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... thinkers . Herder regarded all religion as an intuition , and looked upon genius in the great man as the world's chief progressive force , as the source of all rightful activity . Goethe , even more than Wordsworth , taught a profound ...
... thinkers . Herder regarded all religion as an intuition , and looked upon genius in the great man as the world's chief progressive force , as the source of all rightful activity . Goethe , even more than Wordsworth , taught a profound ...
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... thinkers , and make up in love of heart what we want in unity of judgment . But I am growing prosy , so I break off . " Yours very truly , " H. WARE , Jun . " To this admirable letter Emerson returned the follow- ing characteristic 72 ...
... thinkers , and make up in love of heart what we want in unity of judgment . But I am growing prosy , so I break off . " Yours very truly , " H. WARE , Jun . " To this admirable letter Emerson returned the follow- ing characteristic 72 ...
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... thinkers was its main object . It was conducted in a spirit of friendship and sympathy far more than of critical re- gard for the literary value of what it published . In one number the editor said it had been " almost as much a journal ...
... thinkers was its main object . It was conducted in a spirit of friendship and sympathy far more than of critical re- gard for the literary value of what it published . In one number the editor said it had been " almost as much a journal ...
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... thinker ; " and " it is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as can not be forgotten , or be feigned to be forgotten . " " When the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympa- thies of the man overpower the ...
... thinker ; " and " it is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as can not be forgotten , or be feigned to be forgotten . " " When the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympa- thies of the man overpower the ...
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... thinker and scholar . He " He has modestly and silently withdrawn himself from the per- turbations and conflicts of the crowd of men , without declining any of the business of life , or repressing any of his human sympa- thies . He is a ...
... thinker and scholar . He " He has modestly and silently withdrawn himself from the per- turbations and conflicts of the crowd of men , without declining any of the business of life , or repressing any of his human sympa- thies . He is a ...
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Page 247 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose!
Page 233 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Page 355 - Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show? Verdict which accumulates From lengthening scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of saints that inly burned,— Saying, What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain; Heart's love will meet thee again.
Page 25 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Page 366 - ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.
Page 377 - As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar. are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca. when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies. "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.
Page 323 - We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
Page 310 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 374 - Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind; yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized, "Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Page 286 - There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul is. Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.