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The Collected Works of John Henry Newman (31 Vols.) includes over two hundred fifty sermons from Newman. Newman's professional career spanned nearly seventy years, during which time he held the position of vicar at Oriel College, Oxford, rector of University College, Dublin, priest at Birmingham Oratory and was appointed to the college of Cardinals in 1879. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Sermons...

feel pleasure and pain, but still they take every thing as it comes, and then let it go again, as men do in dreams. They have memory, but not the memory of an intellectual being; they put together nothing, they make nothing one and individual to themselves out of the particular sensations which they receive; nothing is to them a reality or has a substance beyond those sensations; they are but sensible of a number of successive impressions. And hence, as their other feelings, so their feeling of pain
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