Our minds shine not through the body. She managed his correspondence and kept his books, while he concentrated on getting his building ready for the World’s fair. They dined together in his office, on meals brought in from the across the street. He touched her and caressed her and let his eyes fill with tears of adoration. Then they sat down to pray: Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us today, our daily nourishment. Forgive our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but delivers us from the evil one. Can the mind forget the history of its own life? For if you forgive people when they sin against you, your Heavenly father will also forgive you. However, if you do not forgive people their sins, your father will not forgive you. As deep cries unto deep, so my thoughts cries unto thee and you do answer. I am renewed and refreshed; my whole being responds to your love, and I am complete in thee. All my ways are guarded and guided, and I shall live with thee eternally. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

The road to misery is often through the most pleasing paths. When God breathed his life into you, he put something in you to give you an advantage. There is something about you that makes you stand out, something that draws friendly people and opportunity, something that causes you to overcome obstacle, to accomplish dream. Sometime I wonder how did I get to where I am? This is not just my own ability. All of our knowledge is based on our experience. I have good fortune to meet with success, I shall proceed to the examination of morals, politics, and criticism. All of our simple ideas in their first appearance are derived from simple impressions, which are correspondent to them, and which they exactly represent. I first make myself certain, by a new review, of what I have already asserted, that every simple impression is attended with a correspondent impression. The application of ideas beyond their nature proceeds from our collecting all their possible degrees of quantity and quality in such an imperfection manner as may serve the purpose of life, which is the proposition I proposed to explain. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The skeptic who maintains that we cannot know there are other persons is already contradicting oneself by supposing in referring to the plural, we. If such-and-such is not instance knowing, then no one has ever known anything and there cannot be such a thing as knowing. When these norms are arranged I order of their indefeasibility, it would seem that where observation unequivocally reveals just that when we look at an inkwell we directly perceive a sense datum and that is claim is indefeasible in that observation unequivocally presents us with a sense datum. The image in the mind is only that of a particular object, though the application of it in our reasoning be the same, as if it were universal. The postulation of God and immortality can by no means insure that the ultimate moral goals will, in fact, be reached, even though it was precisely to insure their attainment that the postulates were made. The moral order is an objectively valid order, that moral values belong to the nature of reality, and the history of the World process is fitted to realize this order. If we were to assume that the goal of World-process is the realizing of happiness, there would be the weightiest empirical evidence against us. #RandolpHarris 3 of 5

With moral worth and goodness, it is different. Conditions that work against happiness may work for, not against the developing, trying, and testing of moral fiber. The very imperfection of the World is an argument pointing to the theistic conclusion. There remains yet a gap between the claim that the Universe works toward a moral purpose and the full claim that God exists. Belief in God is presupposed by belief in an objective and eternally valid morality. If the moral law is eternally valid, and valid whether we recognize it or not, how could this eternal validity stand alone, not embodied in matter and neither seen nor realized by finite minds, unless there were an eternal mind whose thought and will were therein expressed? One can readily agree that the World as we experience it is better adapted to be a vale of soul-making than a hedonistic holiday camp. Yet, there are difficulties about even the soul-making view. Some human suffering (the unmerited suffering of young children, for instance) cannot always be treated plausibly as developing moral fiber, or as realizing any other moral value. #Randolphharris 4 of 5

The natural environment can figure as the destroyer of moral personality as well as its preserver and nourisher. The validity of the law to an eternal mind, surely contains a confusion of the logical and psychological. Christianity provides a uniquely helpful way in which we can see the unlovable neighbor, admit one and about our neighbor, we bring our view of one into relation with God’s action—his action in creating our neighbor and his constant and costly redemptive action on our neighbor’s behalf. Good and evil are relative to the person who uses these words; and when people are joined together in a commonwealth, then good and evil are subject to the determinations of the commonwealth. As for our motives for pursuing good and avoiding evil, they may be summed up as self-interest. Were it to our own interest to purse what others, or the commonwealth, have designated as evil, we certainly would. Our observation of an instance of virtuous action is the occasion for a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction, which enables us to distinguish that action as virtuous. The rest of your life will be the best of your life. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5