 What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 42by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Barry Hankins - 2004 - 240 pages
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 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 372 pages
...On my saying. "What have I to do with the sarredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from ahove." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then... | |
 | Peggy Rosenthal - 2005 - 320 pages
...church. On my saying "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested — "But these impulses may be...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. A Renaissance character might have made such a blasphemous self-assertion, setting his own sacredness... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses maybe from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. 1 This pointed moral challenge to the idea of self-reliance is given a still more central and powerful... | |
 | Allan Lloyd-Smith - 2004 - 209 pages
...Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960) p. 42. 30. But Emerson also could say, in "Experience": "but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." 31. Frontier Gothic, David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne B. Karpinski, eds. (London and Toronto:... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...within," and that, while his "impulses" seem to him to come not "from below," but "from above," even if "I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (E&L 261-62). Given his equation of infinitude with the individual, and the categorical imperative... | |
 | Kristina Nelson - 2005 - 163 pages
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 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested - 'But these impulses may be from...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." 34. Oeuvres completes, 824. Cf. III. 5; 956: "I am content with less praise provided that I am more... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 pages
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested — 'But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil'" (CW 1:30). In this passage, Emerson shifts the foundations of duty from tradition to the self. The... | |
 | James Robertson - 2006 - 356 pages
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