His words have helped millions for more than a century--and they continue to point the true way to a better life for a troubled humanity."Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body," James Allen writes. "Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body."Too many mortals strive to improve only their wordly position--and too few seek spiritual betterment. Such is the problem James Allen faced in his own time. The ideas he found in his inner-most heart after great searching guided him as they will guide you.

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    H. Kerr Publication date: 1903 Subjects: Evil, Non-resistance to Punishment Criminal law Law / General Law / Criminal Law / General Law / Jurisprudence Philosophy / Ethics

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    Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... Eureka AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE To the few who love me and whom I love, to those who feel rather than to those who think, to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities, I offer this book of truths, not in its character of truth-teller, but for the beauty that abounds in its truth, constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an art-product alone--let us say as a romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a poem. What I here propound is true: --therefore it cannot die; or, if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting." Nevertheless it is as a poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead. T is with humility really unassumed, --it is with a sentiment even of awe, --that I pen the opening sentence of this work; for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most august. What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity, sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme? I design to speak of the physical, metaphysical, and mathematical--of the material and spiritual universe--of its essence, its origin, its creation, its present condition, and its destiny. I shall be so rash, moreover, as to challenge the conclusions, and thus, in effect, to question the sagacity, of many of the greatest and most justly reverenced of men. In the beginning, let me as distinctly as possible announce, not the theorem which I hope to demonstrate--for, whatever the mathematicians may assert, there is, in this world at least, no such thing as demonstration--but the ruling idea which, throughout this volume, I shall be conti...

    Further, a great part of what I have written is sufficiently free from the technicalities and details of the concrete legal system to serve the purposes of laymen."