Our Age
is retrospective.
It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face, we, through their eyes. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? ...
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. ... There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
Emerson--Nature
1836
The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences that have been bread of life to millions. But they have no epical integrity; are fragmentary; are not shown in their order to the intellect. I look for the new Teacher, that shall follow so far those shining laws, that he shall see them come full circle; shall see their rounding complete grace; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul; shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy.
Emerson--Address
1838
There are trees in every forest that tower above the others, that rise in majesty until they scrape the sky. Repeating echoes beat against the depths of time and space when, weakened with the weight of years, a titan falls with a thundering crash. The fallen giants return to the earth, and in the years that follow other trees feed upon their strength. Thus it has been for countless ages, and thus it shall be so long as life endures.
When man first stepped upon the earth, and looked above him where stars crowded the heavens, he saw that some shone with a steady brilliance surpassing all others. Flashing meteors often came into view and then left no sign of their going. Now the searching telescope of the astronomer reveals a host of other stars, tremendous suns too far away to be seen without the aid of science. But everywhere there are little stars, and because they are small, a few are called great.
How many men and women have lived and worked and died? Their number cannot be told, nor is there reason why they should be remembered. Every age has given rise to persons who exerted a vast influence upon their times. History is written around them. Many were like the meteors, brilliant but transitory; some were all but unnoticed; others were recognized as great among their fellows. ...
Philosophers, musicians, authors, and artists produce in tangible form the creations which have power to arouse thought and feeling. Scientists and inventors discover facts which revolutionize the lives of millions of people.
'Great Leaders of the World'
Wonder Books--1938
"...the study of Life and the nature of the Law, governed and directed by thought, always conscious that we live in a spiritual Universe, that God is in, through, around and for us."
Ernest Holmes
1887-1960
Founder of Religious Science Movement
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Margery Callen
