 There is no chance and no anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament ; there is he alone with them alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2371897Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 2003 - 596 pages
...is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament: there is he alone with them alone,...vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament: there is he alone with them alone,...vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - Religion - 1993 - 364 pages
...anarchy in the universe. . . . Every god is there siting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with them alone,...benedictions and gifts, and beckoning him up to their thrones."79 Moreover, after the onslaught of "snow-storms of illusion," after being lost in the "mad... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - Philosophy, Ancient - 2000 - 180 pages
...his essay on illusions: Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with them alone,...vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | George Kateb - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 278 pages
...against masses, against the gods. The aim is to heal oneself. Emerson ends his parable in this way: He fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | Conduct of life - 2003 - 136 pages
...is system and gradation. Every God is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with them alone,...vast crowd which sways this way and that and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | Religion in literature - 156 pages
...illusion and the affirmation of reality: The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there he is alone with them alone, they pouring on him benedictions...vast crowd which sways this way and that and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Devotional calendars - 2004 - 396 pages
...is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament: there is he alone with them alone,...vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives... | |
 | California - 1882 - 612 pages
...hall of the firmament. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. There is he alone with them alone. On the instant, and incessantly, fall snowstorms of...which sways this way and that, and whose movements he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives hither and thither,... | |
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