 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. Religio Medici, II, n. ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE FALL BEING thus deluded before the Fall, it is no wonder... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1922 - 270 pages
...stands thus haughtily upon the pedestal of human dignity: "There is surely a piece of divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." We need not wonder why a thinker of this stamp, to whom mystery was as the breath of his intellectual... | |
 | John Wright Buckham - Personality - 1924 - 216 pages
...within us is recognized. For, as Sir Thomas Browne wrote, "there is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun."8 And unless this divinity in us is given its due place we are less than human. The psychological... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1925 - 692 pages
...elsewhere he can say, if he likes, with Sir Thomas Browne, "Thus there is a Piece of Divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no Homage unto the Sun." JOSEPH NEEDHAM. CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. THE CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF INSTINCT IN a recent article in Mind... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture: he that understands not thus much, hath... | |
 | Felix Adler - Conduct of life - 1926 - 330 pages
...curiosity about — other forms of life and the nonliving world; something, as Sir Thomas Browne said, "that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." The modern fatalist, however, will be moved to contempt by an appeal to the old myths. "If this is all... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...little World, I find my self something more than the great. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, n the snows begin, arjd Nature tells me I am the Image of GOD, as well as Scripture : he that understands not thus much, hath... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...little World, I find my self something more than the great. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. Nature tells me I am the Image of GOD, as well as Scripture : he that understands not thus much, hath... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - Religion - 1979 - 458 pages
...grace from below as well as grace from above. We are both a part of nature and are separated from it. "There is surely a piece of divinity within us," says...before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun." We come from below in one sense: the very salt solution of our blood corresponds to that of the salt... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...grace from below as well as grace from above. We are both a part of nature and are separated from it. "There is surely a piece of divinity within us," says...before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun." We come from below in one sense: the very salt solution of our blood corresponds to that of the salt... | |
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. 
