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
| Paul Jay - 1997 - 236 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...retort, in which we seek now only an economical use. (440) All these manifestations of material, local culture have a use for Emerson beyond the sheerly... | |
| Ebenezer Howard - 2004 - 210 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—to mills, railways cind machinery—tho effect of the mercenary impulses which these works... | |
| Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...road-side, in the shop and mill. Proceeding frorn a religious heart it will raise to a divine use of the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock...retort; in which we seek now only an economical use. [...] The boat at St Petersburg which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.... | |
| Klaus Benesch - 2009 - 274 pages
...unity of nature (which transcendentalists believed to comprise the material world as well) will we "raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance...retort; in which we seek now only an economical use." 51 This passage makes apparent that Emerson's view of technology exceeds its restrictive definition... | |
| Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 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...retort, in which we seek now only an economical use. ("Art," ECW 2: 218) The modernists went a step beyond Emerson, a step which made all the difference;... | |
| Anahita Teymourian-Pesch - 2006 - 288 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, [...], in which we seek now only an economical use. Durch ein „religious heart" werden die Dinge... | |
| Eric Wertheimer - 2006 - 220 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...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... | |
| Françoise Choay - 2011 - 312 pages
...and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the fields and roadside, in the shop and mill. Proceeding from a religious heart it will raise to a divine use...assemblies, our commerce, the galvanic battery , the electricjar, the prism , and thechemist's retort; in which we seek now only an economical use", RW... | |
| Christopher J. Windolph - 2007 - 213 pages
...as a pattern-seeker, the Poet is at home in the world of science. In addition to finding beauty in "the galvanic battery, the electric jar, the prism, and the chemist's retort" (CollW, 15. Neufeldt, "Science of Power," 330, 342. 2:218), the Poet makes use of what Neufeldt calls... | |
| John Francis Waller - 1857 - 228 pages
...from a religions heart it will raise to a divine nse the railroad, the insnrance office, onr law, onr commerce, the galvanic battery, the electric jar, the prism, and the chemist's retort, in which we now seek only an economical nse. The end and aim of life is not to assert onrselves, bnt by individnal... | |
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