Not only is there a striking originality of thought throughout the book, but a style which, losing comparatively little in the admirable translation by Miss Whitney, reaches the high French standard of lucidity and ease.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
He makes a forceful appeal for living the life of one’s own soul and the development of one’s own personality by its own inner power. His whole message bids us look within; it gets at the roots of things; his style is admirably clear, terse, and vigorous.—Detroit Free Press.
The volume takes up the relations of the individual soul to the universe and treats them in a way that is practical, but is also marked by high spiritual aspiration.... The book has great purity and beauty of style, and is, all in all, a notable piece of literature.—Los Angeles Times.
His words are helpful and stimulating, his optimism contagious and inspiring. He has a faculty for putting things in a form which lingers in the memory.—Brooklyn Times.
Some of the noblest thoughts contained in this book ... find expression in the prayer with which it closes.—Chicago Evening Post.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] It may thus be more clearly stated to the physiologist: The creative principle of the child lies, before birth, not in that which after birth will continue to live on with him, which indeed now is only dependence, the product, but in that which at birth will remain behind and be cast off, like the body of man in death (placenta cum puniculo umbilicali, velamentis ovi eorumque liquoribus): out of its activity emerges, as its continuation, the young human being.
[In the embryonic period it seemed to the child that the placenta was its body, and it was actually its special embryonic body, useless in another stage, and rejected as refuse at the moment of birth. Our body in human life is like a second envelope which is useless to the third life, and for this reason we reject it at the moment of our second birth. Human life as compared with the celestial is truly embryonic.