 | Crime - 1883 - 558 pages
...the senses, and fix his heart on the immutable reality of the supersensual world : Said Brahma. 1f the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. This being so, the Oriental may well have thought, — since all is Maya, and assassin and victim are... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...the original. BRAHMA. IF the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain. They know well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again....me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanquished gods to me appear ; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ;... | |
 | Religion - 1890 - 1460 pages
...utterance. In " Brahma," Emerson reproduces a thorough-going pantheism : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. " Far and forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And... | |
 | Charles Rockwell Lanman - Hinduism - 1890 - 94 pages
...paraphrasing the Sanskrit passage. They are conceived as if uttered by the Allpervading Spirit : — Tf the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain...gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury - Emerson, Ralph Waldo - 1890 - 208 pages
...quite as much as to the divinity of existence the old Brahma lines : — " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." * * A yood instance is this quatrain of Mr. EmerBut, marchons, I touch a single subor dinate feature... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...of spreading our ideas3 amongst peoples the rudiments of whose thought we have yet to learn ! " If the red slayer think he slays, or if the slain think he is "slain, they know not well the ways I keep, and pass, and turn " again." — Bhagavad-Gita. " Whence this great creation ? . . . .... | |
 | William Torrey Harris - Logic - 1890 - 450 pages
...differences are superficial and illusory. " If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or he the slain thinks he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again." Let a person come out of the " common sense " that dwells in the secure possession of material things... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...subtle and mystic view of the Oriental dreamers is faithfully mirrored in Emerson's " Brahma :" If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. The cautious and lentntive outlook of pagan philosophy finds expression in a fragment of Euripides... | |
 | American fiction - 1903 - 548 pages
...1857, which is still not so well understood, forty and five years after, as not to need quotation: If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think...They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, ancT turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to... | |
 | American fiction - 1906 - 560 pages
...appropriate to itself those words which Emerson put in the mouth of Brahma : If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically... | |
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TF the red slayer think he slays, -*- Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 
