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See also:great fathers of the Latin
See also:Church . Augustinus—the praenomen Aurelius is used indeed by his disciples
See also:Orosius and Prosper, and is found in the
See also:oldest Augustine
See also:MSS., but is not used by himself, nor in the letters addressed to him—was
See also:born at Tagaste, a
See also:town of
See also:Numidia, now Suk Ahras in
See also:Constantine, on the 13th of
See also:November 354• His
See also:father, Patricius, was a
See also:burgess of Tagaste and still a
See also:pagan at the
See also:time of his son's
See also:birth . His
See also:mother, Monica, was not only a Christian, but a woman of the most
See also:tender and devoted piety, whose beautiful faith and
See also:enthusiasm and patient prayer for both her
See also:husband and son (at length crowned with success in both cases) have made her a type of womanly saintliness for all ages . She early instructed her son in the faith and love of Jesus Christ, and for a time he seems to have been impressed by her teaching . Falling
See also:ill, he wished to be baptized; but when the danger was past, the rite was deferred and, in spite of his mother's ad-monitions and prayers, Augustine
See also:grew up without any profession of Christian piety or any devotion to Christian principles . Inheriting from his father a passionate nature, he formed while still a
See also:mere youth an irregular union with a girl, by whom he became the father of a son, whom in a
See also:fit of pious emotion he named Adeodatus (" by
See also:God given "), and to whom he was passionately attached . In his Confessions he afterwards de-scribed this
See also:period of his
See also:life in the blackest
See also:colours; for in the
See also:light of his conversion he saw behind him only shadows . Yet, whatever his youthful aberrations, Augustine was from the first an
See also:earnest student . His father, noticing his early promise, destined him for the brilliant and lucrative career of a rhetorician, for which he spared no expense in training him . Augustine studied at his native town and afterwards at Madaura and
See also:Carthage, especially devoting himself to the
See also:works of the Latin poets, many traces of his love for which are to be found in his writings . His acquaintance with
See also:Greek literature was much more limited, and, indeed, it has been doubted, though without sufficient reason, whether he could use the Greek scriptures in the
See also:original .
See also:Cicero's Hortensius, which he read in his nineteenth
See also:year, first awakened in his mind the spirit of
See also:speculation and the impulse towards the knowledge of the truth .
But he passed from one phase of thought to another, unable to findsatisfaction in any .
See also:Manichaeism, that mixed product of Zoroastrian and Christian-gnostic elements, first enthralled him . He became a fervent member of the
See also:sect, and was admitted into the class of auditors or " hearers." Manichaeism seemed to him to solve the mysteries of the
See also:world, and of his own experiences by which he was perplexed . His insatiable
See also:imagination
See also:drew congenial
See also:food from the fanciful religious world of the Manichaeans, decked out as this was with the luxuriant
See also:wealth of
See also:Oriental myth . His strongly
See also:developed sense of a need of salvation sought satisfaction in the contest of the two principles of
See also:Good and Evil, and found
See also:peace, at least for the moment, in the conviction that the portions of light
See also:present in him would be freed from the darkness in which they were immersed . The ideal of chastity and self-restraint, which promised a foretaste of union with God, amazed him, bound as he was in the fetters of sensuality and for ever shaking at these fetters . But while his moral force was not sufficient for the attainment of this ideal, gradually everything else which Manichaeism seemed tooffer him dissolved before his
See also:criticism . Increasingly occupied with the exact sciences, he learnt the incompatibility of the Manichaean
See also:astrology with the facts . More and more absorbed in the problems of psychology, he realized the insufficiency of dualism, which did not solve the ultimate questions but merely set them back . The Manichaean propaganda seemed to him invertebrate and lacking in force, and a discussion which he had with Faustus, a distinguished Manichaean
See also:bishop and controversialist,
See also:left him greatly disappointed . Meanwhile nine years had passed . Augustine, after
See also:finishing his studies, had returned to Tagaste, where he became a teacher of grammar .
He must have been an excellent
See also:master, who knew how to influence the whole
See also:personality of his pupils . It was then that
See also:Alypius, who in the later stages of Augustine's life proved a true friend and
See also:companion, attached himself to him . He remained in his native town little more than a year, during which time he lived with his mother, who was comforted by the bishop for the estrangement of her son from the Catholic faith ("a son of so many tears cannot be lost": Confess . III. xii.§ 21), comforted also, and above all, by the famous vision, which Augustine thus describes: " She saw herself
See also:standing on a certain wooden
See also:rule, and a shining youth coming towards her, cheerful and smiling upon her the while she grieved, and was consumed with grief: and when he had inquired of her the causes of her grief and daily tears (for the
See also:sake, as is their wont, of teaching, not of learning) and she had made answer that she was bewailing my perdition, he bade her be at ease, and advised her to look and observe, That where she was, there was I also.' And when she looked there, she saw me standing by her on the same rule" (Confess . III. xi.) . Augustine now returned for a second time to Carthage, where he devoted himself zealously to
See also:work . Thence, probably in the
See also:spring of 383, he migrated to
See also:Rome . His Manichaean
See also:friends urged him to take this step, which was rendered easier by the licentious lives of the students at Carthage . His stay at Rome may have lasted about a year, no agreeable time for Augustine, since his patrons and friends belonged to just those Manichaean circles with which he had in the meantime entirely lost all intellectual
See also:touch . He, therefore, accepted an invitation from Milan, where the
See also:people were in
See also:search of a teacher of rhetoric . At Milan the conflict within his mind in search of truth still continued . It was now that he separated himself openly from the Manichaean sect .
As a thinker he came entirely under the influence of the New
See also:Academy; he professed the Sceptic philosophy, without being able to find in it the final conclusion of wisdom . He was, however, not far from the decision . Two things determined his further development . He became acquainted with the Neo-Platonic philosophy; its
See also:monism replaced the dualism, its intellectualized world of ideas the materialism of Manichaeism . Here he found the admonition to seek for truth outside the material world, and from created things he learnt to recognize the invisible God; he attained the certainty that this God is, and is eternal, always the same, subject to
See also:change neither in his parts nor in his motions . And while thus Augustine's metaphysical convictions were being slowly re-modelled, he met, in
See also:Ambrose, bishop of Milan, a
See also:man in whom
See also:complete worldly culture and the
See also:nobility of a ripe Christian personality were wonderfully
See also:united . He heard him preach; but at first it was the orator and not the contents of the sermons that enchained him . He sought an opportunity of conversation with him, but this was not easily found . Ambrose had no leisure for philosophic discussion . He was accessible to all who sought him, but never for a moment
See also:free from study or the cares of
See also:duty . Augustine, as he himself tells us, used to enter without being announced, as all persons might; but after staying for a while, afraid of interrupting him, he would depart again . He continued, however, to hear Ambrose preach, and gradually the
See also:gospel of divine truth and
See also:grace was received into his
See also:heart .
