Education and religion Author:David Kay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Action, however, docs not naturally and as a consequence follow feeling.1 The two are separate and distinct in their nature, are subject to different laws, and t... more »he one by no means implies or is the measure of the other ;2 least of all does correct thought or feeling imply correct action.8 alternation between the active and passive faculties, the latter chiefly prevailing; but the future being will, we suppose, be active only and always so."—(isaac Tailor.) " It is not by being in heaven that men are constituted happy, but by vigorously exerting their faculties upon heavenly objects The happiness of heaven, therefore, consists in a state of heavenly action; in being so attempered and connaturalized to the objects of heaven as to be always acting upon aud cheerfully employing our faculties about them."—(Dr. Scott.) 1 " Whatever a man may inwardly think and (with perfect sincerity) say, you cannot fully depend upon his conduct till you know how he has been accustomed to act. For continued action is like a continued stream of water, which wears for itself a channel that it will not be easily turned from."—(Archbishop What.ely.) " It is curious to observe the inadequate effect of lofty ideas upon the daily conduct of life. Few persons, with any pretension to culture, are without standards, both aesthetic and moral, which they cherish with devotion and defend with eloquence. If we look closely into individual action, however, which is the only test of individual thought, we find a marvellous disproportion between the thing dreamed of and the thing done."—(AsoN.) " To see distinctly the right way, and to pursue it, are not precisely the same thing."—(Rev. R. Hall.) 2 " Cogitamus secundum naturam, loquimur secundum precepta, sed agimus secundum consuetudinem."—(BACON.) "The...« less