Article August 29, 1903 Issue

To those who speak to you of heaven, and seek to separate...

Mazzini

To those who speak to you of heaven, and seek to separate it from earth, you will say that heaven and earth are one, even as the way and goal are one. Tell us not that the earth is of clay. The earth is of God. God created it as the medium through which we may ascend to Him. The earth is not a mere sojourn of temptation or of expiation; it is the appointed dwelling-place wherein we are bound to work out our own improvement and development, and advance towards a higher stage of existence. God created us not to contemplate, but to act. He created us in His image, and He is thought and action, or rather, in Him there is no thought which is not simultaneous action.—Mazzini.

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