...points, and all history is but the epoch of one degradation. 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...

...rejuvenation, a second childhood. In his first book, Nature (1836), Ralph Waldo Emerson called infancy the "perpetual messiah, which comes into the arms...fallen men and pleads with them to return to paradise." Bronson Alcott was even more ecstatic: "Childhood hath Saved me!" he once exclaimed.22 It was Alcott...

...before self-consciousness appears and they come to address themselves as I. "Infancy," said Emerson, "is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise"—that is, to regain unity with the larger I, "the Light that lighteth every man that cometh...

...the deer run away from us ; the bear and the tiger rend us. ... 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. Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. At present he applies to...

...to my researcher, MARILYNNE Pt.SHER, and my assistant, jEAVVE RANDALL. Man is a god in ruins. . . . Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. —RALPH W\i DO EMERSON, NATURL PART ONE CHAPTER t TROUBLESOME MESA, COLORADO AUTUMN 2008 A Catholic...

...Weltbegegnung im weiteren Verlauf des Essays Nature. Sie gipfeln schließlich in einer messianischen Verehrung. „Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." 255 Kindheit avanciert zum Synonym für freie Interaktion zwischen der menschlichen Seele und Gott....

...to the magnitude of his claims and the power of his rhetoric: "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."65 Of course, this is strikingly close to Novalis's aphorism, translated in Carlyle's essay,...

...life, he is trying to discredit the wish to live for centuries: "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...years. It is kept in check by death and infancy." (pp. 45-46) I must mention, however, that at one point Emerson looks with a sympathetic eye on the...

...and eternity link inextricably in a mythic pattern expressed within a parable. As Emerson reminds us, "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...fallen men and pleads with them to return to paradise." With every birth something of eternity is made incarnate in time. In this sense, not only does Jesus'...

...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 the immortal as gendy as we awake from dreams. Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations...