Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself, Volume 2

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1888
 

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Page 236 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 461 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat, That can thy light relume.
Page 233 - For, in fact, I say the degree of vision that dwells in a man is a correct measure of the man. If called to define Shakspeare's faculty, I should say superiority of Intellect, and think I had included all under that.
Page 133 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 463 - It is worth noting too that this virtue was not natural to Prometheus, but adventitious, and came by help from without ; for it is not a thing which any inborn and natural fortitude can attain to ; it comes from beyond the ocean, it is received and brought to us from the Sun ; for it comes of Wisdom, which is as the Sun, and of meditation upon the inconstancy and fluctuations of human life...
Page 204 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 383 - In these researches there is one lesson which cannot escape the profound observer. Every portion of the material universe is pervaded by the same laws of mechanical action which are incorporated into the very constitution of the human mind. The solution of the problem of this universal presence of such a spiritual element is obvious and necessary. THERE is ONE GOD, AND SCIENCE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF HlM.
Page 460 - The youth puts off the illusions of the child, the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth ; proceeding thence, puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul.
Page 233 - Then again, we hear of a man's ' intellectual nature,' and of his ' moral nature,' as if these again were divisible, and existed apart. Necessities of language do perhaps prescribe such forms of utterance ; we must speak, I am aware, in that way, if we are to speak at all. But words ought not to harden into things for us. It seems to me, our apprehension of this matter is, for most part, radically falsified thereby.
Page 147 - Tis strange, that death should sing.— I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death ; And, from the organ pipe of frailty, sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

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