SEED-GRAIN FOR THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. A COMPILATION BY MRS. ANNA C. LOWELL, AUTHOR OF 'THEORY OF TEACHING,''THE WORLD AS IT IS, AND AS IT APPEARS, VOLUME I. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. M.DCCC.LVI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by MRS. ANNA C. LOWELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. 492 291452 1856 vol THE business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. How often one finds in life, that an idea, which one may have met in youth, made visible in words, but also veiled in them, and which in this shape has haunted one with a vague sense of something divine, but dim and inscrutable, becomes, at the call of conscience, or when real events and beings give it its fit body, the open aspect of a messenger from Heaven, and the familiar friend of all one's after days. Sterling. We write from aspiration and antagonism as well as from experience. Emerson. |