He was busy with his friend Alypius in studying the Pauline epistles; certain words were drivenhome with irresistible force to his
See also:conscience . His struggle of mind became more and more intolerable, the thought of divine purity fighting in his heart with the love of the world and the flesh . That sensuality was his worst enemy he had long known . The mother of his
See also:child had accompanied him to Milan . When he became betrothed he dismissed her; but neither the
See also:pain of this parting nor
See also:consideration for his not yet marriageable
See also:bride prevented him from forming a fresh connexion of the same kind . Meanwhile, the determination to renounce the old life with its pleasures of sense, was ever being forced upon him with more and more distinctness . He then received a visit from a Christian compatriot named Pontitian, who told him about St Anthony and the monachism in
See also:Egypt, and also of a monastery near Milan . He was shaken to the depths when he learnt from Pontitian that two
See also:young officials, like himself betrothed, had suddenly formed a determination to turn their backs upon the life of the world . He could no longer bear to be inside the
See also:house; in terrible excitement he rushed into the
See also:garden; and now followed that scene which he himself in the Confessions has described to us with such graphic
See also:realism . He flung himself under a fig
See also:tree, burst into a passion of weeping, and poured out his heart to God . Suddenly he seemed to hear a
See also:voice bidding him consult the divine
See also:oracle: " Take up and read, take up and read." He left off weeping,
See also:rose up, sought the
See also:volume where Alypius was sitting, and opening it read in silence the following passage from the
See also:Epistle to the
See also:Romans (xiii . 13, 14): " Not in rioting and
See also:drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying .
But put ye on the
See also:Lord Jesus Christ, and make not
See also:provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof." He adds: " I had neither
See also:desire nor need to read further . As I finished the
See also:sentence, as though the light of peace had been poured into the heart, all the shadows of doubt dispersed . Thus hast Thou converted me to Thee, so as no longer to seek either for wife or other hope of the world, standing fast in that rule of faith in which Thou so many years before hadst revealed me to my mother " (in qua me ante tot annos ei revelaveras: Confess . VIII. xii . § 30).1 The conversion of Augustine, as we have been accustomed to
See also:call this event, took place in the
See also:late summer of 386, a few
See also:weeks before the beginning of the vacation . The determination to give up his
See also:post was rendered easier by a chest-trouble which was not without danger, and which for months made him in-capable of work . He withdrew with several companions to the
See also:country
See also:estate of Cassisiacum near Milan, which had been
See also:lent him by a friend, and announced himself to the bishop as a
See also:candidate for
See also:baptism . His religious opinions were still to some extent unformed, and even his habits by no means altogether such as his great change demanded . He mentions, for example, that during this time he broke himself of a
See also:habit of profane
See also:swearing, and in other ways sought to discipline his character and conduct for the reception of the sacred rite . He received baptism the
See also:Easter following, in his
See also:thirty-third year, and along with him his son Adeodatus and his friend Alypius were admitted to the Church . Monica, his mother, had rejoined him, and at length rejoiced in the fulfilment of her prayers . She died at
See also:Ostia, just as they were about to embark for
See also:Africa, her last
See also:hours being gladdened by his Christian sympathy .
In theaccount of the conversation which he had with his mother before her end, in the narrative of her
See also:death and
See also:burial (Confess . IX. x.-xi., §§ 23-28), Augustine's
See also:literary power is displayed at its highest . The
See also:plan of returning home. remained for the present un- accomplished . Augustine stayed for a year in Rome, occupied in literary work, particularly in controversy.with Manichaeism . It was not until the autumn of 388 that he returned to Tagaste, probably still accompanied by his son, who, however, must have died shortly afterwards . With some friends, who joined him in devotion, he formed a small religious community, which looked to him as its
See also:head . Their mode of life was not formally monastic according to any
See also:special rule, but the experience of this time of seclusion was, no doubt, the basis of that monastic
See also:system which Augustine afterwards sketched and which derived its name from him (see
See also:AUGUSTINIANS) . As may be imagined, the fame of such a convert in such a position soon spread, and invitations to a more active ecclesiastical life came to him from many quarters . He 1 The reference is to the vision described above . shrank from the responsibility, but his destiny was not to be avoided . After two and a
See also:half years spent in retirement he went to
See also:Hippo, to see a Christian friend, who desired to converse with him as to his design of quitting the world and devoting himself to a religious life . The Christian community there being in want of a presbyter and Augustine being present at the
See also:meeting, the people unanimously
See also:chose him and he was ordained to the presbyterate .
A few years afterwards, 395 or 396, he was made coadjutor to the bishop, and finally became bishop of the see . Henceforth Augustine's life is filled up with his ecclesiastical labours, and is more marked by theseries of his numerous writings and the great controversies in which they engaged him than by anything else . His life was spent in a perpetual strife . During the first half this had been against himself; but even when others stepped into his place, it always seems as though a
See also:part of Augustine himself were incarnate in them . Augustine had early distinguished himself as an author . He had written several philosophical
See also:treatises, and, as teacher of rhetoric at Carthage, he had composed a work De pulchro et apto, which is no longer extant . Whenat Cassisiacum he had combated the scepticism of the New Academy (Contra Academicos), had treated of the " blessed life " (De Vita beata) , of the significance of evil in the
See also:order of the world (De ordine), of the means for the elucidation of spiritual truths (Soliloquia) . Shortly before the time of his baptism, he was occupied with the question of the immortality of the soul (De immortalitate animae), and in Rome and at Tagaste he was still engaged with philosophical problems, as is evidenced by the writings De quantitate animae and De magistro . In all these treatises is apparent the influence of the Neo-Platonic method of thought, which for him, as for so many others, had become the
See also:bridge to the Christian . While still in Rome, he began to come to a reckoning with the Manichaeans, and wrote two books on the morals of the Catholic Church and of the Manichaeaps (De moribus ecclesiae Catholicae et de moribus Manichaeorum libri duo) . For many years he pursued this controversy in a long series of writings, of which the most conspicuous is the elaborate reply to his old associate and disputant, Faustus of Mileve (Contra Faustum Manichaeum, A.D . 400) .
