All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...