The Carpenter's Son (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Carpenter's Son

And what was that reason? There Is a doctrine of correspondence between the material and the immaterial, between the natural and the Spiritual, which, though it may be pressed too far, has In it a basis of truth. The material and the natural are the phenomena of the immaterial and the spiritual, and are sometimes their representatives and symbols. It is designed by the universal author that we should pass from the obvious to the recondite, from the manifest to the hidden, from the human to the divine. Hence the trade of this so called carpenter of Nazareth was given to or assumed by him because it was the best practical representation of what he was really and essentially. He was a maker, a builder. Who built the spire of grass with its measured frame and its fibrous covering and its graceful proportions and its complete symmetry; and the more elaborately constructed tree with its root-foundation, its supporting trunk, its bracing branches and twigs and its foliage-covered Whole; and the boundless forests of nature and the plantations of man - these buildings that make up the vegetable kingdom of human science Who built the pebble with its component parts, the rock with its perfectly adjusted atoms, the mountain with its well laid strata, and the stupendous construe tion of the waters of the deep? And who fabricated the marvellous structures and organisms of bird and beast and fish and man? IS there any human edifice so accurate in proportions, so harmonious in adjustment.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.