 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...which form it warms, like our household fires, all the familie? and associations of men, and makes societ) possible. A certain tendency to insanity has always... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Mysticism - 1906 - 258 pages
...inspiration, to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it CONTEMPLATION AND ACTIVITY 33 warms, like our household fires, all the families...associations of men, and makes society possible." But this glow rapidly becomes extinct unless it kindles a flame in the will and intellect. All mysticism... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Mysticism - 1907 - 256 pages
...enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which...associations of men, and makes society possible." But this glow rapidly becomes extinct unless it kindles a flame in the will and intellect. All mysticism... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the. state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been ' blasted with excess of light.' The trances of Socrates, the ' union ' of Plotinus,... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - United States - 1910 - 228 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...emotion, in which form it warms, like our household flres, all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible. . . . The trances of Socrates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1911 - 196 pages
...than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. Intellect. — n— A CERTAIN tendency to insanity has always attended...of light." The trances of Socrates; the "union" of Plotinus;the vision of Porphyry; the conversion of Paul; the aurora of Behmen; the convulsions of George... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the... | |
 | Swami Paramananda - Vedanta - 1918 - 92 pages
...peculiarity as insanity. Emerson speaks of this also. "A certain tendency to insanity," he writes, "has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been 'blasted with excess of light.' The trances of Socrates, the 'union' of Plotinus, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the... | |
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A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light. 
