The Teachers of Emerson

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Sturgis & Walton, 1910 - 325 páginas
This book is about the influence of Greek philosophy on Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. John S. Harrison argues that Emerson primarily drew his inspiration from Greek thought and not German/Eastern teachings.

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Página 83 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs
Página 17 - Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a
Página 239 - Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang! the sun and moon; from man the sun, from woman the moon. The laws of his mind, the periods of his actions externized themselves into day and night, into
Página 101 - the true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe' contrives to throw itself into every point. If >„ , the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity,.' so the repulsion; if the force, so the
Página 270 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings—
Página 100 - they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting, whaling, war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat, and engage my respect as examples of its presence and impure action. I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth. \Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right~' Nature suffers nothing to remain in her
Página 120 - Our life," he says, "is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
Página 283 - The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England, at the present time, is, that they are not new, but the very oldest thoughts cast into the mould of these new times . . . What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in 1842.
Página 93 - Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
Página 53 - Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. "Thou in thy narrow banks are pent; The stream I love unbounded goes Through flood and sea and firmament, Through light, through life, it forward flows. "I see the

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