It was natural that the Manichaean
See also:heresy, which had so long enslaved his own mind, should have first exercised Augustine's great
See also:powers as a theological thinker and controversialist . He was able from his own experience to give force to his arguments for the unity of creation and of the spiritual life, and to strengthen the mind of the Christian Church in its last struggle with that dualistic spirit which had animated and moulded in succession so many formsof thought at variance with
See also:Christianity . But the time was one of almost universal ecclesiastical and intellectual excitement; and so powerful a
See also:mental activity as his was naturally
See also:drawn forth in all directions . Following his writings against the Manichaeans came those against the
See also:Donatists . The controversy was one which strongly interested him, involving as it did the whole question of the constitution of the Church and the idea of catholic order, to which the circumstances of the age gave special prominence . The Donatist controversy sprang out of the
See also:Diocletian persecution in the beginning of the century . A party in the Church of Carthage, fired with fanatic zeal on behalf of those who had courted martyrdom by resistance to the imperial mandates, resented deeply the
See also:appointment of a bishop of moderate opinions, whose consecration had been performed, they alleged, by a traditor, viz. a bishop who had " delivered " the
See also:holy scriptures to the magistrates . They set up, in consequence, a bishop of their own, of the name of Majorinus, succeeded in 315 by
See also:Donatus . The party made great pretensions to purity of discipline, and rapidly rose in popular favour, not-withstanding a decision given against them both by the bishop of Rome and by the emperor Constantine . Augustine was strongly moved by the lawlessness of the party and launched forth a series of writings against them, the most important of which survive . Amongst these are " Seven Books on Baptism " (De baptismo contra Donatistas, c . A.D .
400) and a lengthy answer, in three books, to Petilian, bishop of
See also:Cirta, who was the most eminent theologian amongst the Donatist divines . At a later period, about 417, Augustine wrote a
See also:treatise concerning the correction of the . Donatists (De correctione Donatistarum) " for the sake of those," he says in his Retractations," who were not willing that the Donatists should be subjected to the correction of the imperial
See also:laws." In these writings, while vigorously maintaining the validity of the Church as it then stood in the
See also:Roman world, and the
See also:necessity for moderation in the exercise of church discipline, Augustine yet gave currency, in his zeal against the Donatists, to certain
See also:maxims as to the duty of the
See also:civil power to
See also:control
See also:schism, which were of evil
See also:omen, and have been productive of much disaster in the
See also:history of Christianity . The third controversy in which Augustine engaged was the most important, and the most intimately associated with his distinctive greatness as a theologian . As may be supposed, owing to the conflicts through which he had passed, the bishop of Hippo was intensely interested in what may be called the anthropological aspect of the great Christian idea of redemption . He had himself been brought out of darkness into " marvellous light," only by entering into the depths of his own soul, and finding, after many struggles, that there was no power but divine grace, as revealed in the life and death of the Son of God, which could bring
See also:rest to human weariness, or
See also:pardon and peace for human
See also:guilt . He had found human nature in his own
See also:case too weak and sinful to find any good for itself . In God alone he had found good . . This deep sense of human sinfulness coloured all his
See also:theology, and gave to it at once its depth—its profound and sympathetic adaptation to all who feel the reality of sin—and that tinge of darkness and exaggeration wtich has as surely repelled others . When the expression " Augustinism " is used, it points especially to those opinions of the great teacher which were evoked in the Pelagian controversy, to which he devoted the most mature and powerful period of his life . His opponents in this controversy were
See also:Pelagius, from whom it derives its name, and Coelestius and Julianus, pupils of the former . Nothing is certainly known as to the home of Pelagius .
Augustine calls him Brito, and so do
See also:Marius Mercator and Orosius:
See also:Jerome points to his Scottish descent, in such terms, however, as to leave it uncertain whether he was a native of Scotland or of
See also:Ireland . He was a man of blameless character, devoted to the
See also:reformation of society, full of that confidence in the natural impulses of humanity which often accompanies philanthropic enthusiasm . About the year 400 he came, no longer a young man, to Rome, where he lived for more than a
See also:decade, and soon made himself conspicuous by his activity and by his opinions . His
See also:pupil Coelestius, a lawyer of unknown origin, developed the views of his master with a more outspoken logic, and, while travelling with Pelagius in Africa, in the year 411, was at length arraigned before the bishop of Carthage for the following, amongst other heretical opinions:— (r) that
See also:Adam's sin was. purely
See also:personal, and affected none but himself; (2) that each man, consequently, is born with powers as incorrupt as those of Adam, and only falls into sin under the force of temptation and evil example; (3) that
See also:children who die in
See also:infancy, being untainted by sin, are saved without baptism . Views such as these were obviously in conflict with the whole course of Augustine's experience, as well as with his
See also:interpretation of the catholic
See also:doctrine of the Church . And when his
See also:attention was drawn to them by the trial and excommunication of Coelestius, he undertook their refutation, first of all in three books on the punishment and forgiveness of sins and the baptism of infants (De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum), addressed to his friend
See also:Marcellinus, in which he vindicated the necessity of baptism of infants because of original sin and the grace of God by which we are justified (Retract. ii . 23) . This was in 412 . In the same year he addressed a further treatise to the same Marcellinus on The Spirit and the
See also:Letter (De spiritu et littera) . Three years later he composed the treatises on Nature and Grace (De natura et gratia) and the relation of the human to the divine righteousness (De perfectione iustitiae hominis) . The controversy was continued during many years in no fewer than fifteen treatises . Upon no subject did Augustine bestow more of his intellectual strength, and in relation to no other havehis views so deeply and permanently affected the course of Christian thought .
Even those who most usually agree with his theological standpoint will hardly deny that, while he did much in these writings to vindicate divine truth and to expound the true relations of the divine and human, he also, here as else-where, was hurried into extreme expressions as to the absoluteness of divine grace and the extent of human corruption . Like his great
See also:disciple in a later age—Luther—Augustine was prone to emphasize the
See also:side of truth which he had most realized in his own experience, and, in contradistinction to the Pelagian exaltation of human nature, to depreciate its capabilities beyond measure . In addition to these controversial writings, which mark the great epochs of Augustine's life and ecclesiastical activity after his
See also:settlement as a bishop at Hippo, he was the author of other works, some of them better known and even more important . His great work, the most elaborate, and in some respects the most significant, that came from his
See also:pen, is The City of God (De civitate Dei) . It is designed as a great apologetic treatise in vindication of Christianity and the Christian Church,— the latter conceived as rising in the
See also:form of a new civic order on the crumbling ruins of the Roman
See also:empire, but it is also, perhaps, the earliest contribution to the philosophy of history, as it is a repertory throughout of his cherished theological opinions . This work and his Confessions are, probably, those by which he is best known, the one as the highest expression of his thought, and the other as the best
See also:monument of his living piety and Christian experience . The City of God was begun in 413, and continued to be issued in its several portions for a period of thirteen years, or till 426 . The Confessions were written shortly after he became a bishop, about 397, and give a vivid
See also:sketch of his early career . To the devout utterances and aspirations of a great soul they add the charm of personal disclosure, and have never ceased to excite admiration in all
See also:spirits of kindred piety . Something of this charm also belongs to the Retractations, that remarkable work in which Augustine, in 427, towards the end of his life, held as it were a review of his literary activity, in order to improve what was erroneous and to make clear what was doubtful in it . His systematic treatise on The Trinity (De Trinitate) which extends to fifteen books and occupied him for nearly thirty years, must not be passed over . This important work, unlike most of his dogmatic writings, was not provoked by any special controversial emergency, but grew up silently during this long period in the author's mind .
