Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 31
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyran- nize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyran- nize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
Page 37
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as sym- bols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow vil- lage tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Con- stantinople ! What ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as sym- bols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow vil- lage tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Con- stantinople ! What ...
Page 51
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judg- ment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judg- ment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have ...
Page 57
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
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... wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All ...
... wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All ...
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