 A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.  Works - Seite 74von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 Seiten
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? 'A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. '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... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 Seiten
...centuries are points, and all history is but the epoch of one degradation... A man is a god in ruins... Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...paradise. Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents... The laws of his... | |
 | Jane Silverman Van Buren - 1989 - 242 Seiten
...ultimate spirituality might be achieved through the innocence of children, explained the new messiah. "Infancy is the perpetual messiah, which comes into...arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."14 As Alcott believed the human mind to be a limited part of the infinite mind, he proposed... | |
 | Jane Silverman Van Buren - 1989 - 248 Seiten
...ultimate spirituality might be achieved through the innocence of children, explained the new messiah. "Infancy is the perpetual messiah, which comes into...arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."14 As Alcott believed the human mind to be a limited part of the infinite mind, he proposed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 Seiten
...an ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? 'A man is a god in ruins When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. '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... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1991 - 340 Seiten
...then draw our own conclusions for the practice of translation: "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise [there's the reversional aim]. "Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 Seiten
...of Immortality" 1807). Here is Emerson in a yet more exalted strain: "A man is a god in ruins. . . . Infancy is the perpetual Messiah which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise" ("Nature" 1844; Plotz 1979). One might say that the romantics are intoxicated with the neotenic idea.... | |
 | David Patterson - 1992 - 200 Seiten
...only the child can confront the man with the movement of return. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once put it, "infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return" (220). Thus bearing the child, the man bears his own soul. This is the miracle wrought by the child... | |
 | Deepak Chopra - 1991 - 228 Seiten
...while he keeps company with me, I can believe I am a titan: "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams." It has been a long time since such thoughts were prized, however. Wake up to immortality? No, there... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 Seiten
...11:44-48. 100. CW 1:43; as for evidence of Wordsworthian influence: "Infancy," says Emerson's Orphic poet, "is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise" (ibid., 42). 101. Ibid., IV: 15. 102. Ibid., 19. 103. Ibid., 20. 104. See Packer, Emerson's Fall 113ff.,... | |
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