This has given it something more of completeness and organic arrangement than is usual with Augustine, if it has also led him into the prolonged discussion of various analogies, more curious than
See also:apt in their bearing on the doctrine which he expounds . Brief and concise is the presentation of the Catholic doctrine in the compendium, which, about 421, he wrote at the
See also:request of a Roman layman named
See also:Laurentius (Encheiridion, sive de fide spe et caritate) . In spite of its title, the compendious work on Christian doctrine (De doctrina christiana), begun as early as 393, but only finished in 426, does not belong to the dogmatic writings . It is a sort of Biblical hermeneutic, in which homiletic questions are also dealt with . His catechetical principles Augustine developed in the charming writing De catechizandis rudibus (c . 400) . A large number of tractates are devoted to moral and theological problems (Contra mendacium, c . 420; De bono conjugali, 401, &c.) . A widespread influence was exercised by the treatise De opere monachorum (c.400), in which, on the ground of Holy Scripture,
See also:manual work was demanded of monks . Of less importance than the remaining works are the numerous exegetical writings, among which the commentary on the Gospel of St
See also:John deserves a special mention . These have a value owing to Augustine's appreciation of the deeper spiritual meaning of scripture, but hardly for their exegetical qualities . His Letters are full of
See also:interest owing to the light they throw on many questions in the ecclesiastical history of the time, and owing to his relations with such contemporary theologians as Jerome .
They have, however, neither the liveliness nor the varied interest of the letters of Jerome himself . As a preacher Augustine was of great importance . We still possess almost four
See also:hundred sermons which may be ascribed to him with certainty . Many others only pass under his celebrated name . The closing years of the great bishop were full of sorrow . The
See also:Vandals, who had been gradually enclosing the Roman empire, appeared before the
See also:gates of Hippo, and laid
See also:siege to it . Augustine was ill with his last illness, and could only pray for his
See also:fellow-citizens . He passed away during the siege, on the 28th of
See also:August 430, at the age of seventy-five, and thus was spared the indignity of seeing the city in the hands of the enemy . The character of Augustine, both as a man and as a theologian, has been briefly indicated in the course of our sketch . None can deny the greatness of Augustine's soul—his enthusiasm, his unceasing search after truth, his affectionate disposition, his ardour, his self-devotion . And even those who may doubt the soundness of his dogmatic conclusions, cannot but acknowledge the
See also:depth of his spiritual convictions, and the logical force and penetration with which he handled the most difficult questions, thus
See also:weaving all the elements of his experience and of his profound scriptural knowledge into a great system of Christian thought . Of the four great Fathers of the Church he was admittedly the greatest—more profound than Ambrose, his spiritual father, more original and systematic than Jerome, his correspondent, and intellectually far more distinguished than
See also:Gregory the Great, his pupil on the papal
See also:throne .
The theological position and influence of Augustine may be said to be unrivalled . No single name has ever exercised such power over the Christian Church, and no one mind ever made so deep an impression upon Christian thought . In him scholastics and mystics, popes and the opponents of the papal supremacy, have seen their
See also:champion . He was the fulcrum on which
See also:Luther rested the thoughts by which he sought to lift the past of the Church out of the rut; yet the
See also:judgment of Catholics still proclaims the ideas of Augustine as the only
See also:sound basis of philosophy . The best complete edition of Augustine's works is that of the Maurines, in II vols. fol. published at
See also:Paris, 1679-1700, and re-printed in
See also:Migne's Petrologic (Paris, 1841-1842) . Of the new critical edition in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, issued by the Vienna Academy, thirteen volumes had been published in 1908, including the Confessions, the Retractations, De civitate Dei, and a number of exegetical and of dogmatic polemical works, together with a portion of the Letters . An
See also:English
See also:translation of nearly the whole of Augustine's writings will be found in the Select Library of the Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church (series r,
See also:Buffalo, 1886, &c.) .
See also:Tillemont, in his Memoires pour servir d l'histoire ecclesiastique
See also:des VI premiers siecles, has devoted a
See also:quarto volume (vol. xiii.) to Augustine's life and writings . The most complete monographs are those on the Catholic side by Kloth (
See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, 1839-1840, 3 vols.) and J . J . F . Poujoulat (7th ed., Paris, 1886, 2 vols.) and on the
See also:Protestant side by Bindemann (Berlin,
See also:Leipzig, Greifswald, 1844-1869, 3 vols,) .
There are interesting sketches, from quite different points of view, by von Hertling, A ugustinus (2nd ed.,
See also:Mainz, 1904), and
See also:Joseph McCabe, St Augustine and His Age (
See also:London, 1902) . See also Nourrisson, La Philosophic de St Augustin (2nd ed., Paris, 1866, 2 vols.); H . A . Naville, St Augustin, etude sur la developpement de sa pence jusqu'd l'epoque de son ordination (
See also:Geneva, 1872) ;
See also:Dorner, Augustinus (Berlin, 1873) ; Reuter, Augustinische Studien (
See also:Gotha, 1886) ; F . Scheel, Die Anschauung Augustins fiber Christi
See also:Person and Werk (
See also:Tubingen, 1901) ; A . Hatzfeld,
See also:Saint Augustin (6th ed., Paris, 1902) ; G. von Hertling, Augustin (Mainz, 1902); A .
See also:Egger, Der heilige Augustinus (
See also:Kempten, 19o4) ; J . N . Espenberger, Die Elemente der Erbsiinde nach Augustin and der Friihscholastik (Mainz, 1905) ; S .
See also:Angus, The
See also:Sources of the First Ten Books of Augustine's De Civitate Dei (
See also:Princeton, 1906); and the more
See also:modern text-books of the history of
See also:dogma, especially
See also:Harnack . (G .
