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Thoughts on Life and Religion
Thoughts on Life and Religion
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This book has been prepared in accordance with a wish expressed by many known and unknown admirers of my husband's writings, who desire to possess in a portable form the passages that have specially appealed to them in his different works, and in the Life and Letters.
I have taken this opportunity of adding extracts from private letters, and from the writings he left unfinished, which would not otherwise have become known to any but his own family or a few intimate friends.
Those who have read the Life and Letters, do not need to be told that Max Müller lived from his earliest years in the firm conviction that all is wisely ordered in this life, and 'all for our real good, though we do not always see it, and though we cannot venture to fathom the wisdom guiding our steps through life.'
To others his unswerving trust and faith as shown in these extracts may be a revelation, for he seldom talked on such subjects. This trust and faith gave him strength through the bitter struggles of his early life, taught him resignation during the years when the dearest wish of his heart seemed unattainable, supported him later when those he tenderly loved were snatched from him by death, and upheld him in his last long and depressing illness.
My earnest desire is that this little book may prove a help and comfort to many exposed to like trials, and strengthen those whose path now stretches before them as a sunny avenue, to meet the sorrows that almost surely await them as life advances.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Art of Life, 1
The Beautiful, 4
The Bible, 6
Children, 12
Christ, the Logos, 13
Christianity, 21
Death, 34
The Deity, 44
The Divine, 57
Doubts, 60
Evolution of Religion, 66
Faith, 70
The Fatherhood of God, 73
Future Life, 74
The Infinite, 87
Knowledge, 96
Language, 99
Life, 103
Love, 121
[viii]Mankind, 129
Mind or Thought, 132
Miracles, 135
Music, 138
Nature, 139
Obscurity, 142
Old Age, 143
Religion and Religions, 145
Revelation, 184
The Rig-Veda, 189
Science, 190
The Self, 192
Sorrow and Suffering, 198
The Soul, 208
Theosophy, 215
Truth, 217
The Will of God, 222
Wonder, 226
Words, 228
Work, 230
The World, 233
I have taken this opportunity of adding extracts from private letters, and from the writings he left unfinished, which would not otherwise have become known to any but his own family or a few intimate friends.
Those who have read the Life and Letters, do not need to be told that Max Müller lived from his earliest years in the firm conviction that all is wisely ordered in this life, and 'all for our real good, though we do not always see it, and though we cannot venture to fathom the wisdom guiding our steps through life.'
To others his unswerving trust and faith as shown in these extracts may be a revelation, for he seldom talked on such subjects. This trust and faith gave him strength through the bitter struggles of his early life, taught him resignation during the years when the dearest wish of his heart seemed unattainable, supported him later when those he tenderly loved were snatched from him by death, and upheld him in his last long and depressing illness.
My earnest desire is that this little book may prove a help and comfort to many exposed to like trials, and strengthen those whose path now stretches before them as a sunny avenue, to meet the sorrows that almost surely await them as life advances.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Art of Life, 1
The Beautiful, 4
The Bible, 6
Children, 12
Christ, the Logos, 13
Christianity, 21
Death, 34
The Deity, 44
The Divine, 57
Doubts, 60
Evolution of Religion, 66
Faith, 70
The Fatherhood of God, 73
Future Life, 74
The Infinite, 87
Knowledge, 96
Language, 99
Life, 103
Love, 121
[viii]Mankind, 129
Mind or Thought, 132
Miracles, 135
Music, 138
Nature, 139
Obscurity, 142
Old Age, 143
Religion and Religions, 145
Revelation, 184
The Rig-Veda, 189
Science, 190
The Self, 192
Sorrow and Suffering, 198
The Soul, 208
Theosophy, 215
Truth, 217
The Will of God, 222
Wonder, 226
Words, 228
Work, 230
The World, 233
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