It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts ; it is its instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise... Complete Works - Page 343by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 130 pages
...The truly religious mind will find beauty and necessary facts,—in the shop and the mill. Proceeding from a religious heart, it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the telegraph, the chemist's retort,—in which we now seek only an economic use. The end and aim of life... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and road-side, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint -stock company, our law, our primary assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric... | |
| National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 pages
...True genius will find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, our law, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric jar, the prism, and the chemist's retort,... | |
| 1887 - 622 pages
...road side, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from n religious heart, it will raise to a divine use I he railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company,...which we seek now only an economical use. Is not the seltish and even cruel aspect which belong to our great mechanical works — to mills, railways and... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 976 pages
...people. Fifty years or more ago Emerson wrote that, "proceeding from a religious (spiritual) heart, art will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company." If we have been holding the dark mirror up to life, then let us turn for a glance into Ruskin's chapter... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use, the railroad, the insurance office, the joint stock company, our law, our primary assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric... | |
| 1888 - 892 pages
...new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religions heart it will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint stock company, our law, our primary assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use, the railroad, the insurance office, the joint stock company, our law, our primary assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric... | |
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