 What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - 2004 - 372 pages
...On my saying. "What have I to do with the sarredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from ahove." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2005 - 566 pages
...Quaker's "inner light or still small voice," for example, lies behind the moralist's insistence that "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." "The universe," as he says elsewhere, "is the externalization of the soul." Near the end of his book,... | |
 | Peggy Rosenthal - 2005 - 320 pages
...church. On my saying "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested — "But these impulses may be...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. A Renaissance character might have made such a blasphemous self-assertion, setting his own sacredness... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses maybe from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. 1 This pointed moral challenge to the idea of self-reliance is given a still more central and powerful... | |
 | Allan Lloyd-Smith - 2004 - 209 pages
...Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960) p. 42. 30. But Emerson also could say, in "Experience": "but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." 31. Frontier Gothic, David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne B. Karpinski, eds. (London and Toronto:... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...within," and that, while his "impulses" seem to him to come not "from below," but "from above," even if "I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (E&L 261-62). Given his equation of infinitude with the individual, and the categorical imperative... | |
 | Kristina Nelson - 2005 - 163 pages
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 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested - 'But these impulses may be from...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." 34. Oeuvres completes, 824. Cf. III. 5; 956: "I am content with less praise provided that I am more... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 pages
...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested — 'But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil'" (CW 1:30). In this passage, Emerson shifts the foundations of duty from tradition to the self. The... | |
 | James Robertson - 2006 - 356 pages
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