This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ..., ' There is a pause near death when men grow bold Toward all things else." Robert Lakdor. "Man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders: he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred; that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ..., ' There is a pause near death when men grow bold Toward all things else." Robert Lakdor. "Man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders: he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred; that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of lime. He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity. He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his own life, and be content with all places, and any service he can render. He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it, aii so hath already the whole 'future in the bottom of the heart." * Emerson. Can we not all remember the time when, on first taking to heart Milton, and afterwards Akenside, -- (before knowing anything of Dante, ) we conceived the grandest moment of possible existence to be that of a seraph, poised on balanced wings, watching the bringing out of a world from chaos; its completion in fitness, beauty and radiance, and its first motion in its orbit, when sent forth by the creative hand on its everlasting way 1 How many a young imagination has dwelt on this image till the act appeared to be almost one of memory, -- till the vision became one of the persuasives to entertain the notion of human pre-existence, in which we find one or another about us apt to delight! To me, this conception was, in my childhood, one of eminent delight; and when, years afterwards, I was involved in more than the ordinary toil and hurry of existence, I now and then recurred to the old image, with a sort of longing to exchange my function, -- my share of the worldbuilding in which we all have...
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