 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
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 | 1909 - 366 pages
...find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works, treadmills, railways, and machinery the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey ? When... | |
 | Charles Orville McCasland - 1908 - 380 pages
...holiness in new and necessary facts in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding {torn 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." But Art, starting from such sublime... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1903 - 694 pages
...beaiity and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill. ... It will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company." In his triumphant optimism he even includes "law, primary assemblies, and commerce" among the activities... | |
 | 1907 - 732 pages
...raise to divine use, the railroad, the insurance office, our law, our commerce, the galvanic hattery, the electric jar, the prism, and the chemist's retort, in which we seek now only an economical use." To CM Bardu-ell, Superintendent: Believing that the success of my work in Aurora depended very greatly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...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,...prism, and the chemist's retort, in which we seek now jnly an economical use. Is upt the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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... | |
 | Warren Edwin Brokaw - 1927 - 396 pages
...produce, and grows by what it feeds on, it becomes the dominant power — the power most imitated. "Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs...mechanical works, to mills, railways, and machinery, the affect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?" said RW Emerson. Whatever tends to enable... | |
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