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From the Morning Thoughts we get an insight
into his nature and his beliefs, or in a word, into
the religion of his heart.
" What does nature contain ? Poetry and
Philosophy in actual life-form. What do books
contain ? Poetry and Philosophy in ideas
and words.
" Poetry reveals the secret of beauty in Na-
ture, and Philosophy the secret of Truth—the
oneness of all being. They take us to God —
and become Religion."
" What have the great men of the past
done ? Have they been content merely to
live in the man-made world around them like
common beings, or have they in their inner
lives broken down all the barriers set up by
folly or by chance, by superstition or by pre-
judice and constantly widening the bounds of
their own world, lived above the level of com-
mon humanity ? The internal forces can over-
come the external. Such is the history of
great souls."
" The approach to the Kingdom of God
lies often through a desolate tract, and at its
frontier life's values change: gold becomes
dross, and dross, gold ; all that was real before,
becomes unreal, and all that was thought to be
unreal by the worldly suddenly becomes Real-
ity."
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