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And yet it could have been quite possible that you would have had a better outcome if only your fellow brother or sister overseas had decided to dip into his or her pocket a bit and donated a little something towards your situation. The situation discussed above was very real and is a description of the people that experienced the famine in the East African Crisis! Alhamdulillah, brothers and sisters, many of us are not being left to die in the desert or having to decide which child of ours has the better chance of survival. Instead, we live in a world of comfort and ease. We can turn on the A/C in the summer time with the flip of a switch and we can do the same with a heater in the winter time when we feel just a tad bit chilly. We can set our thermostats to within a degree of our desired temperature and we can decide which brand of bread we prefer or how much fat we want in our milk! Indeed, how many of our blessings do we take for granted! "So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?" (55:13) However; there are many of our brothers and sisters worldwide who are not as fortunate, and they struggle with survival on a daily basis. And these brothers and sisters of ours in East Africa and everywhere else, they are part of us. They are part of the Ummah of the beloved Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.). The Muslim Ummah is like one body. If a body's head hurts then the whole body will suffer, and, similarly, if the stomach aches then the whole body will suffer. And so if our brothers and sisters in Africa are hurting, in turn, we are also hurting! It does not matter if the people in Africa are not the same skin color as us, or the same ethnicity as us, or speak the same language as us. Indeed, their religion is our religion and they are our brothers in faith. "The believers are but brothers" (49:10) So donate O dear reader! Indeed, whatever you spend on yourself is only for your own temporary sustenance and enjoyment but whatever you spend on your brothers for the sake of Allah is an investment that will pay dividends and provide eternal and everlasting sustenance and enjoyment in the life to come. Therefore, seek to invest in your brothers overseas not only for the benefit of your fellow brothers and sisters, but for your own benefit. "Loan Allah a goodly loan. And whatever good you put forward for yourselves – you will find it with Allah. It is better and greater in reward" (73:20) FacebookTwitterGoogle+E-mail 12 Responses Mehreen December 30, 2011 SubhanAllah!! May Allah help our brothers and sisters in ordeal and give us the ability and will to help them in whatever way we can. 0 0 Reply Umm Kamran December 30, 2011 as salaamu alaikum, May Allah reward you with good in this life and the next. This article was a reminder of all the little things that I take for granted in m life. I agree with you with my whole – heart. Although, I know that the situation for Americans isn't as dire as those of our brothers and sisters in East African, we also need to assist our ummah in our communities as well. They are single mothers and other families, that may not have utilities, go to sleep hungry at night, and fear for their lives daily because of the conditions of the neighborhoods. We need to support our ummah, at home and abroad, Allahu Alim. 0 0 Reply Umm Sulaim December 30, 2011 Brotherhood is the key. Some Muslims value it, others do not. For those who do, the only factor that determines the help one gets is awareness. Those who profess superficial Islamic brotherhood, will keep their arms folded when a needy Muslim of another tribe is in a crisis, even if they are very close to that Muslim. I have experienced both. Incidentally, these two groups belong to two different tribes. Umm Sulaim 0 0 Reply Abu Qutaibah December 30, 2011 Assalamu alaikum, The majority of Muslims in Britain are mainly of South Asian origin and they as a whole are the biggest contributors to Islamic charities… one can also see that the majority of financial contributions and donations for the East African crisis has originated from South Asian pockets. So Alhamdulillah the ummah-conciousness is still alive. There isn't a cultural issue methinks but then again we should not be relying on parts of the community to take the burden; rather it should be up to individual donators to do so in order to encourage everyone else. 0 0 Reply Umm Khadijah December 30, 2011 As salaamu alaykum, Alhamdulillah, we are fortunate in the US and elsewhere in the West that our situations are not as dire as that of our dear brothers and sisters in East Africa. However, I heard during a lecture, a shaykh accepted questions and in response to a question concerning whether help should go to the one who is in your own community as opposed to those who are living abroad, the shaykh said that you should help the Muslim who is nearest to you. There are many single Muslimahs in different communities in the US, and they are struggling because their former husbands, in several cases, are not providing any child support to their Muslim children. Subhanallah. Please continue to give to the causes overseas, be it in Eritrea or in Bangladesh or wherever, but don't forget about sisters here, who in several cases, don't necessarily want to continue to burden the community or have gotten the message (in direct or in indirect ways) that their requests are not legitimate because they can have food stamps. They may have food stamps, but no money for new shoes for growing children, or no way to pay an electric bill. So, don't judge them because they are Muslim women living in a Western country—they need financial assistance that they should be getting from their Muslim former husbands, but are not. Step in to help them as well; Allah will reward the givers in both cases—supporting Muslimahs here and assisting the families in East Africa. 0 0 Reply Yasmin December 30, 2011 Jazakallah khair for making this very important point that we should try to donate to all of our brothers and sisters throughout the world. However, I've noticed, at least in my particular community, that people only care about donating only to those from their own region of the world. 0 0 Reply Halima December 31, 2011 Sad but true. People are more willing to donate when it's for their brothers in Pakistan or Afghanistan but not Somalia. It's something that needs to be mentioned and this is what this article does. Sad that this is even the case but it is what it is…Im wishing Muslims were more united. 0 0 Reply Bint Nuh January 2, 2012 JazakAllahu Khair for the reminder. 0 0 Reply Carlos January 4, 2012 Thank you for the reminder, Abu Ibrahim. Can you recommend one or more worthy charities active in East Africa to which the readers of MM can donate? Please recommend only credible humanitarian charities, charities where there can be some assurance the funds will not be diverted for bribes or political activities. Thank you. 0 0 Reply Abu Ibrahim January 5, 2012 Carlos, I personally trust both Islamic Relief (we even allow them to advertise here on MM) (www.irw.org) and the Zakat Foundation (www.zakat.org), both of which have offices based out of the USA and are officially registered with the US gov't. However, if you are looking for an organization that is not religiously-based yet still trustworthy, you can also consider organizations like the "Red Cross" or "Doctors Without Borders." I hope this helps! 0 0 Reply Carlos January 5, 2012 Thank you, Abu Ibrahim. I have donated. I will take your word for it that this is a legitimate humitarian charity. It does not matter if it is religious or non-religious, as long as it helps people who need it. 0 0 Abu Ibrahim January 5, 2012 Thank you, Carlos. I hope and pray that those who deserve the most help benefit directly from your contributions. Warm regards, -ai 0 0 Leave a Reply Cancel reply


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It makes our day when we receive postcards from Trippers, such as the ones written by travelers in Alaska, Norway, Greece, the Berkshire Mountains, and Australia.
Today's mail included postcards from Tina who has been enjoying her time on the east coast of the United States, in two of its famous bustling cities. Please read on for her great tips on food and drinks!
We love hearing about your travels, especially if you're meeting up with Trippers along the way. Send us a postcard wherever you are and we'll share it on our blog – and mount it on our wall!
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space kitteh has left one galaxy and entered another
oh my god
Digging: Substance / Vainqueur - Reverberation / Reverberate
nvm i forgot about eternal turn of the wheel
life goes on
im joking capt i love you
Digging: Futures - 21st Century Chimney Sweep
"cosmos v. microcosmos"
hrm? intrigued
oh my god best thread ev kyle that's awesome
hahahaha kyle
Darth attacking like a meteor in warp speed
look at those nebulae
These days, when people detect ambition in someone they leap on that person like hyenas. The label "pretentious" is unquestioned as categorically damning. But I think musical culture could use a whole lot more pretension, if anything. It suffers from false, dishonest humility, and from a lack of ambition to be more than either entertainment or a badge of identification with a group. I think the haters have blinders on, and that they are misdirecting their aggressive energy. Somehow, they are hiding.
spoken by the man himself, hunter hunt hendrix of the inimitable liturgy
horsehead nebula rules
Album Rating: 5.0
hrm? intrigued
celestial kitty has went super sayian but his hairs are starting to singe
liturgy krallice collab
transcendental cosmic bleep bloop anti corpse paint 2012
Album Rating: 4.0Again, I'm probably the only person that feels this way but oh well.
