A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams. Works - Page 74by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Sylvia J. Cook - 2008 - 304 pages
...dangerous uses of the mind. In the discussion of "Nature," there is considerable interest in the sentence "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise" and some exchange of comments like beautiful, truthful, dry, and foolish on Emerson's essay (213).... | |
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