Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • A Religion Of Principles

    Till we all come into the unity of faith, that we be no longer children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine. -PAUL. The writer of this sentence was not only an ardent reformer, but he was also in part a philosopher. Beneath all variations, he saw a fundamental unity. […]

  • The Incentive Of Tomorrow

    “The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. We are saved by hope.” —PAUL. The doctrine of evolution possesses a two-fold merit. It is a rational explanation of the method of creation in the past and it is an encouragement and expectation for the present and the future. […]

  • Capital, Labor And The Law Of Christ

    Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them —Jesus. A few years ago it was predicted that our world was about entering an era of great physical and social tumult. The prophecy was largely based upon the fact that this planet, for a group of years, would sustain […]

  • Man Acting

    My Father worketh hitherto and I work.—Jesus. The knowledge that will hold good in working, cleave thou to that.—Carlyle. Having considered man as a being possessing thoughts and feelings, it is almost impossible to avoid seeing him as a being capable of many and varied actions. In the former survey, attention was held by the […]

  • Man Feeling

    While I was musing the fire burned; my heart was hot within me. Hebrew Poet. There was a time when a large part of the pulpit’s task consisted in instruction. That time has gone by, because the necessity for that kind of ministration no longer exists. The schoolhouse, the public libraries, the magazines, and newspapers […]

  • Man Thinking

    I meditate on all thy works. Hebrew Poet. The domain of the senses is almost infinitely small in comparison with the vast regions accessible to thought alone which lie beyond them. -Tyndall. O God! I think thy thoughts after Thee. -Kepler. There is nothing more marks the dignity and glory of mankind than the power […]

  • Education Of The Heart

    Train up a child in the way he should go. Out of the heart are the issues of life. Hebrew Proverbs. In all its many and varied forms, so much has been written concerning education that it would seem as if the subject were wholly exhausted. Taking literature as a guide, we cannot go beyond […]

  • The Gospel: Old And New Part II

    Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. NEW Testament. In studying the history of all the nations of antiquity it will be seen that each one made some valuable contribution to civilization. In making this survey the merit of Palestine appears in great clearness. More than any […]

  • The Gospel: Old And New Part I

    Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.—New Testament. The standing plaint of the world comes from the contrast between that which the ardent and forward-looking mind sees ought to be and that which actually exists. Between thought and deed, desire and performance, prayer and its answer, a […]

  • The Saints’ Calendar

    And a book of remembrance was written before him. Hebrew Prophet. So to live is heaven, To make undying music in the world. George Eliot. In common conversation and in literature the term Saint occurs so frequently that it serves to arrest attention and merits a special study. In its singular and plural forms it […]

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