This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...and must pay the price of its being. When moral faculty rises to the state of self-consciousness, brute-like innocence is left behind forever. The way of return is closed as by Cherubim with fiery swords. Profound degradation is possible thereafter, but not along the lines by which the creature came. He can ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...and must pay the price of its being. When moral faculty rises to the state of self-consciousness, brute-like innocence is left behind forever. The way of return is closed as by Cherubim with fiery swords. Profound degradation is possible thereafter, but not along the lines by which the creature came. He can move downward but not backward. His fellowship is no longer with the gentle creatures of the garden, whose nature he heretofore shared, but with their Maker and their God. " And the Lord God said: Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and take of the tree of life and live forever, --therefore the Lord God sent him forth from Eden; and He placed at the East of the garden Cherubim, with flaming sword which turned every way." " And so I live, yon see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left, in God's contempt, apart, With ghastly, smooth life, dead at heart, Tame in Earth's paddock as her prize! " Of the outcome of the transaction, there can be no doubt. It was clearly great gain, --maybe a falling short of the best then possible, but clearly a rise above what went before. Something better still did come into the field of moral vision, even then. The " Tree of Life," the possibility of immortality, was there. But it came into sight only, a long way off, and out of reach. Only as a memory and a hope did it survive in the tedious steps of progress, until, in the fullness of time, the perfect Man " brought life and immortality to light." Moreover, there comes crawling upon the stage, the wily, ignoble representative of moral Evil. When man emerges as a moral being, he must take his...
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Collection of essays by McConnell, an Episcopal Church historian and priest. Nice first edition copy with mild wear to edges and corners. Green cloth with gold lettering, This book came from a minister's estate so there are a few dog-eared pages and some pencil markings in text. Still a nice copy.
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