Emerson: A Statement of New England Transcendentalism as Expressed in the Philosophy of Its Chief ExponentThe University, 1917 - 110 Seiten This book is an early 20th century analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism in his time. Henry David Gray, who was a Professor of English at Stanford University, discusses Emerson's philosophy, his ethics and his contribution to sociology. |
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alism American appearance attitude beauty become belief in intuition Boston Brook Farm Cabot cause Channing's Coleridge consciousness Dial divine Emer Emerson's optimism Emerson's philosophy Emerson's thought England Transcendentalism essay essence essential esthetic eternal ethical evolution existence explanation expression fact faculties faith feel felt final Frederick Henry Hedge freedom fundamental genius German German idealism give Hedge human idealism ideas individual insistence instinct intellect interpretation James Freeman Clarke Journal Kant later laws lecture literary logical Margaret Fuller matter means merely moral mystical never Over-Soul Parker perfect philos Plato poet poetic point of view Princeton Review problem pure quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson reality reason reform religion religious says scendentalism Schelling seems sense side soul speak spirit statement theism Theodore Parker theory things thinking tion Transcendent Transcendental Club Transcendentalists truth Unitarianism unity virtue whole wholly William Ellery Channing word writes
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Seite 55 - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this co1poreal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Seite 54 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Seite 41 - A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Seite 33 - Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me. Be it what it may, it is ideal to me, so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
Seite 58 - Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself" and the modern precept, "Study nature,
Seite 57 - The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
Seite 27 - All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having. I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds, which I dearly love, and allow the most to the will of man ; but I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter, and I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
Seite 54 - 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 background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Seite 98 - 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.
Seite 34 - It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon, man and woman, house and trade.