Transcendentalism : With Preludes On Current Events
The book Transcendentalism : With Preludes On Current Events was written by author Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901 Here you can read free online of Transcendentalism : With Preludes On Current Events book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Transcendentalism : With Preludes On Current Events a good or bad book?
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15). The son afterwards exhibited by fits much of the father's mind. [Applause.] I never read certain passages in Shakspeare without thinking of that experience of the high bailiff on Henley Street, in Stratford. Nevertheless, although Shakspeare's mir- ror is so wide that it takes into its lower ranges the gutter and the feather-heads, it takes in, also, in its upper ranges, eternity itself. [Applause.] This great soul held the mirror up, not merely to time, but, in some sense, to the Unseen H...oly. I reverence him fathomlessly, but not as a winnowed writer. "He never blotted a line," said Ben Jonson. " Would he had blotted a thousand ! " There is no winnowed writer outside ofjthe ~Bible. You cannot put together out of the "world a dozen, or six, to say nothing of sixty-six pamphlets, that shall contain, as the sixty-six in the Bible do, an harmonious system of religious truth, and no morally adulterate element. Where are there six volumes that could be stitched together, even from among those that Christianity has inspired, of which we can say they possess this lowest, and by no means ex- haustive trait of true inspiration, — perfect moral and religious winnowedness?
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