...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide...

...from below," Whitman would respond as cheerfully as did the elder sage : "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." However Whitman is more inclined to deny the validity of the terms good and bad altogether and would...

...creed or rule. 2 Undying fame. 3 Justify. 4 Vote of approval. such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred...that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all...

...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up - one part of it by itself....

...course, can be committed against him. The sole authority is man's own nature. " No law," he says, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong...

...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness...

...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness...

...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness...

...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 then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...

...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." IV It would, indeed, be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived...