 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
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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 from...Devil." (No law can be sacred to me but that of my naturej Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what... | |
 | 1924 - 1042 pages
...that this unconscious may be full of evil instead of good; Mr. Emerson has already replied to them: "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." But the youth of Kansas are not bothered by that possibility ; they find no difficulty in believing... | |
 | 1938 - 724 pages
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 | Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 374 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...the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." I commend that passage from Emerson to the consideration of anybody who finds an incongruity in Jerry... | |
 | Lewis Mumford - 1926 - 294 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...No law can be sacred to me but that of my Nature." "Life only avails, not the having lived." There is the kernel of the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance:... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...vDW 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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' Ne»<teiw {run he sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very reaany transferable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...suggested, — "But these impulses may be from elow, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to te to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then om the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of ly nature. Good and bad are but names very readily... | |
 | Lloyd R. Morris - 1927 - 428 pages
...man must be a nonconformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. ... If I am the devil's child, I will live then from the...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." This was exciting doctrine. It made you the center and final arbiter of your world. It made you self-reliant... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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 below, not from above." I reБО plied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from... | |
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