Emerson : Ralph Waldo (1803-82), American lecturer, poet, essayist, leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism.
... while putting the rest in smaller proportions—after a convention familiar to Indian art. Each essay is indeed excellent in itself; that on Emerson is a masterpiece of fullness in brevity, for it says perfectly in a few pages all that need be said about Emerson the poet and nothing that need not be said; others are quite full and conclusive enough for their purpose, for instance the admirable "defence" ...
... believers from Judaism." The real 2nd-century testimony is from Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis, about 130 AD. Drawing on The Ante-Nicene Fathers, edited by Roberts and Donaldson, Vol. I, p. 155, Harry Emerson Fosdick 71 tells us: "Papias says that Matthew, the disciple, 'put together the oracles of the Lord in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best they could.' This certainly was... 84. Ibid., p. 62, fn. 104. 85. The Jerusalem Bible, The New Testament, p. 415. 86. Ibid., pp. 413, 414. 87. Ibid., The Old Testament, p. 1239. 88.Quoted by Henry Emerson Fosdick, The Man from Nazareth (New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1953), p. 118. 89. The Jerusalem Bible, The New Testament, p. 16. 90. The Birth of the Messiah, p. 124. 91 ...
... than a melting-pot of prominent types from everywhere, "all the world" in miniature. I may quote some passages from the book, The Man from Nazareth, by the well-known American Bible-scholar, Harry Emerson Fosdick: 5 "In Jesus' day Palestine was set in a matrix of Graeco- Page 87 Roman cities. Syria to the north; the coast cities along the Mediterranean such as Jappa... 3. Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke (New York: Image Books, 1979), p. 236, fn 3. 4. Ibid., p. 236. 5. Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Man from Nazareth (New York: Pocket Books Inc., 1953), pp. 163-4,166,167,170. 6. Saul Lieberman, Greek in Jewish Palestine, p. 21. 7. Salo Wittenayer Baron, A Social and ...
... example the rise of the Arabs, A small uncivilised race living in arid deserts suddenly rises up and changes completely the course of history. That is an inrush of forces. PURANI: Thinkers like Emerson and Shaw believe that human beings have not made any substantial progress in their powers of reasoning since the Greeks.— SRI AUROBINDO: It is quite true. Of course, you have today a vaster field... field and more ample material than the Greeks had, but in the handling of them the present-day mind is not superior to the Greek mind with its more limited field and material. PURANI: Emerson writing about Plato, says that he has been the epitome of the European mind for the last two thousand years or more. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, the European mind got everything from the Greeks and owes everything ...
... in all. And to deem them not all in all is hardly to hold a brief for art for art's sake in a narrow barren sense. The art-critic who found fault with Nehru's doctrine and cited Tolstoy, Emerson, Ruskin and Morris on his own behalf sought to justify the artist's drawing inspiration from within himself, from his own profound emotions and personal ideals and individual heights rather than... writers at all he would scarcely try to defend his theory with the help of the greatest champions in the nineteenth century of the theory actually being put forward by Nehru! The names of Tolstoy, Emerson, Ruskin and Morris cannot be used for upholding entirely the Marxist view Page 46 of art. Surely, these men were purposeful and had the good of society at large in mind: they... were poles apart from believing the individual to be real only in relation to society. Tolstoy was religious to the marrow and looked for the fountain-head of all conduct in duty to God. Emerson was a mixture of pantheist and tran-scendentalist: he held that the truest springs of action lay in the divine infinity hidden behind phenomena. Besides, he was a pugnacious individualist vis à ...
... By the Way 11-October-1906 Emerson and original sin have never as yet gone together. But Principal Herambachandra Moitra has achieved the impossible. Lecturing to a Bombay congregation on a Wednesday he solemnly declared that "even children themselves are not free from sin," and on the following Sunday discoursed on "Emerson". Poor sage of Concord! Calcutta is going to ...
... "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I contain multitudes." When one is growing, one can't always have consistency. SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. Emerson and Vivekananda said the same thing. "Consistency", said Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." There are contrary sides to a truth and their expressions may appear contradictory. EVENING NIRODBARAN (as Sri Aurobindo ...
... suddenly rises up and in fifty years spreads from Spain to Asia and completely changes the course of history. That is an inrush of forces. Disciple : There are thinkers – among them Shaw and Emerson – who believe that man has not made substantial progress in his powers of reasoning since the Greeks. Sri Aurobindo : It is quite true. Of course, you have to-day a vaster field and more... ample material than the Greeks had; but in the handling of it the present-day mind is not superior to the Greek mind in its handling of its limited material. Disciple : Writing about Plato, Emerson says that he is the epitome of the European mind for the last 2000 years. Sri Aurobindo : It is true; – the European mind got every- thing and owes everything to the Greeks. Every branch ...
