The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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E ERY problem must be wrougmht out in the department
in which it belongs. We do not take a purely mathematical question into the chemical laboratory for
solution, nor do we take problems of chemistry into the
observatory of the astronomer. While the various divisions
of scientific knowledge and research sometimes overlap, and
are always more or less nearly related, they are at the same
time independent in themselves.
The great "question of the continued life of the soul after
death,- the problem of the immortal life,- cannot be solved
by any log-ical process alone, nor yet by scientific demonstration. It receives its highest- endorsement from our
spiritual nature, and that is the last and noblest development to which the human being attains. It is only reached
by a conquest of the animal within us, by an unswerving
love of truth, and by such love for our fellow-beings that
our greatest happiness is found in helping them, and -rendering them service.
This is not an easy condition to reach, nor to maintain. It is accomplished only by struggle, by discipline,
and by an earnest desire, and an honest purpose to grow
steadily Godward. It is the nature of man to grow intellectually, and also spiritually, but the progress is often
very slow. We continually meet people who are so conscious of the pettiness of our daily life, as it is usually
lived, so painfully aware of their own unworthiness, and
of the groveling aims and methods of those by whom
they are surrounded, that they have serious doubts whether
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