The Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholarAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 |
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... relation of the man of genius to the people comes from American institutions . Here the greatest man stands nearest to the people , and without a mediator speaks to them face to face . This is a new thing : in the classic nations ...
... relation of the man of genius to the people comes from American institutions . Here the greatest man stands nearest to the people , and without a mediator speaks to them face to face . This is a new thing : in the classic nations ...
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... relation of the scholar to the people , and the direct intimacy of his intercourse with men , there comes a new modification of his duty ; he is to represent the higher facts of human consciousness to the people , and express them in ...
... relation of the scholar to the people , and the direct intimacy of his intercourse with men , there comes a new modification of his duty ; he is to represent the higher facts of human consciousness to the people , and express them in ...
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... the man . A writer who should bear the same relation to the English mind as Emerson to ours , for the same reason would be more acceptable here than at home . Emerson is neither a sectarian nor a 60 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
... the man . A writer who should bear the same relation to the English mind as Emerson to ours , for the same reason would be more acceptable here than at home . Emerson is neither a sectarian nor a 60 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
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... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by a revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life ...
... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by a revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life ...
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... relations ; whilst they must make painful corrections , and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . " " The genius of humanity is the right point of view of his- tory . . . For a time our teachers serve us personally , as metres ...
... relations ; whilst they must make painful corrections , and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error . " " The genius of humanity is the right point of view of his- tory . . . For a time our teachers serve us personally , as metres ...
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Page 159 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 71 - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page 92 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 77 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. 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?
Page 418 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 92 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 94 - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
Page 59 - tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 414 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 71 - In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.