... towards Vedanta, Sankhya, Buddhism, admiration for the subtlety and largeness of Indian philosophic idealism, the stamp left by the Upanishads and the Gita on great intellects like Schopenhauer and Emerson and on a few lesser thinkers, this was the first narrow inlet of the floods. The impression did not go very far at the best and the little effect it might have produced was counteracted and even effaced ...
... the time to the full height and power of what the intellect of the race could then think out or create in the light of the inheritance of our ages. A small number of writers—in the English language Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin are the best known among these names,—build for us a bridge of transition from the intellectual transcendentalism of the earlier nineteenth century across a subsequent low-lying scientific ...
... into Asia. It is only the beginning, but so was it only the beginning when a few scholars alone rejoiced in the clarity of Buddhistic Nihilism, Schopenhauer rested his soul on the Upanishads and Emerson steeped himself in the Gita. No one could have imagined then that a Hindu monk would make converts in London and Chicago or that a Vedantic temple would be built in San Francisco and Anglo-Saxon Islamites ...
... idea of socialism. This is evident in the way Latin America figures in a book such as Voltaire's Candide . The impact of the discovery of India, of course, was felt as far off as in the U.S., with Emerson, Thoreau, and other members of the Boston Brahmin community. But if renaissance is an inappropriate term, what do we call the massive reorganisation of Indian society that did take place in ...
... perceives them and brings them into view, some Upanishadic eye behind the eye zooming around them and seizing them into our focus. This certainly is then a positive advance over Wordsworth and Emerson, giving a very recognisable shape and character to the ethereally real. Sri Aurobindo himself had taken up the example of the two birds to illustrate the luminous definiteness of symbols in ...
... The Divine can be lived, but not defined. 1 Next, a redoubtable response from Emily Dickinson, one of the great foursome of classical American-English literature (the other three being Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.) Asked how she would define poetry, Miss Dickinson replied: "If I read a book, and it makes my body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically ...
... isolation might - unless God's Grace stood sentinel by one's side - drive one to distraction and lunacy. There was the other side of the medal too, for there were not wanting officers - like Emerson the Jail Superintendent, Dr. Daly the prison physician and Baidyanath Chatterji the assistant doctor - who were polite, considerate and kindly. There was also a change for the better in the outer ...
... authority that we must turn. It matters very little to me what Mr. Archer or Dr. Gough or Sir John Woodroffe's unnamed English professor may say about Indian philosophy; it is enough for me to know what Emerson or Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, three entirely different minds of the greatest power in this field, or what thinkers like Cousin Page 100 and Schlegel have to say about it or to mark the ...
... the belief that I could claim Her protection via Pranab-da. After Pranab-da’s demise my claims for Her protection are the same. The solar system has no anxiety about its anxiety. Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
... with my publishing house, I have to steer toward a deepened religion without dogmas, and that the forthcoming period will most probably produce the men needed for this. Tolstoy, Eugen Schmitt and Emerson are for me the first steps in this direction. Also Meister Eckhart.” 733 As Ulbricht tells us, the shaken and confused intellectuals around 1900 looked for the presence of God in their own heart, something ...
... b. (sometimes I.e.) the spiritual aspect of a man; the group of attributes and qualities of mankind regarded as godly or godlike.' No quotations are given as examples, but 1 suspect writers like Emerson and Whitman can be drawn upon. At least in the American philosopher Josiah Royce's book, The World and the Individual, published in 1901,1 have chanced upon the phrase: "...in the world as a whole ...
... simple and energetic straightforwardness Page 627 what one means to say, so that one can add grace of language without disturbing this basis. Arnold is a very good model for this purpose. Emerson less, but his book will also do. It is surely better to write your own thoughts. The exercise of writing in your own words what another has said or written is a good exercise or test for accuracy ...
... Indian & European authorities agree. The Upanishads, accepted by Schopenhauer, have been explained by Shankara; they have shaped the Particularism of Ramanujam and influenced the transcendentalism of Emerson. Great philosophies have been born of them, which, as Europeans have noted with an admiring or patronising wonder and Indians with a sort of obsequious pride, are on a level or almost on a level with ...
... manner and poetic quality of the writers whose work he brings before us. This is done sometimes in such a masterly manner that even one touch more might well have been a touch in excess. The essay on Emerson is a masterpiece in this kind; it gives perfectly in a few pages all that should be said about Emerson's poetry and nothing that need not be said. But some of the essays, admirable in themselves, are ...
