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the de[] level of mediocrity & dullness, a book of poetry eg
Tennyson's Idylls, Browning's Saul, Rabbi ben Ezra, or Wordsworths
odes, a beautiful melody, a fine personality & behold a
wonderful metamorphosis -- that man's or that woman's soul has
taken fire & he is ablaze with aspiration which nothing can
quench. How wonderful, how beautiful & how grateful we
should be for this peculiar mysterious quality of God has
breathed into us. Try as we might to refugerate the soul
& the sad splen nature herself will inspire against it for who can tell
the beauty of a a sunrise or the sad splendor of a sunset will again
warm it into life & action. The Bible itself seems to be a
record of radiant hopes clouded, of fond imaginations
disappointed. The Israelites set out from Goshen for a land
flowing with milk & honey but perished in the wilderness.
Moses himself after a life of sacrifice & toil was denied
the blessing of entering the land whither he had led his people.
The nation chose a King & the Kingdom ended in disruption
The prophets depicted the messianic age when the nations
should go up to Jerusalem, & what did they behold the Holy City was in ruins.
From my reads of such facts we are led to the belief

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the de[] level of mediocrity & dullness, a book of poetry eg
Tennyson's Idylls, Browning's Saul, Rabbi ben Ezra, or Wordsworths
odes, a beautiful melody, a fine personality & behold a
wonderful metamorphosis -- that man's or that woman's soul has
taken fire & he is ablaze with aspiration which nothing can
quench. How wonderful, how beautiful & how grateful we
should be for this peculiar mysterious quality of God has
breathed into us. Try as we might to refugerate the soul
& the sad sp[ ] nature herself will inspire against it for who can tell
the beauty of a a sunrise or the sad splendor of a sunset will again
warm it into life & action. The Bible itself seems to be a
record of radiant hopes clouded, of fond imaginations
disappointed. The Israelites set out from Goshen for a land
flowing with milk & honey but perished in the wilderness.
Moses himself after a life of sacrifice & toil was denied
the blessing of entering the land whither he had led his people.
The nation chose a King & the Kingdom ended in disruption
The prophets depicted the messianic age when the nations
should go up to Jerusalem, & what did they behold the Holy City was in ruins.
From my reads of such facts we are led to the belief