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PublisherForgotten Books

ISBN-101330315022

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Book TitleBook of Solomon, Called Ecclesiastes (Classic Reprint)

Number of Pages100 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Motivational & Inspirational

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreSelf-Help, History

AuthorAaron Augustus Morgan

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight5.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

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SynopsisExcerpt from The Book of Solomon, Called Ecclesiastes The true view OF things announced-man's times and seasons all overruled for his good BY divine appointment. - the lesser accidents OF life, AS well AS the greater. Subject TO god's pre - ordination. - man's duty lies IN cheerful acquiescence, and IN parting good TO others - the permission OF wrong and injustice IN the world, AN argument IN favour OF A future adjustment. - man's immortality cannot be' inferred from his apparent superiority TO other animals - his body subject TO the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Excerpt from The Book of Solomon, Called Ecclesiastes The book of Ecclesiastes is in the form of a philosophical Essay or Treatise, and in this respect it differs from the other Sacred Writings. In it Solomon demonstrates, first, that true happiness cannot be found in any of the means or appliances of the present world, owing to their uncertain and transitory nature; he then proceeds to establish the immortality of the soul, and a future judgment, by arguments based on the confused spectacle of Wrong, Inequality, and Injustice presented here on earth; and after delivering several precepts, social, political, and religious, bearing on the general welfare and happiness of mankind, he draws the conclusion that in the fear of God and the keeping of His commandments, or in other words, in a life regulated with constant reference to a future state of existence and a final Account, true happiness consists.. He commences by asserting the vanity of all earthly things, viewed in themselves, and illustrates their monotony and endless recurrence by examples drawn from natural phenomena. Eor instance, the generations of man follow each other in constant succession; they ply the same round of incessant toil, wuthout the power of effecting any substantia! change; they cannot increase or diminish the bulk of the earth, although they may vary the surface of it, and thus they depart without having produced anything that could strictly be called new. The course of the elements is equally without novelty; the winds and waters fulfil their appointed revolutions, and recommence them again and again; and in like manner human events are constantly being reproduced; so that it may be truly affirmed that man cannot emerge from bis present sphere so as to produce any new development of it. Such Solomon describes as having been his meditations before be had absolutely applied the test of experience to the various resources of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.