August
The Light of Reason
August 1903
Published Monthly
Edit by James Allen
Vol. 4. August 1st, 1903 No. 8
Devoted to:
The expounding of the laws of being and the higher life.
Published monthly by:
The Savoy Publishing Company
Savoy Steps, Strand, London
"The Light of Reason" endeavors to show that the Law of Justice obtains to every department of life.
| Announcements |
Editor |
| Editorial |
Editor |
| Passive Resistance |
Edward H. Woof |
| By restraining the passions and letting gentleness have sway, it is possible to continue as a child. |
Lao-Tze |
| Work Truly (Poem) |
Joseph Thackeray |
You need not go out of your track to find ways of usefulness.
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Rev. A. Oxenden, D. D. |
| Skill to do comes of doing, knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power. |
Emerson |
| The Undefinable Something |
W. H. Gill |
| Many Words—One Truth (Poem) |
Professor Carruth |
| We need not punish ourselves with "righteous indignation." |
Charles B. Newcomb |
| Wisdom hath four faces, and, looking out all directions, she comprehendeth the whole duty of man, and perceiveth the constitution of the universe. |
Selected |
| Of Will. A Study in Ethics |
Christopher C. Dove |
| There is no greater sin than indulging desire. |
Lao-Tze |
| A Morning Meditation |
James Allen |
| The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect are whosoever won’t. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
| To control our passions, we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of every-day life. |
Sir J. Lubbock |
| But noble souls, through dust and heat |
Longfellow |
| Resolve (Poem) |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
The enthusiasm for a high purpose calls into being the agencies by means of which it may be accomplished.
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Lilian Whiting |
| For those that are in earnest, there is no real failure at last, no work truly done—no word earnestly spoken—no sacrifice freely made—was ever in vain. |
F. W. Robertson |
| Heaven is revealed by effort |
Selected |
| The Builders |
Mariella |
| Anyone who gives himself up for the good of others, who takes up his cross, will find heaven on this earth. |
Professor Jowett |
| Sympathy |
J. S. F. Miller |
| Before we can bring happiness to others, we must first be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. |
Maeterlinck |
| If a man makes himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself subdued, he may subdue others; one’s own self is indeed difficult to subdue. |
Buddha |
| Life (Poem) |
Winifred A. Cook |
| Little Duties and Right Thoughts |
Frank Harrison |
| Counsel (Poem) |
R. Dimsdale Stocker |
| Righteousness |
Truthseeker |
| Right Thinking |
Henry Wood |
| It is not enough that a human being should abstain from gross, palpable evil; he must follow actual good. |
Whyte-Melville |
| Ah! depth of joy it is to find |
James MacBeth |
| Inward Growth |
Selected |
| Every human being has not only the idea of right, but is himself capable of rectitude. |
W. E. Channing |
| Reviews of Books |
Editor |
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