 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
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." <I No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature s* <I Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested, — 'But these impulses may be from below, and not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me...sacred to me, but that of my nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to that or this, — the only right is what is after my constitution;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 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...replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if 1 »" the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Emerson's writings are strewn with pregnant sentences like these, sentences full of enthusiasm, of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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