Naw I felt pretty much exactly the same. The cleaner production too away the chaotic, dirty atmosphere and made the riffs seem weaker.
I like this album though. It sounds like Krallice but different.
Digging: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
spoken by the man himself, hunter hunt hendrix of the inimitable liturgy
this album is meh
This thread is terrifying and calming all at once, and I could not stray away from its path.
i hate 2 say it guys but i sort of agree with the conception of black metal as just staring into the face of or being enveloped by something unknowable, numinous, sublime (the latter word probably the best description insofar as it has the connotation of something both terrible and beautiful) and krallice arent especially "dark" i guess but thru their wall-of-sound/proggy approach i think they hit that, just in a different way than purists are accustomed to. which is fine, you guys can have yours and ill have mine. and yours. krallice 4ever
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May 8, 2014 7:06 PM by Bill Folsom
Spots of green now speckle part of the Royal Gorge burn scar. It is the result of an exciting step in the recovery process for the area.
This final phase of planting pinon pine tree seedlings, follows seeding and mulching that happened earlier. Bringing back the beauty is good, but is secondary to the goal of preventing sediment from the burn scar washing into the Arkansas River below. "It was important to get the recovery process going just as fast as we could so that we didn't have the impacts to our drinking water," said Canon City, Water Superintendent, Bob Hartzman.
Volunteers from southern Colorado, Keller Williams offices helped make it all happen. "It's what you do for the community," said Volunteer, Larry Clark. Thanks to grant money and the volunteer support five thousand seedling trees should be in the ground by the end of June.
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The Olsen Twins: Literature's Newest Darlings
Humankind, prepare to be awestruck.
On-again, off-again twin moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are set to release a "category-breaking" book this October.
But before you start hyperventilating with furious joy thinking it's the long-awaited follow-up to So Little Time 2: Instant Boyfriend, cool your jets.
This one's called Influence.
What's this soon-to-be-treasured tome about? It really doesn't matter, because the Olsen Twins are apparently "two of our shared culture's most influential women."
At least according to Amazon.com's product description of the $25 book.
It's hard to believe the blonde scribes had time to sit down at their typewriters and bang out such poetry, given their dizzying, party-heavy schedules.


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July 9, 2013
We Came to the Banquet Late and All that Was Left Was Crumbs
Thanks to CNN for the great piece
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Categories: Economy and Jobs
July 9, 2013
Thanks to CNN for the great piece
Categories: Economy and Jobs
July 9, 2013
But in Obama's first term, a few might remember that the GOP's goal was to make him a one term president. From 2009-2013, here are a few of the standout filibusters that took place:
The GOP's use of the filibuster has taken on a new meaning than even 10 years ago. Its "proliferation," so to say, has been extremely obstructionist and in the cases listed above, used to force Obama to be a one term president.
July 8, 2013
12 lives were ended over the weekend with dozens more wounded in street crime. This includes a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old shot in separate incidents. The grizzly weekend was yet another reminded of the work that the government needs to do to curb gun violence, which the NRA believes can be done by discriminating against those with mental health problems.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said the ongoing violence underscored the need to pass legislation to reform gun laws.
What comes next? Quinn is working against the NRA's heavy influence in Illinois politics, and is ready for a "showdown" over the future of the state's gun laws.
So what separates Chicago from other cities? Its murder rate is traditionally higher than New York City, despite having a significantly lower population. Could it be a tradition of organized crime that dates back to the prohibition era?
Or could it be that it's just easier to get guns? The neighboring state of Indiana is very lax about gun laws, and New York City's criminal justice system was designed to get criminals off the streets during the crack epidemic. Cities like NYC and LA have the advantages of being removed from states that have easy-access to guns. Chicago doesn't have that privilege.
Chicago's system is starting to work though, picking up a racketeering law aimed at gangs that New York City's had for decades, but for a city that is only a fraction the size of New York City it has a long, long way to go.
Chicago's laws just aren't designed to handle violent gun crime.
July 5, 2013
The courts gutted the voting rights act, and continued its crusade to give corporations everything they've ever asked for.
The issue of marriage equality is still an ongoing one in and of itself, with renewed energy taking it to states where people are not free to love one another. According to PolicyMic, there are the 12 states that are most likely to have signed marriage equality laws by 2014:
You'll notice 5 of these states have civil unions, 4 have domestic partnership laws, 2 have legislative bans, and 5 have constitutional bans dating back to 2002.
New Mexico is the only real misfit, with no state law and a population that doesn't have an outright majority of support.
While the next few years will bring a raft of legal battles, legislative showdowns, and court challenges on the issue, the Supreme Court victory has given members of the LGBT community and its allies a reason to keep fighting, and a reason for people who aren't allies to get on the right side of history.
July 2, 2013
From Senator Elizabeth Warren:
A month ago, we launched a national movement together to cut student loan interest rates. More than one million people signed on to give students the same good deal we give the big Wall Street banks.
So far, we can't get a cut. But it's worse than that.
Today, interest rates on new student loans will double to 6.8%, yet Republicans continue to block a vote to keep rates at the current 3.4% for another year. Instead, at a time when the government is scheduled to make obscene profits on federal student loans -- $51 billion this year -- Republicans have proposed their own plan to increase government profits even more.
We will not play chicken with our students' future. That's why my colleagues and I, led by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Kay Hagan (D-NC), have introduced the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act, to lock in the current 3.4% interest rate for one more year as we continue to push for real, long-term reform. On July 10, the Senate will vote on this proposal.
If you support stopping student loan rates from doubling, I need you to call on Congress to pass the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act by adding your name today.
There's a fundamental question here: Should we be investing in our students who want to build a better future for themselves and their families, or should the government be profiting at their expense?
One year is just a short-term patch. But we need the time to fight the bigger fight.
In the long-term, we need to address the $1.1 trillion dollars in existing debt, to bring exploding college costs under control, and to stop treating our students as a profit center for our government.
DFA members have done amazing work. You've called Senators, written letters, and brought new leading educators on board. We are on the right side on this issue, and I know that if we push harder, in time we will win the day.
But with the deadline now passed, our students shouldn't pay for Congress's failure to act. Allowing rates to double this summer, or passing the costly Republican plan, would add billions to the already enormous debt burden our students suffer.
Holding interest rates at 3.4% now gives us the time to craft a real solution, one that offers real relief and real reform.
Join me and demand Congress lock in low interest rates low today.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Covering diverse aspects of safety, including training, programs and products.
Agencies striving to meet service demands and overcome budgetary pressures are continuing to make safety of operators and riders a priority, however, it's not always something that can be given a huge investment. What we've seen, though, is that investing in safety can actually work to the benefit of agencies in terms of efficiency increases and cost reductions.
Curb jumping. Heavy braking. Excessive speed. Dangerous action. These words are sometimes utilized and documented by training bus instructors when evaluating a trainee. Having these words appear early on in a training program is not rare; it's when the training nears its end and these words are still being used on the trainee's evaluation forms that should cause concern.
