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As a professor, W. R. Benedict always stressed the importance of reason to his students. In this volume, he asserts that reason is the “servant of feeling” and that the Beatitudes chiefly deal with these higher feelings. While reflecting on each Beatitude, Benedict takes the reader to a place of passionate love for God rather than mere clinical knowledge.

works over the material which comes from without, and is not worked over by it. This is the proper and inevitable effect of education. A moment’s reflection will show that the educative process tending to such issue is an uneven one, uneven, I mean, so far as a given family, community or people may be concerned. To this fact we may, in large measure, trace the bitter disagreements in families and communities respecting religion, morality and politics. The younger members of a family are developing
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