...traditions of man and nature wliioh a certain poet sang to me." — "A man is a god in ruins." — " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated...filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from. Mm sprang the sun and raoon; from man the son, from woman the moon."—But he no longer fills the mere...

...is otherwise a "god in ruins," says Emerson's Orphic Poet. "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise" (E&L 45-46). Taking the opposed pairings in toto — on the one hand, imitation, books, quotation,...

...priceless gift — a gift that Benjamin, too, never forgets: "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."169 Benjamin attached great philosophical and allegorical significance to the experience...

...Childhood." Emerson also stated the theme in his proclamation of infancy as the "perpetual Messiah which comes into the arms of fallen men and pleads with them to return to paradise." 5 For Plato, children exemplified untamed appetite, the soul out of balance. Aristotle concurred. For...

...will and idea. First, though, there was the bad news of shrinkage. "'Man,'" lamented Emerson's poet, "'is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and...currents. Out from him sprang the sun and moon.'" Now, however, things were grossly different, and "'having made for himself this huge shell, his waters...

...speaking in Nature through the voice of his "Orphic poet," "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." 71 The diminution of ego-consciousness, of arid rationalism, results in humankind's liberation from...

...incongruous with the eternal glories of childlikeness, for "infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." (Emerson 77) 64 CHAPTER 6 THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF ...(now the ears of my ears awake and now the...

...leveling of social ranks. 27. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." See Emerson, Nature, in Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Stephen Whicher (Cambridge, Mass.:...

...nothing less than a redemptive function. 'Infancy', observed Emerson, 'is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men and pleads with them to return to paradise.'10 Thomas Cooper Gotch's painting The Child Enthroned (1894) draws on the iconography of...

...of "Nature," there is considerable interest in the sentence "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise" and some exchange of comments like beautiful, truthful, dry, and foolish on Emerson's essay (213)....