Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xiv
... divine and inexhaustible spiritual energy . Thus it favoured a deeper and more vital religion , bidding men wait upon and obey the inward voice of reason and conscience , which was the voice of deity , instead of looking without to con ...
... divine and inexhaustible spiritual energy . Thus it favoured a deeper and more vital religion , bidding men wait upon and obey the inward voice of reason and conscience , which was the voice of deity , instead of looking without to con ...
Page xxii
... divine unity and purpose of things ; a faith which he does not attempt to substantiate by any ordered parade of logic and knowledge , but bases on internal experience and the deliverances of his own mind in presence of the facts of ...
... divine unity and purpose of things ; a faith which he does not attempt to substantiate by any ordered parade of logic and knowledge , but bases on internal experience and the deliverances of his own mind in presence of the facts of ...
Page xxiii
... divine energy or Universal Mind , which expresses itself and is interpreted to man through Nature , and by its workings in himself . Nature is a living symbol , " a vast trope , " through which , as through man , this Universal Mind is ...
... divine energy or Universal Mind , which expresses itself and is interpreted to man through Nature , and by its workings in himself . Nature is a living symbol , " a vast trope , " through which , as through man , this Universal Mind is ...
Page xxiv
... divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of Representative Men . " We delight in the great man because he is the ampler expression of what in us is cramped and small . " It is a corollary of this view of ...
... divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of Representative Men . " We delight in the great man because he is the ampler expression of what in us is cramped and small . " It is a corollary of this view of ...
Page xxviii
... divine essence in man warrants ) that there is " an infinite worthiness in him which will appear at the call of worth . " Yet with this generous democratic tendency he amply provides against the dangers attending complete de- mocratic ...
... divine essence in man warrants ) that there is " an infinite worthiness in him which will appear at the call of worth . " Yet with this generous democratic tendency he amply provides against the dangers attending complete de- mocratic ...
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