Society And Solitude, Twelve Chapters: Twelve Chapters
Society And Solitude, Twelve Chapters: Twelve Chapters
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold, which has rolled like a brook through our hands. A thousand thoughts awoke ; great rainbows seemed to span the sky, — a morning among the moun- tains ; — but we close the book, and not a ray re- mains in the memory of evening. But this passion Digitized by VjOOQIC 194 BOOKS. for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry : that which shall show us, in morning and night, in stars and mountsfi...ns, and in all the plight and circum- stance of men, the analogous of our own thoughts, and a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature. If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men who had atmosphere and amplitude about them. Every good fable, every mythology, every biography from a religious age, every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity, and are not detached and critical, have the imaginative element.
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