The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed. You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that. The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds. The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known. The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us. The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? |