The Dial, Volume 2

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Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley
Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 1842 - Transcendentalism
A magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion.
 

Contents

I
1
III
42
IV
45
V
47
VI
48
VII
52
VIII
53
IX
55
XXX
214
XXXI
228
XXXII
230
XXXIII
231
XXXIV
262
XXXV
271
XXXVI
273
XXXVIII
286

X
57
XI
58
XII
59
XIII
77
XIV
78
XV
81
XVI
82
XVII
83
XVIII
121
XIX
122
XX
129
XXII
137
XXIV
148
XXV
203
XXVI
204
XXVII
205
XXIX
207
XXXIX
288
XL
290
XLI
292
XLII
313
XLIII
357
XLIV
358
XLV
359
XLVI
360
XLVII
361
XLVIII
373
LI
374
LII
380
LIII
409
LV
437
LVI
483
LVII
485
LVIII
528

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Page 370 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot; Who do thy work and know it not; Oh!
Page 495 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby, but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then...
Page 16 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Page 382 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 88 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Page 305 - I conferred not with flesh and blood," says the new convert, " neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me ; but I went into Arabia." Three years afterwards, for the first time, he had an interview with Peter and James. Fourteen years later he went up to Jerusalem to compare notes, as it were, with those
Page 98 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 272 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 359 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 12 - In short, the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us, is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless benefit ; that there is in it no private will, no rebel leaf or limb, but the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency, obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.

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