Ballads and Other Poems: Fourth Edition, RevisedRaymond, George Lansing
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Ballads and Other Poems: Fourth Edition, Revised
Raymond, George Lansing
American poetry -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry
In an article entitled _A Desirable Acquaintance_, _Prof.
A. S. Hobart_, _D.D. of Crozer Theological Seminary_, after
mentioning his twenty years’ experience in teaching Ethics,
says, “I find this book the only one that has come within the
range of my reading which has, for the basis of its system,
what I have found to be satisfactory. The writer assumes that
there is in the nature of things a law of ethical conduct
as continuous and self-evincing as is the law of physical
health.... The study of psychology has opened the mind to
inspection as we open the back of a watch-case and see the
wheels go round; and this study lays its crown of victorious
explorations at the feet of ethics.... His view is that
conscience is the sense of conflict between bodily and mental
desires ... therefore not a guide; it is only a sense of
lostness in the woods, that wants a guide. Good sense and good
religion are the guides to be consulted. By many illustrations
and very clear reasoning he verifies his view. Then, ... he
takes up the task unusual in such books—of showing how the
leading moral qualities can and ought to be cultivated. In
view of my own careful reading of the book I venture to call
attention to it as a most fertile source of instruction and
suggestion for ethical teaching.”—_The Baptist._
“The book is clear and comprehensive. His theory in regard to
conflict is reasonable, and the principles deduced from it have
philosophic foundation.”—_Boston Transcript._
“Professor Raymond extracts a fundamental principle that
largely reconciles existing ethical theories ... makes
distinctions that have vitality, and will repay the necessary
study and application.”—_Scientific American._
=A Poet’s Cabinet= and =An Art Philosopher’s Cabinet=.
Two books containing quotations, the one from the poems, and the other
from the æsthetic works of George Lansing Raymond, selected by Marion
Mills Miller, Litt.D., editor of _The Classics, Greek, and Latin_. Each
book 8vo. cloth-bound, gilt top. $2.00
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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