And these conquering religions retain and extend their hold upon the human mind and human affections by reason of their fundamental principles,the fatherhood of a personal God, and the brotherhood of universal man.

Harvey D. Whipple was proud of his new son; had already come to feel a real fatherhood for him, and could deny him nothing.

For the philosophers would get at the secret by reason, contemning emotion; whereas the poet knows that creation implies fatherhood, and fatherhood implies emotion, even passionate emotion.

For the desire of man's soul after the Universal, to be in harmony with it, is (as a matter of fact, and when all pulpit eloquence has been discounted) something more than a mere intellectual attraction: a [Greek: storghê] rather; a yearning felt in its veins to know its fatherhood.

I went through many dark days afterward, but I never could quite despair when I remembered the fatherhood and the husbandhood which were in his eyes and his voice that night The story of the next twelve months could be told in few words, so far as its external incidents are concerned.

He does not enjoin sacrifices, for he knows no god to whom they can be offered; but "he proclaimed the brotherhood of man, if he did not reveal the fatherhood of God."