Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp and the voice of a psalm.—Hebrew Poetry. The origin of beauty has always been a difficult problem for the men of science and philosophy. Seen everywhere in nature, no One knows certainly how or whence it came. As an external fact, the evolutionists think its […]

The memory of the just is blessed.—Hebrew Proverb. The human mind can apprehend and enjoy an abstract principle, but its greatest admiration is reserved for a principle when it assumes a concrete form. We all love to see force in action. One may learn something of the power of the sun from a book of […]

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman; therefore hear the word of my mouth and give them warning from me. Hebrew Prophet. The pulpit sustains so many relations to literature that when a great writer dies it cannot pass the event unnoticed. The preacher is not a literary man, but he is deeply […]

He will judge the world in righteousness.—New Testament. The idea of a coming judgment day, in which all mortals are to be assembled for a final estimate of their earthly life, is so large and so impressive that it may well merit a separate study. It has engaged much of the religious thought of mankind […]

“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.”-PAUL. One of the most interesting chapters of science, as interpreted by Herbert Spencer, is devoted to setting forth the law of alternation or rhythmic force. Nature abounds in that kind of phenomena. The currents of air, the motions of waves and […]

“Lord, I believe; help though my unbelief.” —New Testament. According to the record these words were uttered by a man in great perplexity and mental anguish. His child was sorely afflicted. A victim of convulsions and having lost his reason and power of speech, in harmony with the prevalent ideas of the time, it was […]

And Jesus said: I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me these days and have nothing to eat. Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; they are white already for the harvest. New Testament. We have all become familiar with the statement that we are living in an age of […]

We spend our years as a tale that is told.–HEBREW POET. Art is long; time is short.—GOETHE. Man could not have been very long on earth be-fore he began to notice the disproportion between time and the life of each individual. As soon as he began, with earnest purpose, to reflect over the conditions in […]

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him and bless His name. —Hebrew Poem. That a heart or a nation should sum up its reasons for gratitude and recount the blessedness of existence, seems so rational that the a& easily escapes all fault-finding. Much may be said concerning the […]

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.—PAUL. When one contemplates some great object in nature it is difficult to analyze and describe his emotions, but he realizes that he is brought into relation with something greater than himself and by this conta& he is drawn into a […]