 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
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...have found Emerson, at one and the same time, too empirical in his derivation of what is morally right ("No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. . . . the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" — CW 2:30)... | |
 | Brian Roberts - 2000 - 366 pages
..."Self Reliance," declaring that he preferred to live "from within," by impulse, even base impulse: "if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil."*1 Other writers took readers across urban borders, plumbing the depths of urban demimondes... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 pages
...of the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Inner human nature, lodged in the individual, has even displaced religion. The first romantic trait... | |
 | Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 pages
...creative."53 When warned of this danger by a friend, Emerson claims to have replied, "'They [his intuitions] do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's...are but names very readily transferable to that or this."54 In a certain sense, my discussion of dualist and organic theories has come full circle because... | |
 | Timothy G. McCarthy, Timothy McCarthy, Sean C. Stidd - 2001 - 306 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." VIII. (a) My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...this essay: "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within"; "... 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"; "... the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it"; "I shun father... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
..."Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner ... is the healthy attitude of human... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Junius "The good need fear no law; it is their safety, and the bad man's awe." — Philip Massinger "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." — Emerson "The reason of the law is the law." — Sir Walter Scott "Good laws make it easier to do... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...that his inner impulses may be from below, not from above, and remembered being prompted to reply: "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.") He hopes it is somewhat better than whim at last — for as with prophecy you can only know the true... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 pages
...I to do with the sacredness of tradition, 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 be to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" 24 If Emerson was... | |
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