...Christianity," " Evolution of Morals," "Social Ideals and Social Progress," etc. Cloth, gilt top, $1.00. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." — EMEKSOX. Contents: 1. The Unity of Life. 2. The Temple of the Holy Spirit. 3. Cleanliness and Godliness....

...reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.17 Environmental Values to the Dial, a transcendental periodical that both he and Emerson...

...durchlaufenen Kultur- und Bewußtseinsformen: The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Pathos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the sense and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. (p. 13)...

...Americans' fundamental attachment to the natural. In his famous essay on "Nature," Emerson rhapsodizes: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria . . . broad noon shall be my England" (Essays, 43). We have no need of these traditions; we may find...

...invincible. It should be so perfect that nothing better can be imagined and nothing worse can touch it. "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." This comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who aimed for exuberant vitality in everything. No one else has...

..."Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." When I first read the ensuing summary of how Emerson proposed (as Thoreau will put it in Walden) to...

...active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire [breathe in unison] with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!...pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria [power]; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos [myth], and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall...

...he had worked his way back to life. To live is work, but my father would have agreed with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nearly forty years before, in 1954, my father had been hunting white-tailed deer in the Black Hills...

...half a lifetime's maturing in a few pregnant lines. "How does nature deify us," he says, "with a few cheap elements. Give me health and a day, and I will...and moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of fairie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding, and night shall be my Germany...

...said, "to the sunnier side of doubt." Sensitized by the sufferers of the world, we side with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." We find whiners— those who say the porridge is too hot or too cold, the chair too hard or too soft—hard...