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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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The Chautauquan, Volume 36

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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education

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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

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...
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Equitable Society and how to Create it

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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Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Life, Genius, and Writings: A Biographical Sketch ...

Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 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 Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 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...
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Doctrine and Experience: Essays in American Philosophy

Vincent G. Potter - 1988 - 292 pages
...character, that is, as a manifestation of the divine. Emerson actually pictured the time when mankind will raise to a divine use, the railroad, the insurance...retort, in which we seek now only an economical use. . . . When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements...
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The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History

Murray Krieger - 1993 - 306 pages
...unexpected ending, the material modes of appropriation have priority over poetry as it was summoned "to raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock company." But if, again, the performative of transcendentalism founders, the reason is not wholly one of ideology,...
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