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... moral . Through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter a subtle spirit bends all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed ...
... moral . Through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter a subtle spirit bends all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are changed ...
Side 13
... moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
... moral vigour is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licen- tiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his ...
Side 18
... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man - perhaps older - these creatures have kept their council beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . What ...
... morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man - perhaps older - these creatures have kept their council beside him , and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other . What ...
Side 40
... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
... moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk . No greater men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion , and ...
Side 49
... moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspirations ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . " It is in the world , and the world was made by it . " Justice is not postponed ...
... moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspirations ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . " It is in the world , and the world was made by it . " Justice is not postponed ...
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Side 24 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Side 139 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; — is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Side 39 - Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought, and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also.
Side 23 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Side 40 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Side 32 - When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Side 47 - An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.
Side 27 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Side 30 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Side 28 - Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent.