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... madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is
composed of Nature and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is
separate from us 2 INTRODUCTION .
... madness , dreams , beasts , sex . Philosophically considered , the universe is
composed of Nature and the Soul . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is
separate from us 2 INTRODUCTION .
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This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like
its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only
use of nature which all men apprehend . The misery of man appears like childish
...
This , of course , is a benefit which is temporary and mediate , not ultimate , like
its service to the soul . Yet although low , it is perfect in its kind , and is the only
use of nature which all men apprehend . The misery of man appears like childish
...
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The world thus ' exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I
call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks
beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the ...
The world thus ' exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I
call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks
beauty . Beauty , in its largest and profoundest sense , is one expression for the ...
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Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein ,
as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and
shine . This universal soul , he calls Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but
we ...
Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life , wherein ,
as in a firmament , the natures of Justice , Truth , Love , Freedom , arise and
shine . This universal soul , he calls Reason : it is not mine , or thine , or his , but
we ...
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A new interest surprises us , whilst , under the view now suggested , we
contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects ; since " every object
rightly seen , unlocks a new faculty of the soul . ” That which was unconscious
truth , becomes ...
A new interest surprises us , whilst , under the view now suggested , we
contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects ; since " every object
rightly seen , unlocks a new faculty of the soul . ” That which was unconscious
truth , becomes ...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.