 | Richard Orr Curry, Lawrence B. Goodheart - 1991 - 292 pages
...readers: Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent...the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearance, swine, spiders, snakes, pests, mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish. . . . The advancing... | |
 | David Dawson - 2023 - 364 pages
...Mimesis Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent...revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. . . . The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,—a dominion such as now is... | |
 | Veronica Makowsky - 1993 - 180 pages
...comprised of reformed individuals: "As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent...snakes, pests, mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish." 13 Glaspell shared this belief about the means to social reform, but for her it was more a hope than... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1994 - 528 pages
...humanity. And the goal toward which all things moved was a perfectionist one, for Emerson as for Thoreau: So fast will disagreeable appearances, swine, spiders,...nature, the sun shall dry up and the wind exhale. In a more perfect future, spirit will establish its dominion over flesh, the mind over the body, the... | |
 | Geoffrey M. Sill - 1994 - 340 pages
...of the ideal) in light of the future makes the present vanish. The echo of Emerson is unmistakable: "A correspondent revolution in things will attend...mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish; they are temporary and will be seen no more" (Emerson, "Nature" 56). Both Emerson and Whitman take revolution to mean something... | |
 | Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 pages
...spiders, snakes, pests, madhouses, prisons, enemies, vanish; they are temporary and shall no more be seen. The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale" (Complete Works r.j6}. Blake expresses the same sentiments. He does not deny that disagreeable facts... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 1997 - 326 pages
...these bonds. The ease with which Emerson can command us to "build therefore your own world," so that "a correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit," also accounts for his curious association of the abolition of the slave-trade with a variety of "miracles"... | |
 | Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 pages
...sense of the achievement of a completely new order of things.17 What else, when we are promised that "disagreeable appearances, swine, spiders, snakes,...enemies, vanish; they are temporary and shall be no more" (48)? And yet, when we understand "build your own world" properly, as an exhortation to the highest... | |
 | Michael West - 2000 - 546 pages
...demanding a reformist messiah. Reading this passage, transparent eyeballs were teased by the claim that "a correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit." Orestes Brownson surely drew from Transcendentalism the lesson that a social revolution was at hand;... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure ideas in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent...revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. 327 Die Chiffre spirit, die Emerson hier fur die Beschreibung eines apokalyptischen Kreationsprozesses... | |
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Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. 
