 They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 247by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 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...be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live them from the Devil.' " "No law," he adds, "can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. Good and... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...of the Daimonisches", lesen wir im Tagebuch (JMN V, p. 318), und im Essay "Self-Reüance" heißt es: "If I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." (CW II, p. 30) 83 Wahr, Emerson and Goethe, p. 127. Wir werden allerdings sehen, daß die von Wahr... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 pages
...determined by the wild. Thoreau at Walden would reply to the moralist as Emerson does in "Self-Reliance": "'if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" (CW, II, 30). But in "Higher Laws," the good is something other than the wild, something even opposed... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...to the challenge that unknown to him his beliefs may do the devil's work, he responded by asserting, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (CW 2:30). Emerson found justice in the clarification and accountability of one's situation and not... | |
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