The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 41
... , and in course of time , all mankind , — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun The relations of the soul to the di- vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 41.
... , and in course of time , all mankind , — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun The relations of the soul to the di- vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 41.
Page 42
... souls , from the center of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now ...
... souls , from the center of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now ...
Page 43
... soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history is an impertinence and an injury , if it be anything more than a cheerful ...
... soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history is an impertinence and an injury , if it be anything more than a cheerful ...
Page 47
... soul is raised over passion ☛ It seeth identity and eternal causation . It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic ...
... soul is raised over passion ☛ It seeth identity and eternal causation . It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic ...
Page 48
... soul becomes ; for , that forever degrades the past ; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputa- tion to a shame ; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside . Why then do we prate of self - reliance ...
... soul becomes ; for , that forever degrades the past ; turns all riches to poverty ; all reputa- tion to a shame ; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside . Why then do we prate of self - reliance ...
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