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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ggleand passion and pain — are inseparable from personalitv, from the ever-un-folding and perfecting being in vvhom the continuity of experience conservesthe results of all the divine education of man. The whole movement ofhuman history is toward the perfected individual consciously fulfilling him-self in the perfected society—the realized and manifest Kingdom of God. The destruction of personality is for man the extinction of being. Ex-tinction is remediless waste. In nature there is no waste. Individuals I F. W. H. Myers, in his Essays, says: I remember how, at Cambridge, I walkedwith her once in the Fellows Garden of Trinity, on an evening of rainy May ; and she, stirredsomewhat beyond her wont, and taking as her text the three words which have been used sooften as the inspiring trumpet-call of men — the words God, Immortality, Duty—pronouncedwith terrible earnestness how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, andyet how peremptory and absolute the third.
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WKSTMINSTKR AI5HKV 470 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: THIRD DAY. perish, but the tvpe remains in perpetually recurring forms that but repeatthe antecedent forms by absorbing their disorganized substance. There issuccession, and there is economy, but no advance. In man, because he is aspiritual personality, there is the possibility and the realization of endlessprogress, not the mere recurrence of types nourished on the decay of preced-ing types. The loss of personality is utter loss of being, and such self-abnegationas the poetess contemplates, were it possible, would be final suicide and thelapse of human life into absolute, hopeless failure. The plea that the desirefor personal immortality (as if there were or could be an impersonalimmortality) is selfish, is at once specious and false. The greatest servicewhich we can render to our kind, present or future, is by and through thefulness and strength and sweetness of personality to which we attain. Tocovet this is the supreme passion of unselfish

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