 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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...with a voice of lofty cheer"; "In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful"; and Spontaneous Beauty 'will raise to a divine use the railroad, the insurance office, the joint-stock :ompany." All these statements are possible in the provincial, religio-mystic, moral-nature as art,... | |
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