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THE

COLLECTED WORKS

OF

THEODORE PARKER,

MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL
SOCIETY AT BOSTON, U. S.

CONTAINING HIS

THEOLOGICAL, POLEMICAL, AND CRITICAL WRITINGS,
SERMONS, SPEECHES, AND ADDRESSES,
AND LITERARY MISCELLANIES.

Edited by
Frances Forter Col

VOL. XIV.

LESSONS FROM THE WORLD OF MATTER AND THE WORLD OF MAN.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1872.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1877, Aug. 20. Walker Fund.

Skilful alike with tongue and pen,
He preach'd to all men everywhere
The Gospel of the Golden Rule,
The New Commandment given to men,
Thinking the deed, and not the creed,
Would help us in our utmost need.
With reverent feet the earth he trod,
Nor banish'd nature from his plan,
But studied still with deep research

To build the Universal Church,

Lofty as is the love of God

And ample as the wants of man."-Longfellow

FROM

THE WORLD OF MATTER

AND

THE WORLD OF MAN.

BY

THEODORE PARKER.

SELECTED FROM NOTES OF UNPUBLISHED SERMONS,

BY RUFUS LEIGHTON.

Third Edition.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1872.

The right of reproduction and translation is reserved.

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HANNAH ELIZABETH STEVENSON,

FOR MANY YEARS THE MUCH-VALUED FRIEND OF

THEODORE PARKER,

AND CO-WORKER WITH HIM IN LETTERS AND IN ALL THE HUMANITIES,

AND WHO NOW IN MANY GOOD WORKS,

WITH THE STRENGTH AND EARNESTNESS OF MAN'S WILL,

AND THE SWEETNESS AND SELF-DENIAL OF WOMAN'S DEVOTION,

SANCTIFIES HIS MEMORY,

AND ILLUSTRATES THE LOFTY VIRTUES

WHICH HE DEMANDED IN HIS TEACHINGS

AND EXEMPLIFIED IN HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER,

IS DEDICATED THIS VOLUME

OF SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS,

WITH THE SINCEREST ADMIRATION, AND THE MOST AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM,

BY HER FRIEND,

RUFUS LEIGHTON.