While at the coffee bar, I was approached by a transit professional who asked where I thought it was safer to place bus stops, at the nearside or farside of an intersection? We agreed that agencies, over the years for safety reasons, have been favoring the farside bus stops as opposed to the nearside stops.
Greetings! I would like to answer the following question sent to me and thank the transit professional for doing so:
"Just this week, we have had three bus accidents. One type of 'repeater accident' has been occurring in the garage involving the driver's left rear side of our 45-foot [bus]. When turning right, the left rear driver's side swings out and catches the roof support pole. The last two accidents took out the rear side glass. I need some preventive ideas."
National RTAP and its partner organizations, the FTA and the National Tribal Transit Association, will sponsor a national conference on March 18 to 21, 2012 at the Radisson, Fort McDowell Hotel near Scottsdale, Ariz.
Readers most likely are not familiar with my past work with driver training simulation, so I want to devote this month's space to a brief description of what I discovered working with this technology and what it enabled me to do within the training department I was affiliated with.
A discussion about bus operator reaction time will no doubt bring many different opinions on its definition. There are formulas to come up with reaction time and, maybe I'm the lone wolf on this subject, but breaking down the science of reaction time for bus operators is something I did not spend much time doing. Allow me to share with you something that I feel is of greater importance, the "Adverse Reaction Tip Off!"
I have taken much pleasure during my 33 years in transit to see the unselfish sharing among transit training professionals. There are many opportunities each year to be part of this information sharing/gathering. You can start by researching the various industry conferences, workshops, etc. — a couple of great ones are listed below — and attending them.
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Joyce Rose
President/CEO, Operation Lifesaver Inc.
Joyce Rose is President and CEO of Operation Lifesaver Inc., a national, non-profit safety education group whose goal is to eliminate deaths and injuries at railroad crossings and along railroad rights-of-way.
Steve Mentzer
Manager, Transit Simulations, Training & Courseware, L-3 D.P. Associates
Steve Mentzer is manager, transit simulations, training & courseware, at L-3 D.P. Associates.
Louie Maiello
Louie Maeillo is a Sr. Consultant (Transit Training & Simulation), L-3 / DPA Independent Consultant, Bus Talk Surface Transit Solutions
Jason Palmer
President, SmartDrive Systems
Palmer is the president of SmartDrive Systems, a leader in providing comprehensive, video-based operator performance and safety programs to help transit agencies achieve operational safety and efficiency, protect operators and the public, and lower costs overall.
Barak Israel
product manager
Barak Israel is product marketing manager for the security domain for NICE Systems Inc.
Factors in Transit Bus Ramp Slope and Wheelchair-Seated Passenger Safety Nearly 3 million U.S. adults are wheelchair or scooter users1, and as the population ages this number is expected to rise. Many wheelchair users rely upon public transportation to access work, medical care, school and social activities.
Mass Transit Capital Planning An overview of the world-class best practices for assessing, prioritizing, and funding capital projects to optimize resources and align with the organization's most critical immediate and long-term goals.
The Benefits of Door-to-Door Service in ADA Complementary Paratransit Many U.S. transit agencies continue to struggle with the quality of ADA service, the costs, and the difficulties encountered in contracting the service, which is the method of choice for a significant majority of agencies. One of the most basic policy decisions an agency must make involves whether to provide door-to-door, or only curb-to-curb service.
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Finding golden keywords can help almost anyone, are you looking for another way to rank one of your products or services? You can find a long tailed keyword that can give you an opportunity to get additional traffic. Or if you are a blogger and need a topic for your new blog post, having tools at your disposal to come up with keywords can help you decide and target a keyword for your new content. Im going to go into some of the keyword suggestion tools that are available for free and briefly on the paid ones.
So everyone knows about Google Keyword Planner, but if you dont this will be the first one I will go over. Anyone can find broad keywords to use for their business or blog but having alternative tools to use besides Google Keyword Planner will give you an upper hand.
Google Keyword Planner
Most people know about the Google Keyword Planner, this is a great tool to research potential traffic from your selected keywords. I will go over some basics in using the Google Keyword Planner.
The first screen that you will use is the main Keyword Planner Interface as seen below:
Lets go over each of these options and how to get the most out of them:
Your Product Or Service:
Here you want to enter in your initial keyword and you will get returned results related to your keyword. Ideally though you want to enter in a few keyword combinations. If you only use one keyword generally it will return a list of broad keywords that are highly competitive.
A good example is "New Nike Football Shoes" instead of using something simple like "Nike Shoes" this will give you a narrowed down list of keywords specific to what you want to research.
Your Page
You can use this option if you want to enter a specific webpage and Google will give recommendations based off of the content, you can even use this for competitors sites or any other webpage, it does not have to be your own. Usually people will use this when utilizing for Adwords pages.
Your Niche
This is your niche, and usually you dont have to enter this in, but it might give you more results back. A good example for Shoes would be Apparel>Footwear>Athletic Shoes but then at the same time you could try Casual Shoes.
Location Specific
You will also notice there is an option to choose specific locations, if you are a local shop or in another country besides USA you will want to utilize the location specific option. You can also select results based on specific languages.
Negative Keywords
These are keywords that you DO NOT want to use, so if a specific keyword pops up in the results you dont want to use that one. A good example is "Bad" "Ugly" "Free" etc… depending on your requirements you may have other negative keywords that you want to use.
Another good example is say you only sell Mens shoes this mean you can add "Womens", "women" etc… to your negative keyword list so you are not shown results that relate to womens shoes.
Keyword Results
Once you have entered in your keyword you are then taken to the results page as seen Below:
These are all results in different Ad groups, you will see in the middle column additional keywords under that group. Selecting any of the groups on the left will take you to another page that will list all of the keywords and the amount of searches per month.
You will want to look over Ad groups that are most relevant to what you are promoting and have a good amount of searches per month. The Avg monthly searches are the total amount of searches for the whole ad group combined so this number includes all of the keywords.
You will want to go through some of these ad groups and you can add specific keywords to narrow down what keywords you want to use.
The Keywords
Clicking on a specific ad group you can see it will break down longer tailed keywords and the amount of monthly searches. From here you can get ideas to target some of these keywords to get more traffic either via content or adding a new product with similar keywords to your own niche.
You can also use the Include/Exclude Tool for your keyword results
Enter include keywords means only results with that keyword will show up an example for my results would be if I only wanted keywords that included "2014″ it will only show keywords that had 2014. I would want to do this if I was only focused on new nike shoes.
Overall Google Keyword Planner is a great tool for anyone, you can play around and search for more keyword ideas using this tool. But there are a lot of other tools out there to expand to your keyword suggestions and get new ideas.
Utilize Soovle Search For Long Tailed Keyword Suggestions
Soovle is a great free search keyword tool for some of the major sites out there like, Wiki, youtube, Amazon, netflix, answers.com and a few others.
