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... phrenologists . Theoretic kid- nappers and slave - drivers , they esteem each man the victim of another , who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being ; and , by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the ...
... phrenologists . Theoretic kid- nappers and slave - drivers , they esteem each man the victim of another , who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being ; and , by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the ...
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... phrenology and palmistry . But taking timely warning , and leaving many things unsaid on this topic , let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature , natura natu- rans , the quick cause before which all forms flee as the ...
... phrenology and palmistry . But taking timely warning , and leaving many things unsaid on this topic , let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature , natura natu- rans , the quick cause before which all forms flee as the ...
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... phrenologists and neurologists , are of ideal use . They are good indications . Homoeopathy is insig nificant as an art of healing , but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time . So with Mesmerism ...
... phrenologists and neurologists , are of ideal use . They are good indications . Homoeopathy is insig nificant as an art of healing , but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time . So with Mesmerism ...
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... phrenology , and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles ! Oth- ers assailed particular vocations , as that of the law- yer , that of the merchant , of the manufacturer , of the clergyman , of the scholar . Others attacked ...
... phrenology , and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles ! Oth- ers assailed particular vocations , as that of the law- yer , that of the merchant , of the manufacturer , of the clergyman , of the scholar . Others attacked ...
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53 psl. - ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of
253 psl. - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are
254 psl. - all. A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself^ but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let
161 psl. - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast^ And all is clear from east to west. Spirit that lurks each form within Beckons to spirit of its kin ; Self-kindled every atom glows, And hints the future which it owes.
74 psl. - whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an
70 psl. - poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE. Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all
45 psl. - Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune
40 psl. - gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer ; then in the Middle Age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our
45 psl. - douds or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, — there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldst walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition
251 psl. - becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the souL In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we