The Personalist, Volume 7Ralph Tyler Flewelling School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1926 |
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appears beauty become believe biblical birds Byron California causality century chapter character Chinese Christian Chu Hsi church conception condors Confucian consciousness criticism Descartes discussion doctrine ethical evolution existence experience expression fact faith feeling freedom heart human idea ideal individual insists intellectual interest interpretation intuitionism Jesus John Dewey knowledge living logical mathematical matter means metaphysical method Michigan Avenue Chicago mind modern moral natural piety never Paracelsus Personalist personality phenomena philosophy physical Plotinus poems poet poetry present principle principle of relativity problem Professor psychology pure reality reason relation religion religious Robert Elsmere scientific scientist seems sense significance social society sociology soul spirit theory things Thomas Thorild Thorild thought tion transcendental conclusions true truth universe volume white-throated swifts whole WILDON CARR writes yellow-billed magpies Yen Yuan
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Página 241 - Nature :— “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to
Página 19 - to Horatio, “0 good Horatio! what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity a while, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story,”
Página 194 - in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it.—'I refute it thus.'”
Página 246 - “And 0, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more
Página 244 - “To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life: I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling: the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with
Página 244 - “If, in this time Of dereliction and dismay, I yet Despair not of our nature, but retain A more than Roman confidence, a faith That fails not, in all sorrow my support, The blessing of my life—the gift is yours Ye winds and sounding cataracts! ‘tis yours, Ye mountains! thine, 0 Nature.”
Página 246 - sway. I love the brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they: The innocent brightness of the newborn day Is lovely yet.”
Página 182 - next generations will finally be of this opinion. I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope, whom I tried in this way—I took Moore's poems and my own and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought
Página 182 - to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even imagination, passion, and invention, between the little Queen Anne's man and us of the lower Empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then, and Claudian now, among us; and if I had to begin again, I would model myself accordingly.”
Página 244 - in the Ode to Duty: “Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh, and strong.”