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" 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 343
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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Alph Waldo Emerson

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...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

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...
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The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed, Volume 5

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,...
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The Library Magazine, Volume 3

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...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 74

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...
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Essays: First Series

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...
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General ..., Volume 41

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...
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Essays: First Series

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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The Crank: An Unconventional Magazine, Volume 4

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...
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Right and Riches, Volume 25

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...
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