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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in 'The Builder' library means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. The Webmaster to Xibrarp of tbe Tflntvereit? of {Toronto y ~~, an n macfe &y to First published January 1916 Second Impression February Third Impression March Vf .. CoO'oC PREFACE book was compiled with a special purpose,, THISand if it should not satisfy those for whom it can save it but that not was intended, no preface ; does forbid some words of explanation. First then, the reader is invited to bathe rather than to fish in these waters : that is to say, the several pieces are to be read in context ; and it is for this reason that no titles nor names of authors are inserted in the text, because they would distract the attention and lead away the thought and even overrule consideration. Yet, although there is a sequence of context, there is no logical argument : the demonstration is of various moods of mind, which are allowed free play, a sufficient guide to them being provided in the page-headings. As for the sequence chosen, that might no doubt have been other than it is without damage and perhaps with ad as will be the main vantage ; but, readily perceived, is is the implication essential, namely that spirituality basis and foundation of human life in so far as our life is a worthy subject for ideal philosophy and pure aesthetic rather than the apex or final attainment of it. It underlie it is must everything. To put briefly, man Preface a spiritual being, and the proper work of his mind is to interpret the world according to his higher nature, and to conquer the material aspects of the world so as to into bring them subjection to the spirit. Explanation of lesser matters is given in the preface to the Index at the end of the book : but it may be well to warn the reader at the outset against one possible it be that there misunderstanding ; should not thought is any pretence of having collected together all the best illustrations that literature can provide. The compiler might perhaps congratulate himself if the high standard that he has tried to maintain should provoke such a mis conception, but he is well aware that the collection better. it might have been much As is, whatever merit or attractive quality it may have, will lie in its being the work of one mind at one time and its ; being such implies the presence of the peculiarities and blemishes that mark any personality and any time : these, he has not sought to avoid. The progress of mankind on the path of liberty and humanity has been suddenly arrested and its promise discredited by the apostasy of a great people, who, cast off as ing a disguise their professions of Honour, now openly avow that the ultimate faith of their hearts is in material force. In the darkness and stress of the storm the signs of Preface the time cannot all be distinctly seen, nor can we read but stand out them dispassionately ; two things clearly, and they are above question or debate. The first is that Prussia's scheme for the destruction of her neigh to bours was long-laid, and scientifically elaborated the smallest detail : the second is that she will shrink from no crime that may further its execution. How far the various Teutonic states that have been subjugated by Prussia are infected or morally enslaved by the machinery that overlords them, how far they are deluded or tempted by a vision of world-empire, how far their intellectual teachers willingly connive at the their contradictory falsehoods officially imposed upon assent, and what their social awakening will be, we can only surmise. We had accounted our cousins as honest and virtuous folk ; some of us have well-loved friends among them whom we have-heard earnestly and bitterly deplore the evil spirit that was dominating their country : but we now see them all united in a wild enthusiasm for the great scheme of tyranny, as unscrupulous in their means as in their motives, and obedient to military regulations for cruelty, terrorism, and devastation. From the consequent miseries, the insensate and interminable slaughter, the hate and filth, we can turn to seek in confidence of our souls comfort only the quiet ; and we look instinctively to the seers and poets of man kind, whose sayings are the oracles and prophecies of Preface loveliness and lovingkindness. Common diversions divert our habits and are searched us no longer ; thoughts by the glare of the conviction that man's life is not the ease that a peace-loving generation has found it or thought the conflict evil to make it, but awful with which philo and saints have and it is in their sophers depicted ; abundant testimony to the good and beautiful that we find support for our faith, and distraction from a grief that is intolerable constantly to face, nay impossible to face without that trust in God which makes all things possible. We may see that our national follies and sins have deserved and if in this revelation of rotten punishment ; ness we cannot ourselves appear wholly sound, we are still free and true at heart, and .can take hope in con trition, and in the brave endurance of sufferings that should chasten our intention and conduct ; we can even be grateful for the discipline : but beyond this it is offered us to take joy in the thought that our country is called of God to stand for the truth of man's hope, and that it has not shrunk from the call. Here we stand up ourselves right, and above reproach : and to show worthy will be more than consolation for it is the of ; truly hope man's great desire, the desire for brotherhood and in universal peace to men of good-will, that is at stake this struggle. Britons have ever fought well for their country, and Preface their country's Cause is the high Cause of Freedom and Honour. That fairest earthly fame, the fame of Free dom, is inseparable from the names of Albion, Britain, England : it has gone out to America and the Anti podes, hallowing the names of Canada, Australia, and it : New Zealand ; has found a new home in Africa and this heritage is our glory and happiness. We can therefore be happy in our sorrows, happy even in the death of our beloved who fall in the for die fight ; they nobly, as heroes and saints die, with hearts and hands unstained by hatred or wrong. CONTENTS BOOK I. Nos. 1-65. Dissatisfaction Retirement Spiritual Desire Idea of God Spiritual Love 6 Praise. BOOK II. Nos. 66-208. The Muses Beauty is Truth Fairyland Romance Childhood Ideal Love Nature s5 Spring 6 Lovers Touth 6 Age. BOOK III. Nos. 209-341. Mortality Melancholy Sorrow Sin Ethics 6 Conduct Philosophies 6 Humanities. BOOK IV. Nos. 342-449. Lovingkindness Sympathies Christian Charity Myths Christian Virtue Vocation 6 Active Virtue Social Virtue & Freedom Heroism The Happy Warrior Life in Death The Heavenly Kingdom. PREFACE TO INDEX. INDEX. LIST OF AUTHORS. 'walk in the They city that they have builded. The city of God from evil shielded. THE SPIRIT OF I -4FTER experience had taught me that the common Spinoza is *e llm of life & jLjLoccurrences of ordinary are vain and futile, . ,, . - , , r himself, and I saw that all the objects of my desire and fear were in themselves nothing good nor bad, save in so far as the affected them I at deter mind was by ; length mined to search out whether there were not something to his truly good and communicable man, by which spirit might be affected to the exclusion of all other things : yea, whether there were anything, through the discovery and acquisition of which I might enjoy continuous and perfect gladness for ever.

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