Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 12
... hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a ...
... hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Each new fact in his private experience flashes a ...
Page 53
... hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One ten- dency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship ...
... hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One ten- dency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship ...
Page 57
... hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed . We ...
... hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed . We ...
Page 58
... hour . things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear . If , therefore , a man ...
... hour . things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and , in the universal miracle , petty and particular miracles disappear . If , therefore , a man ...
Page 60
... hour of vision , there is noth- ing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal cau- sation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and 60 SELF - RELIANCE .
... hour of vision , there is noth- ing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal cau- sation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and 60 SELF - RELIANCE .
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