... a line in which the words are borne on a rhythm which gives perhaps the grandest vibration, in all European literature, of a feeling of contact with what Dr. Otto calls the "numinous" and Emerson the "Oversoul". But Marlowe could have brought a power as splendid in its own way if more loose, an equal strength of voice if less volume and a less noble intonation. Though he was more sharp in ...
... perhaps makes for greater consistency: the wrinkle-devoured skin, the brightness-losing hair, the dust-closed eye — a poetic vision all of one piece and referring exclusively to the human face. But Emerson would be proved right in saying: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." If Nashe thought of achieving a marked unity by means of "hair", he was sacrificing the poet in him to the rational ...
... showing off. The epigram appears to mean simply that when the religious and spiritual temper fades, the community loses its inner sustaining vigour. On p. 542 Nair notes that "in the time of Emerson (1803-1882) not much knowledge of Indian religious traditions had percolated into the West; thus he refers to the Gita as "the much renowned book of Buddhism'." Then Nair comments: "He was responding ...
... continuous gradation from the single-celled individuals through colonies of varying degrees of integration, and finally to multicellular individuals. The problem again arises in animal societies which Emerson" 14 calls 'superorganisms', and in plants it arises in the compound filamentous forms such as the fleshy fungi" 15 (italics ours). In the fifth level of union, the level of macro-organisms ...
... still see that the fault lay in the system and not in the lack of human qualities in the jail officials. In the Karakahini he has given us very sympathetic sketches of the Jail Superintendent, Mr. Emerson, calling him 'an embodiment of Europe's nearly vanished Christian ideals', the assistant doctor, Baidyanath Chatterjee, and his superior officer Dr. Daly, an Irishman who had 'inherited many of the ...
... sudden burst of keen delight!... "...For some days in this solitary imprisonment I had to go without books or such other things which are the usual means of beguiling one's time. Afterwards, Mr. Emerson came and gave me permission to obtain my clothes and books from home.... I requested my respected maternal uncle, the famous editor of the Sanjivani, to send my clothes and some books including the ...
... London, 1917). Mackenzie, J.S. Cosmic Problems : An Essay on Speculative Philosophy (Macmillan, London, 1931). Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Oxford University Press, London, 1946). Mctaggart.J. McT. Ellis. Philosophical Studies (Edward Arnold, London, 1934). Page 488 ...
... Norman 18 Drewett, William H.6 Dryden, John 310,341 Dutt, Tom 253 Eliot, T.S. 44,198,267,272,314,389,391, 397,408,411,413,414,453 Emerson, R.W. 332 Erie 47,50,51 Essays on the Gita 25,294,359 Euripides 243 Fausset, Hugh I'Anson 434 Ferrar, Hugh Norman 53 Fischer, Kuno 425 ...
... involution of Consciousness—the highest imaginable —in mind, life, matter. Often the Truth is veiled. Consciousness is in a swoon; we see and do not see, or are afraid to recognise what we see; as R.W. Emerson once wrote, "Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods." 119 But the mystics are able to ...
... sages of all times grouped under "The Song of Wisdom" and "Wisdom and the Religions" - a veritable universal congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah ...
... point, saying with a simple and energetic straightforwardness what one means to say so that one can add grace of language without disturbing this basis. Arnold is a very good model for this purpose. Emerson less, but his book will also do. It is surely better to write your own thoughts. The exercise of writing in your own words what another has said or written is a good exercise or test for accuracy ...
... tion. P.S. Soon after writing this letter I fell to turning the pages of Literary Criticism in America , edited with an Introduction by Albert D. Van Nostrand. Opening in the midst of Emerson's essay on the Poet I struck on the following passage which has an interesting general relation both to what I have said and to what you have. "Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in ...
... excess of the occasion' (p. 28). But when he goes on to aver that Shakespeare is 'not a poet of the thinking mind proper' (p. 28), he may be missing how much of the mind thinking (in the fashion of Emerson's 'man thinking'), which is to be preferred to 'the thinking mind', is there in Shakespeare. However, his main corroboration of the Aurobindonian perception of 'an unfailing divinity of power' in S ...
... alone to the Alone." So surely there is an inward-pulling and upward-pushing power in the state of loneliness. But in Aurobindonian terms a deeper truth lies in a spirituali-sation of that remark of Emerson's that the most developed man is he who preserves a state of solitude in the midst of a crowd. Or else the converse may be visualised as a complementary truth to the full Aurobindonian: against a background ...
... the noble profession of teaching. 11.That they would command real prestige among students only if they have a genuine concern for their welfare and development. 12.That they should follow Emerson's words: "Let's Be; Not Seem" in letter and spirit. 13.That Action speaks louder than words. 14.That Truth is higher but higher still is truthful living and that the greatest homage we can ...
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