Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 78
... at the world with new eyes . It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect , -What is truth ? and of the affections , What is good ? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my 78 PROSPECTS .
... at the world with new eyes . It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect , -What is truth ? and of the affections , What is good ? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my 78 PROSPECTS .
Page 79
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my poet said ; ' Nature is not fixed but fluid . Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or brute- ness of nature is the absence of ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my poet said ; ' Nature is not fixed but fluid . Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or brute- ness of nature is the absence of ...
Page 96
... passes from the unconscious to the conscious , is action . Only so much do I know , as I have lived . Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life , and whose not . The world , this shadow of the soul , or other me , lies wide ...
... passes from the unconscious to the conscious , is action . Only so much do I know , as I have lived . Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life , and whose not . The world , this shadow of the soul , or other me , lies wide ...
Page 102
... passing men and events of to - day , - this he shall hear and promul- gate . These being his functions , it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never to the popular cry . He and he only knows the world . The ...
... passing men and events of to - day , - this he shall hear and promul- gate . These being his functions , it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself , and to defer never to the popular cry . He and he only knows the world . The ...
Page 104
... the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... the other side , and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior . The world is his who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone - blind cus -- It is tom , what overgrown error you behold 104 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
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