 They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after...  The Revolt of Modern Youth - Page 339by Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 354 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...of the Daimonisches", lesen wir im Tagebuch (JMN V, p. 318), und im Essay "Self-Reüance" heißt es: "If I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." (CW II, p. 30) 83 Wahr, Emerson and Goethe, p. 127. Wir werden allerdings sehen, daß die von Wahr... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...to the challenge that unknown to him his beliefs may do the devil's work, he responded by asserting, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (CW 2:30). Emerson found justice in the clarification and accountability of one's situation and not... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - 368 pages
...tensest images offer an implicit critique of Emerson's blithe announcement in "Self-Reliance" that " 'if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 pages
...determined by the wild. Thoreau at Walden would reply to the moralist as Emerson does in "Self-Reliance": "'if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" (CW, II, 30). But in "Higher Laws," the good is something... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...direction, hence, in one sense, no path (plottable from outside the journey). (From "Self-Reliance" : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." The idea is that attempting not to live so would not protect the world from the fact of you, probably... | |
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pages
...1 was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrine of the church. On my saying, "What have I to do with...seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, 1 will live then from the Devil."1 In effect what Septimius is doing as he responds to his adviser,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 1993 - 180 pages
...being recognized as one of God's adopted - declaring, in the formula Emerson made bold to appropriate, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil"; and most suitably, perhaps, if that tortured "I" could share the misery Dickinson called that "white... | |
 | Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 pages
...89). argues that the impulses within him "may be from below, not from above." And Emerson answers: "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | E. Miller Budick - 1998 - 268 pages
...his model of what Cavell describes as his "aversive thinking" - the essay entitled "SelfReliance": On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
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