The Mystery of Peace (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mystery of Peace Is it not strange, after so many Christian centuries, that men are so generally unacquainted with peace? And yet this mystery is one of the final gifts bestowed upon humanity by the great Teacher. In some of the rare moments of personal life men have gained peace, but they have not learned the secret of keeping it. To-day we seem to have fallen short even of the calm of classic antiquity. We may be more earnest in our morality than the pagan life that antedated Christianity, - at least we are apt to hope so, - but we clearly miss some of the goods this life possessed. Who is calm enough now to embark upon enterprises of the pith and moment these older men attempted Who among our sculptors carves a face that cheers the centuries? or what architect knows the secret they did of quantum sufficit? There was a wonderful heroism in those elders of a far-off time who, living in a world that needed spelling out much more than ours, yet took up strong positions and refused to leave them for nothing. 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.