 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...  Essays - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. Nolaw is sacred to me but the law of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that ; the only right it icfiat is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 pages
...most be a non-conformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 pages
...objected " But these impulses may be from below not from above." Emerson replied : " They do not seem to be such, but if I am the Devil's child, I will live from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." Thus Emerson is an iutuitionalist... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, he said, may be from below, not from above. ' Well,' he replied, ' if I am the devil's child, I will live, then, from the devil.' No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 pages
...our own mind. What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions if I live wholly from within? ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. ... I shun father and mother, and wife... | |
 | Richard Bagot - 1901 - 184 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, he said, may be from below, not from above. Well, he replied, " if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
 | 1901 - 884 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, be said, may be from below, not from above. Well, he replied, "if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
 | 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... | |
| |
