Studies in New England Transcendentalism: By Harold Clarke Goddard...Columbia University Press, 1908 - 217 pages |
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Alcott American believe Boston Bronson Brook Farm Cabot Carlyle Centenary Edition Channing's chapter character Coleridge Concord Days conversations criticism Dial discussion divinity doctrine early eighteenth century element Emerson in Concord emotional England England transcendentalism English especially essay experience F. B. Sanborn fact father feeling French Frothingham genius George Ripley George Ticknor German Goethe Higginson human Ibid ideal influence intellectual interest Jonathan Edwards Journal later lectures less letter literary literature Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller Ossoli Memoirs metaphysical mind Miss Fuller Miss Peabody moral movement mysticism nature never perhaps philosophy Plato Plotinus poet poetry practical pride Puritan question Ralph Waldo Emerson religion religious remark Sanborn says seems sense soul speak spirit surely Swedenborg tendency Theodore Parker theology things Thoreau thought tion transcen transcendental transcendentalists truth Unitarian views vols Weiss whole William Ellery Channing words Wordsworth writings wrote
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Page 118 - That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,— Mighty Prophet ! seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by...
Page 68 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Page 2 - Konigsberg, who replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke, which insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses, by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired ; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms.
Page 2 - The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature, in Europe and America, to that extent that whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
Page 155 - The good Alcott: with his long, lean face and figure, with his gray worn temples and mild radiant eyes ; all bent on saving the world by a return to acorns and the golden age; he comes before one like a kind of venerable Don Quixote, whom nobody can even laugh at without loving!
Page 126 - Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
Page 198 - I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a man in a waking moment, to men in their waking moments; for I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression.
Page 124 - No spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise amidst the tempest. There, softened by beauty, I poured out my thanksgiving and contrite confessions. There, in reverential sympathy with the mighty power around me, I became conscious of power within.
Page 89 - The instinctive intuition of the divine, the consciousness that there is a God. 2. The instinctive intuition of the just and right, a consciousness that there is a moral law, independent of our will, which we ought to keep. 3. The instinctive intuition of the immortal, a...
Page 121 - The subject of it immediately says that it defies expression, that no adequate report of its contents can be given in words.