to be the fittest . I will then live through this daytime of truth attentively , ancl bear it away with me to the evening dusk , that it may lighten my end . ' In these sweetest May-hours of youth , when heaven and earth ancl his own heart were beating together in harmony , he gave ardent words to his ardent thoughtsand
, kept them written down under the title of ' Reminiscences of the best hours of life for the hour of death . ' He meant to cheer himself at his last hour with these views of his happy life , and to look back from the glow of the evening to the brightness of the morning of his youth . "Richter .
ETERNITY OP THE SOUL ' EXISTENCE . —Every individual experience amply testifies that the forgotten incidents of long past years require only the touch of the kindling spirit to start up in all their pristine freshness before us . How often do we remember having recognized in our dreams those feelings and circumstances which had been lost to our waking consciousness in the accumulated events which passing time had impressed upon our minds ! And although we cannot say that we acknowledgeas belonging to our actual experienceall the visionary
, , combinations which are thus presented to our notice in dreams , yet we feel that every object in them is familiar to our knowledge . Some persons , as we have said , on the near approach of death , have spoken of the incidents of their lives as being simultaneously presented before them as if in a magic mirror , every line as if fixed upon a tablet by the light , exactly as that revealing light fell upon it . The portrait of the soul is the perfect reflection of itself , and every man must see his own character
thus for ever visible to the eye of God , and , probably , hereafter to angels and to men . Reason and revelation agree , then , in asserting that absolute forgetfuluess or obliteration is impossible ; and that all the events of our history are written in our living spirits ; and , whether seen or unseen , will there remain for ever , unless removed by the act of merciful Omnipotence ! It is true that a thousand incidents will spread a veil between our present consciousness and the record on the soulbut
, there the record rests , waiting the judgment of God . These sublime facts deeply warn us as to the manner in which we suffer our faculties to be engaged , not only as their exercise affects ourselves , but also in their influence on the destiny of others . —Dr . Moore ' s Power of the Soul over the Body .
ARAB PROVERBS . —If your friend is made of honey , clo not eat him all up . If you travel through the country of the blind , be blind yourself . When you are the anvil , have patience ; when you are the hammer , strike straight and well . He who cannot take a hint will not comprehend a long explanation . The mother of the murdered man may sleep ; but the mother of the murderer cannot . I like the head of a clog better than the tail of a lion . Take counsel of one greater , and of one less than yourself ; ancl afterwards form your own opinion . —Algeria in 1845 .
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Collectanea.
right now that my whole head is clear , and my strength fresh ? I acknowledge that the present is the fittest season , and that precisely because I do acknowledge it to be the fittest . I will then live through this daytime of truth attentively , ancl bear it away with me to the evening dusk , that it may lighten my end . ' In these sweetest May-hours of youth , when heaven and earth ancl his own heart were beating together in harmony , he gave ardent words to his ardent thoughtsand
, kept them written down under the title of ' Reminiscences of the best hours of life for the hour of death . ' He meant to cheer himself at his last hour with these views of his happy life , and to look back from the glow of the evening to the brightness of the morning of his youth . "Richter .
ETERNITY OP THE SOUL ' EXISTENCE . —Every individual experience amply testifies that the forgotten incidents of long past years require only the touch of the kindling spirit to start up in all their pristine freshness before us . How often do we remember having recognized in our dreams those feelings and circumstances which had been lost to our waking consciousness in the accumulated events which passing time had impressed upon our minds ! And although we cannot say that we acknowledgeas belonging to our actual experienceall the visionary
, , combinations which are thus presented to our notice in dreams , yet we feel that every object in them is familiar to our knowledge . Some persons , as we have said , on the near approach of death , have spoken of the incidents of their lives as being simultaneously presented before them as if in a magic mirror , every line as if fixed upon a tablet by the light , exactly as that revealing light fell upon it . The portrait of the soul is the perfect reflection of itself , and every man must see his own character
thus for ever visible to the eye of God , and , probably , hereafter to angels and to men . Reason and revelation agree , then , in asserting that absolute forgetfuluess or obliteration is impossible ; and that all the events of our history are written in our living spirits ; and , whether seen or unseen , will there remain for ever , unless removed by the act of merciful Omnipotence ! It is true that a thousand incidents will spread a veil between our present consciousness and the record on the soulbut
, there the record rests , waiting the judgment of God . These sublime facts deeply warn us as to the manner in which we suffer our faculties to be engaged , not only as their exercise affects ourselves , but also in their influence on the destiny of others . —Dr . Moore ' s Power of the Soul over the Body .
ARAB PROVERBS . —If your friend is made of honey , clo not eat him all up . If you travel through the country of the blind , be blind yourself . When you are the anvil , have patience ; when you are the hammer , strike straight and well . He who cannot take a hint will not comprehend a long explanation . The mother of the murdered man may sleep ; but the mother of the murderer cannot . I like the head of a clog better than the tail of a lion . Take counsel of one greater , and of one less than yourself ; ancl afterwards form your own opinion . —Algeria in 1845 .