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Title: The Ascent of the Soul
Author: Amory H. Bradford
Release Date: July 16, 2005 [EBook #16307]
Language: English
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THE ASCENT OF THE SOUL
BY
AMORY H. BRADFORD, D.D.
AUTHOR OF "SPIRIT AND LIFE," "HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS" "THE GROWING REVELATION," "THE AGE OF FAITH" "MESSAGES OF THE MASTERS," ETC.
NEW YORK THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 1902
Copyright, 1902 By The Outlook Company
Mount Pleasant Press J. Horace McFarland Company Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
To The Memory of My Father
_That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet._
--_In Memoriam._
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of the following chapters will be evident to all who may care to peruse them. I have endeavored simply to read the soul of man with something of the care that one reads a book containing a message which he believes to be of importance.
While one class of scientists are s