EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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Page 27
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine , 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 , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
Page 33
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople . What does ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople . What does ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand- eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have de- nied ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand- eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have de- nied ...
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... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact be- hind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact be- hind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
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... wisdom , of that in- spiration of man which cannot be denied without im- piety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense in- telligence , which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth . When we discern justice , when ...
... wisdom , of that in- spiration of man which cannot be denied without im- piety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense in- telligence , which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth . When we discern justice , when ...
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