 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
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 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 from below, not from above." I i. replied : " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
...made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would respond as cheerfully as did the elder sage : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from...no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." However Whitman is more inclined to deny the validity of the terms good and bad altogether and would... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...course, can be committed against him. The sole authority is man's own nature. " No law," he says, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...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 below, not from 25 above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be 1 One who does not submit to the established creed... | |
 | Susan Elizabeth Blow - 1908 - 430 pages
...suggested his friend, " may be from the devil." " They do not seem to me to be so," answered Emerson, " but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." l This story lays bare the noblest impulse that beats in the heart of the new return to nature. The... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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