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Cornell University Library
BJ1581 .S79
Essential life, by Stephen Berrien Slant
3 1924 029 202 334
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THE ESSENTIAL LIFE
THE ESSENTIAL LIFE
BY
Stephen Berrien Stanton
NEW
YORK
Charles
Scribner's
Sons
1908
Copyright, 1908,
hy
Charles
Scribner's
Sons
Published
April, 1908
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CONTENTS
PAQB
I. The Spirit in Man .... 1
II. Time
9
III. Individuality 24
IV. Imagination . . . , . 35
V. Happiness 45
VI. Morality 53
VII. Environment 72
VIII. Spiritual Companionship . . 81
IX. Expression 88
X. Action 96
XI. Spiritual Capacities . . . 115
XII. Attitude 122
XIII. Eternal Yoidh 141
XIV.
The Centrality
of
the Soul . 149
XV. The Obscuration
of
the Present 157
XVI. Travel 171
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
XVII.
Realities 181
XVIII.
Instrumental Hands and Or-
chestral Hearts ....
200
XIX.
Wayside Healing .... 211
XX. Beauty 218
XXI.
Life's
New Lands . ... 232.
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THE
ESSENTIAL LIFE
THE
SPIRIT IN MAN
ALL
great events happen
in the
^_
mind. If we did nothing
but
think beautiful thoughts, the
world's reform would at once
be ac-
complished. Evil would then be so
disliked as to be undoable. The walls
of Jericho still fall at the blast of the
spiritual trumpets.
The recesses of the soul are dis-
closed by the echoes of the heart. We
are vaster than we know and repay
exploration. Down into the mind's
depths we must delve for our jewels.
Somewhere within the soul there is a
mood which, if found, means wealth to
us. We are a land of limitless natural
resources and must sink shafts every-
where. Yet
like the earth we yield our
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THE ESSENTIAL LIFE
treasure only in minutest
particles
and
after sore trouble. The rich strikes
are
rare. Nor are the veins
continuous;
they fault and we go long in search of
ourselves.
Introspection is the largest outlook.
Within ourselves we see furthest into
nature and nearest to God. What we
took for the mere inland sea of our
soul, opens out on exploration and
stretches away into the great spiritual
ocean itself. Our brain backs upon
infinity. We become each moment only
what God already is. Originality is a
transcription; the highest flights of
genius are a divine plagiarism. We are
simply the successive realization of the
ever-waiting divinity upon the thresh-
old. God seems to exist
by becoming