Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Preached the Sunday following the death of the Queen. Many daughters have done virtuously. Hebrew Proverb. The passing years furnish many lessons for all diligent students. Schools and books instruct, but for every mortal, time is the greatest teacher. Only our early years are passed in the common school-rooms and colleges. A period comes when […]

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth endureth forever.—Ecclesiastes. After two more sunsets we shall enjoy a unique experience. We shall witness the departure of an old and the arrival of a new century. Emerson once wished for a condition in which no experience would be repeated. Having suffered or enjoyed […]

But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image.— Paul. The doctrine of Evolution makes much of the fact that all forms of life are powerfully affected by their surroundings. Some have thought that the influence thus exerted, if not able to […]

The flesh lusteth against the spirit.—Paul. Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded and dwarfed ? —Carlyle. Each reader of ancient and middle-age and modern literature is impressed by the continuity and similarity of human thought and expression. Given the same kind of facts and the same kind […]

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. —Hebrew Scriptures. All things are conditioned in time. This is true of a world that endures for a hundred ages or a flower that only blooms for a few summer days. The words old and young are relative and vary in their meaning with the nature […]

He that believeth on me, t he works that I do shall he do also; and greater works shall he do, because I go unto my Father. Jesus. Nothing seems to be complete in itself, but points to something else for its fulfillment. Our language has its different degrees running from positive to superlative. These […]

And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me ? Knew ye not that I must be about the business of my Father? —Jesus. The story from which these words are taken is one of the most beautiful in the New Testament. It has been celebrated in poetry and has furnished a […]

I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do—Jesus Whatever may be thought of the personality of Jesus, all will agree that he was faithful to his life mission. His success was fairly won. Whether persecution or praise attended his efforts, he did not halt until he had done his best. Secure in […]

“He preached the word unto them.” —New Testament. “There are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.”—Emerson. Social custom sets its seal of disapproval upon all personal revelations. It is based upon the reasonable assumption that the public […]

” Ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. “—New Testament. Last Sunday some of the most prominent reasons were cited to account for the existence of the church. Four of these reasons are as follows:—The spiritual sentiment is natural in […]