On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in HistoryChapman and Hall, 1840 - 303 pages |
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... speak - out of him , to see represented before him in visual shape , and as if with a kind of life and historical reality in it . Now doubt- less there is such a law , and it is one of the deepest in human nature ; neither need we doubt ...
... speak - out of him , to see represented before him in visual shape , and as if with a kind of life and historical reality in it . Now doubt- less there is such a law , and it is one of the deepest in human nature ; neither need we doubt ...
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... speak about it . This Universe , ah me -what could the wild man know of it ; what can we yet know ? That it is a Force , and thousandfold Complexity of Forces ; a Force which is not we . That is all ; it is not we , it is altogether ...
... speak about it . This Universe , ah me -what could the wild man know of it ; what can we yet know ? That it is a Force , and thousandfold Complexity of Forces ; a Force which is not we . That is all ; it is not we , it is altogether ...
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... speak by and by . Mark at present so much ; what the essence of Scandinavian and indeed of all Paganism is : a recognition of the forces of Nature as godlike , stupendous , personal Agencies , —as Gods and Demons . Not inconceivable to ...
... speak by and by . Mark at present so much ; what the essence of Scandinavian and indeed of all Paganism is : a recognition of the forces of Nature as godlike , stupendous , personal Agencies , —as Gods and Demons . Not inconceivable to ...
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... speak to you today is borrowed , not from Ulfila the Mœsogoth only , but from all men since the first man began to speak , —I find no similitude so true as this of a Tree . Beautiful ; altogether beautiful and great . The Machine of the ...
... speak to you today is borrowed , not from Ulfila the Mœsogoth only , but from all men since the first man began to speak , —I find no similitude so true as this of a Tree . Beautiful ; altogether beautiful and great . The Machine of the ...
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... speaking the truest he knew . A great soul , any sincere soul , knows not what he is , —alternates between the highest height and the lowest depth ; can , of all things , the least measure — Himself ! What others take him for , and what ...
... speaking the truest he knew . A great soul , any sincere soul , knows not what he is , —alternates between the highest height and the lowest depth ; can , of all things , the least measure — Himself ! What others take him for , and what ...
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