 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 540 pages
...build up Nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of a tree puts forth new branches through the pores of the old. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God." In this statement we seem to have a recognition of pure Idealism, after the manner of Fichte, rather... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1888 - 312 pages
...that spirit, that is the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old." 'Thus nature, the individual consciousness, and the universal consciousness, or God, form a sort of... | |
 | 1901 - 778 pages
...fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains and draws at his need inexhaustible power." "Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. My children... | |
 | James Mann Campbell - 1889 - 284 pages
...creatures are sustained in being. " As the plant upon the earth, so man rests upon the bosom of God ; is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws at his need inexhaustible power." * There is in Pantheism a great measure of truth. We have only to make the Pantheist's Soul of the... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1891 - 214 pages
...meant when he said, " The Supreme Being does not build up Nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves." That which was fixed, stable, cast in permanent forms forever, was suddenly annihilated by a revelation... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. " Man may have access to the entire mind of the Creator, himself become a "creator in the finite."... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power." Man may have access to the entire mind of the Creator, himself become a "creator in the finite." "As... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power." Man may have access to the entire mind of the Creator, himself become a "creator in the finite." "As... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power." Man may have access to the entire mind of the Creator, himself become a "creator in the finite." "As... | |
 | 1904 - 688 pages
...that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up Nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old. . . . Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold the absolute nature of justice and truth,... | |
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Therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old. 
