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" Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. "
From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority - Page 2
by Roger Lundin - 2007 - 278 pages
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The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology

Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 pages
...truth of the Bible. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. ... As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable...
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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria

David Dawson - 2023 - 364 pages
...world, feel ourselves to be elements in its structure of universal history. —ERICH AUERBACH, Mimesis Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. . . . The kingdom of man...
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History, Religion, and American Democracy

Maurice Wohlgelernter - 1993 - 428 pages
..."The Will to Believe." Could it have some expressive origin in Emerson's "Nature"? (Works, 1: 76): "Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolurion in things will attend the influx of the spirit." 4i1 What could be more...
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Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women: A Critical Interpretation of Her ...

Veronica Makowsky - 1993 - 180 pages
...Emerson believed that society would be reformed because it would be comprised of reformed individuals: "As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable...
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Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading

Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 pages
...you perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point your dominion...without fine names. Build therefore your own world. (Complete Works r.j6) Blake, in Milton, offers the same value: The Sky is an immortal Tent built by...
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Human Life and the Natural World: Readings in the History of Western Philosophy

Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 pages
...you perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable...
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The Ordeal of Robert Frost: The Poet and His Poetics

Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pages
...in 1922, he nevertheless had little affection: "Build, therefore, your own world," Emerson writes. "As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea...that will unfold its great proportions" (Essays 48). Brooks is perhaps even closer to the Emersonianism of Henry James Sr. in Moralism and Christianity:...
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Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der englischen und amerikanischen Romantik

Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. [...] Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure ideas in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will...
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...you perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs."37 In theory, Emerson's decoupling of selfhood from ownership extended the conception of moral...
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Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient. . . . Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform...your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. . . . The kingdom of man...
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