...On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested, — 'But these impulses may be...No law can be sacred to me but that of my Nature." "Life only avails, not the having lived." There is the kernel of the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance:...

...vDW my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of "traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested : "But these impulses may be from...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' Ne»<teiw {run he sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very reaany transferable...

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...man must be a nonconformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. ... If I am the devil's child, I will live then from the...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." This was exciting doctrine. It made you the center and final arbiter of your world. It made you self-reliant...

...of the Daimonisches", lesen wir im Tagebuch (JMN V, p. 318), und im Essay "Self-Reüance" heißt es: "If I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." (CW II, p. 30) 83 Wahr, Emerson and Goethe, p. 127. Wir werden allerdings sehen, daß die von Wahr...

...determined by the wild. Thoreau at Walden would reply to the moralist as Emerson does in "Self-Reliance": "'if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" (CW, II, 30). But in "Higher Laws," the good is something other than the wild, something even opposed...

...to the challenge that unknown to him his beliefs may do the devil's work, he responded by asserting, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (CW 2:30). Emerson found justice in the clarification and accountability of one's situation and not...

...direction, hence, in one sense, no path (plottable from outside the journey). (From "Self-Reliance" : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." The idea is that attempting not to live so would not protect the world from the fact of you, probably...

...On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be...seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, 1 will live then from the Devil."1 In effect what Septimius is doing as he responds to his adviser,...

...being recognized as one of God's adopted - declaring, in the formula Emerson made bold to appropriate, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil"; and most suitably, perhaps, if that tortured "I" could share the misery Dickinson called that "white...