The Man of Letters
ON bravely through the sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we have our* So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man ; When Duty whispers low 'Thou must,' The youth…
Volume X, Lectures and Biographical Sketches, collects some of the most interesting examples of Emerson’s thought. His lecture on "Demonology," for example, warns against what he calls the "low curiosity" of the paranormal. "Education" is of great interest to teachers and the lecture has been used often by reformers in the field. The address entitled "Thoreau" was delivered at the funeral of Henry David Thoreau in May, 1862, and is the finest reminiscence we have of Emerson’s great friend.
ON bravely through the sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we have our* So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man ; When Duty whispers low 'Thou must,' The youth…
ASCENDING thorough just degrees To a consummate holiness, As angel blind to trespass done, And bleaching all souls like the sun. THE PREACHER In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first, not in argument and…
THESE rules were writ in human heart By Him who built the day ; The columns of the universe Not firmer based than they. Thou shalt not try To plant thy shrivelled pedantry On the shoulders of the sky. …
WHEN wrath and terror changed Jove's regal port And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short. For Art, for Music overthrilled, The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled THE SUPERLATIVE. THE doctrine of temperance is one of many degrees. It is…
With the key of the secret he marches faster From strength to strength, and for night brings day, While classes or tribes too weak to master The flowing conditions of life, give way. EDUCATION. A NEW degree of…
Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift, Sit still, and Truth is near ; Suddenly it will uplift Your eyelids to the sphere : Wait a little, you shall see The portraiture of things to be. For what need I…
"MORE servants wait on man Than he'11 take notice of." GEORGE HERBERT. EVER the Rock of Ages melts Into the mineral air, To be the quarry whence is built Thought and its mansions fair. PERPETUAL FORCES. THE hero…
But if thou do thy best, Without remission, without rest, And invite the sunbeam, And abhor to feign or seem Even to those who thee should love And thy behavior approve ; If thou go in thine own likeness, –…
THE name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry, and deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are…