...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...

...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...

...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:...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...she put the receiver to her mouth. "I'm going to prove you are the liar, Carl." not from above . . . but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson THE RUSE It was five days before the winter solstice. December 16, 2004, started...

...republic: "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members," and "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Therefore, "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."42 The individualist keeps his distance and...

...different ways. Emerson writes, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" and "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," but Stanton writes of "the immeasurable solitude of self." And so it ever must be in the conflicting...

...indicates. "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...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" For Emerson, "sacredness" was now a matter of internal disposition and personal perception. He believed...