They have collected results on all of these top sites to give you a platform to discover long tailed keywords to use in your efforts.
Overall this system is pretty basic and does not involve going through a bunch of different pages on Soovle. At the main page simply type in a keyword:
You can see from typing "New Nike Shoes" Soovle has returned from these popular sites some of the most popular terms related to my input. From here you can get new ideas and even branch off and copy and paste some of the results they have shown to get more ideas. You can also download these keyword results in CSV format if you want to save them or input them in another program.
So why is this so great? Well you can use this data to find out what terms are popular on specific sites… Amazon Affiliates anyone? This also shows top terms on Amazon and many people are making money with Amazon Affiliate sites. The same for Youtube, if you promote a lot on Youtube you can find out what terms are more popular than others.
Google Trends – Find Whats Hot and Whats Not
Google trends is another way to look deeper into your keyword choices, while this tool generally isnt used for new keyword Suggestions it is a good tool to analyze some of your keywords.
You check specific keyword terms in the Google trend tool, this is a good way to gauge if its worth investing in a certain product or service. You can see the above graph for the term "Link Building service" has declined quite a bit over the years. You can also select custom views to see a snapshot of a narrow time range say the last month, last week or even the last day.
This tool can be quite useful for bloggers who are always on the lookout for hot topics to write about.
You can also see related terms to your initial keyword, this can be useful to browse other popular terms… For example SEO Link building and SEO services are more popular than my term Link Building Service. So for my business plan I should think about incorporating those instead of "link building service". Of course using these just as an example you will always want to research these keywords in detail.
Have you ever noticed when you type in a search term on Google a drop down box will appear of related search terms? Well Ubersuggest incorporates this but it is basically Google Suggest on steroids.
Ubersuggest will take all of the possible keyword suggestions for one term and give you a full list starting with "article Marketing" and provide longer tailed keywords A-Z as seen below:
Ubersuggest is a great way to get new ideas for your initial keyword and branch off of that and you can then research some of these additional keywords to see if they are worth using. Lastly you might notice Google Related Search terms at the bottom of a Google search page, these are basically the same thing as the Google Suggestions.
Google Correlate
Google Correlate is quite similar to Google Trends, but the difference is the comparison to another keyword, as before I wanted to compare "Link building" with another related term in this case "SEO".
As you can see the chart below most of the trends previous to 2013 were about the same, just recently in 2014 SEO took a higher trend compared to "link building".
From another view below, you can also look deeper into the details to see individual states and also their comparison in the two keyword variations.
Again Correlate is not much different then using Google trends, but with easier access to keyword comparison and different data such as seeing the maps of the trends it would be useful for people who focus on local SEO methods. I did find strange correlations though to some terms.
Using Paid Tools or Services
There is also the option of using paid services or software, two I will mention are Market Samurai and Wordtracker.
Market Samurai I have used in the past and gives you a lot of data on keywords. Besides providing data like searches per month it will also show you trends and there are a lot of additional tools that you can use to analyze your backlinks and your competitors. They do have a free 14 day trial and its a one time purchase of $149.
Wordtracker on the other hand can basically do anything that any of the tools I have previously mentioned, the difference is the organization being that you can save your keywords and data together for later use. This is probably ideal for people with large campaigns or plans that you might want to implement later down the road. If you own just one small site you probably wont need this, but if you have a large website with tons of keywords or someone with many websites it might be useful to save and manage all of your keywords.
Overall there are a ton of ways for keyword discovery some of these I mentioned in this post are probably the most popular choices.


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Blackhawk Hardware
4225 Park Road
Charlotte, NC 28209
(704) 525-2682
Blackhawk Hardware, located in the Park Road Shopping Center, is a hardware store and much, much more. It's been a Charlotte landmark since 1977. Its bath department features hand towel holders perfect for counter tops in gold, silver or rustic finishes. Looking for matching countertop accessories? This hardware store has got them. The paint shop will offer advice on new colors for the bathroom and there's nearly 7,000 knobs for cabinet hardware, sinks and more.
Southern Avenue & God's Garage
3800 Pleasant Plains Road
Matthews, NC 28105
(704) 821-3353
Southern Avenue is formerly known as God's Garage. It is a thrift store, accepting donations to support battered women's shelters, pregnancy crisis homes, food banks, help centers and local churches, but here you can also find an eclectic and charming variety of accessories for the bathroom. Co-owners Monica Terpenning and Sonia Scott never know what will come through the doors. Looking for an outdoors vibe for the bathroom walls? Purchase a statement piece, such as a framed wildlife print. Vendor Southern Diva Glassware features teacup candles and charming glass jar lanterns — some with pedestals. Purchase goat's milk soap, known for its smooth, fresh scent. Try some of the locally blended teas and save the colorful containers for bathroom potpourri. There's the Berry Apiary local honey product line, including soap, small furniture pieces perfect to nestle in a small bathroom corner and much more.
2116 Hawkins St.
Charlotte, NC 28203
(704) 376-5648
Efirds Lighting & Furniture is a family-owned business that has served the Charlotte area since 1959. The store offers lighting, mirrors, accessories, furniture and more. There is lighting for every style and budget. Art glass pieces, Asian-inspired, contemporary crystal, mission and Tiffany are just a few. Perfect for a shabby, chic decor, there's a lace and lattice laser-cut shaded lamp for a countertop. Or, try the elegance of a crystal-laden candelabra. A vast line of mirrors, in the showroom and online, include smoked wood or gray rock for the outdoors look. Select a mirror as the standout piece.
Related: 7 Surefire Home Staging Tips
Village Emporium
1615 Sardis Road N.
Charlotte, NC 28270
(704) 849-8225
Village Emporium is located on the corner of Sardis and Monroe. Apart from the major bathroom fixtures, find quirky, homemade decor, accents and classic pieces to a wide selection of candles. Furniture pieces are well priced, so try refurbishing with a glaze or accent color. Of the 62 vendors, several offer vintage fabrics such as lace doilies and handkerchiefs. Select a few of these to patchwork some bathroom curtains or use as countertop decor.
King's Greenhouse
542 Stallings Road
Matthews, NC 28104
(704) 821-8902
Make plants part of the bathroom decor. The shades of green combined with other natural elements, such as rocks, stone, wood or bamboo, make for a calm, pleasant environment. King's Greenhouse will provide expert advice on what plants work well in this type of setting. Add window planters or above-window shelving for plant containers. Now, here's a popular concept selling hot at King's — it's called fairy gardening. The creative process can be so fun and entertaining. It could become a centerpiece of your bathroom decor. First, select the perfect location for a fairy garden container. Purchase or make a container with drainage holes to fit the location. Remember, a miniature world of fairies and accessories will burst forth amidst the greenery. King's sells a good selection of fairies and miniature garden accessories. Join one of the greenhouse classes and take home a finished fairy garden.
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