Reasons and Reasons (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ James Moffatt

Excerpt from Reasons and Reasons This also - this impulse of superstition, this secret sin of deference to material forces, is repudiated by job. The other misdeeds come home to us across the centuries. He protests that he is innocent of sensual desire and act, of social injustice, of callousness and churlish conduct, of niggardliness and of hypocrisy. Most of these faults, even when they are inward, are luminous enough in any age. They beset wealth and power in every condition of the world. But the force of this temptation, or at any rate its form, is Oriental, and it can hardly be appreciated at once except by those who have had to live and travel in tropical or semi-tropical countries. Under our climate and civilization we can barely conceive the fascination, almost the tyranny, exercised over the primitive mind by these brilliant heavenly bodies which move through cloudless skies with unearthly grandeur, the emblems not simply of a weird beauty but of a varied power, since upon them the health and fortunes and even the movements of men largely depended. 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.