 | 1916 - 548 pages
...most beautiful desire of our soul." Maeterlinck would subscribe readily to Emerson's confidence that "when we have broken our God of tradition, and ceased...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence." To Kant religion was one kind of truth — a truth "theoretically problematical but practically certain."... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 130 pages
...fathers held" that he means. It is this conception of God that he repudiates with so much lofty scorn. "When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence" (II, 274). Parker felt that Emerson was always a theist, though his vagueness in the use of terms laid... | |
 | Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 pages
...influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment. When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased...power of growth to a new infinity on every side." Also in the Upanishads we read: "The knower of Brahman (the Supreme) becomes like unto Brahman." When... | |
 | Augustine Matthias Bellwald - 1922 - 300 pages
...; yet forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. . . . When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased...power of growth to a new infinity on every side." s We are now enabled to give a more connected account of Christian Science philosophy. Its often repeated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments ! When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased...every side. It inspires in man an infallible trust. (Tie has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true, aiid may in that thought easily... | |
 | Stephen Tapscott - 1984 - 284 pages
...grows as the Self it defines grows outward, regulated by its own laws in that process Emerson calls die "infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side." (That is, Whitman's form recalls the concept of self Emerson proposes in his essay "Circles"; Emerson's... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...and "Over-Soul" in stanzas 14-15 and 17. 22. Cf. the following passage from Emerson's "Over-Soul": "When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence" (W, 2: 292). 23. Cited in McPherson, The Struggle for Equality, 65. 24. Conway, The Rejected Stone,... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
...place, effacing the scars of our mistakes & disappointments. When we have lost our God of tradition & ceased from our God of rhetoric then may God fire the heart with his presence" (JMN 4:342; CW 2:173). Like the divine catastrophes that were believed to have founded the different... | |
 | Michael Caputo - 2000 - 248 pages
...the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments! When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence. IF HE [MAN] WOULD KNOW WHAT THE GREAT GOD SPEAKETH, HE MUST "GO INTO HIS CLOSET AND SHUT THE DOOR,"... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...discrediting vested theological interests, he did not mean to give up on God, however. He trusted that "When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence" ( W 2 : 173). For "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions" (CW 6:... | |
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When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. 
