Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 61
... body . We become physically nimble and light- some ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never be so . No man fears age or misfortune or death in their serene company , for he is transported out of the ...
... body . We become physically nimble and light- some ; we tread on air ; life is no longer irksome , and we think it will never be so . No man fears age or misfortune or death in their serene company , for he is transported out of the ...
Page 62
... body . In short , they might all say of matter , what Michael Angelo said of ex- ternal beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed , in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time . " It appears that motion , poetry ...
... body . In short , they might all say of matter , what Michael Angelo said of ex- ternal beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed , in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time . " It appears that motion , poetry ...
Page 68
... body of man . It is a remoter and inferior incarna- tion of God , a projection of God in the uncon- scious . But it differs from the body in one impor- tant respect . It is not , like that , now subjected to the human will . Its serene ...
... body of man . It is a remoter and inferior incarna- tion of God , a projection of God in the uncon- scious . But it differs from the body in one impor- tant respect . It is not , like that , now subjected to the human will . Its serene ...
Page 76
... body by the dentist and the surgeon . This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territo- ries inch by inch , instead of vaulting at once into his throne . Meantime , in the thick darkness , there are not ...
... body by the dentist and the surgeon . This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territo- ries inch by inch , instead of vaulting at once into his throne . Meantime , in the thick darkness , there are not ...
Page 93
... body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes , so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge . And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 93.
... body can be nourished on any food , though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes , so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge . And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . 93.
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