Part 1 of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle, the mother principle, the social principle, and deific principle and as the healing grace. Part 2 embraces some thirty and more essays on “Contemplations of life’s ideals.” “The human being is as comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in prophecy and promise” is the note sounded thruout.
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The first of these stories is a pathetic tale of an aged Jew who had spent his life with a wife who despised him, and had seen his only son forsake his faith. The fact that this son had become a great philosopher and teacher did not dull his disappointment and he tells the story of his life as he has seen it sadly from time to time to the doctor who attends him during his last days and who gains much from him both in thought and inspiration. The second story. The patriarch, is a Jewish romance but it is also a picture of Jewish family life with its strong religious feeling and prejudices.
“The tales are well translated into clear, idiomatic English. Although lacking in incident, being rather chronicles of thought than stories of action, they will repay in more ways than one a careful reading.”
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Franklin, Benjamin. Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed., with a life and introd. by Albert H: Smyth, 10v. ea. **$3. Macmillan.