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... Universe , and his duty and destiny there , that is in all cases the primary thing for him , and creatively determines all the rest . That is his re- ligion ; or , it may be , his mere scepticism and no - religion : the manner it is in ...
... Universe , and his duty and destiny there , that is in all cases the primary thing for him , and creatively determines all the rest . That is his re- ligion ; or , it may be , his mere scepticism and no - religion : the manner it is in ...
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... Universe : all this looks like an incredible fable . Nevertheless it is a clear fact that they did it . Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships , misbeliefs , men , made as we are , did actually hold by , and live at home in ...
... Universe : all this looks like an incredible fable . Nevertheless it is a clear fact that they did it . Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships , misbeliefs , men , made as we are , did actually hold by , and live at home in ...
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... Universe . Which agrees , add they , with a primary law of human nature , still everywhere observably at work , though in less important things , That what a man feels intensely , he struggles to speak - out of him , to see represented ...
... Universe . Which agrees , add they , with a primary law of human nature , still everywhere observably at work , though in less important things , That what a man feels intensely , he struggles to speak - out of him , to see represented ...
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... Universe ; and all Religions are symbols of that , altering always as that alters : but it seems to me a radical perversion , and even inversion , of the business , to put that forward as the origin and moving cause , when it was rather ...
... Universe ; and all Religions are symbols of that , altering always as that alters : but it seems to me a radical perversion , and even inversion , of the business , to put that forward as the origin and moving cause , when it was rather ...
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... Universe , Nature , or the like , -and so with a name dismiss it from us . To the wild deep- hearted man all was yet new , not veiled under names or formulas ; it stood naked , flashing - in on him there , beautiful , awful ...
... Universe , Nature , or the like , -and so with a name dismiss it from us . To the wild deep- hearted man all was yet new , not veiled under names or formulas ; it stood naked , flashing - in on him there , beautiful , awful ...
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Page 107 - There is but one temple in the Universe,' says the devout Novalis, ' and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
Page 3 - But the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others) ; the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest.
Page 66 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 81 - ... whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and lifelong unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all converted into indignation : an implacable indignation ; slow, equable, silent, like that of a god ! The eye too, it...
Page 99 - Without hands a man might have feet, and could still walk : but, consider it, — without morality, intellect were impossible for him ; a thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all ! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it : that is, be virtuously related to it.
Page 206 - Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there, each in his department ; silently thinking, silently working ; whom no Morning Newspaper makes mention of! They are the salt of the Earth. A country that has none or few of these is in a bad way.
Page 105 - ... really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all the Nations of Englishmen, a thousand years hence.
Page 45 - Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow, sublime reconciliation ; oldest choral melody as of the heart of mankind ; — so soft, and great ; as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.
Page 86 - It is as an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him: Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and then in Dante it seems a natural condensation, spontaneous to the man. One smiting word; and then there is silence, nothing more said. His silence is more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter: cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire. Plutus, the blustering giant, collapses at Virgil's...
Page 45 - I call that, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. One feels, indeed, as if it were not Hebrew ; such a noble universality, different from noble patriotism or sectarianism, reigns in it. A noble Book ; all men's Book ! It is our first, oldest statement of the never-ending Problem, — man's destiny and God's ways with him here in this earth.