Cyrus Augustus Bartol

Cyrus Bartol and Henry Bellows

Cyrus Augustus Bartol (April 30, 1813 – December 16, 1900) was a Unitarian pastor, author, and hymnist.

Quotes

Radical Problems (1872)

Boston: Roberts Bros.

• As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
  • "Individualism" (p. 43)

• Private sincerity is a public welfare.
  • "Individualism" (p. 56)

• Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.
  • "Materialism" (p. 180)

The Rising Faith (1874)

Boston: Roberts Bros.

• There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook’s trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palm-leaf! Sometimes it is like a knife-shaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by!
  • "Training" (p. 175)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Cyrus Augustus Bartol on Wikipedia