Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838Dutton and Wentworth, printers, 1838 - 81 strán (strany) |
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ardent spirits awaken bear beauty bring called character cheering common condition conscience crime cultivate culture DAVID KIMBALL dignity disinterested divine drudgery duty earnest earth elevation faithfully feel fellow creatures fluence force of thought FRANKLIN LECTURES give grand grandeur greatest grow growth Harvard College hear higher highest human human nature idea idea of Perfection Impartial individual Infi influence institutions intel intellectual and moral intelligence interest justice lethargy living look manual labor mass means of improvement means of self-culture ment mind multitude munity narrow national sovereignty nature nity ourselves outward party passion perfection pestilence pleasure poor precious progress proportion provement purpose of self-culture race religion religious principle rich schools self-improvement sider sion social society soul tinguished tions toil trade true truth ture unfold universe vast amount virtue WALTER CHANNING wants wealth whole worth zens
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Strana 40 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Strana 26 - The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. Now no man receives the true culture of a man, in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished ; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded.
Strana 25 - Raphael, and every spare nook filled with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, and that I were to learn, that neither man, woman, nor child ever cast an eye at these miracles of art, how should I feel their privation ; how should I want to open their eyes, and to help them to comprehend and feel the loveliness and grandeur which in vain courted their notice ? But every husbandman is living in sight of the works of a diviner Artist ; and how much would his existence be elevated, could he see...
Strana 7 - ... common to all men ; for no thought can measure its grandeur. It is the image of God, the image even of his infinity, for no limits can be set to its unfolding. He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great.
Strana 41 - ... shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. To make this means of culture effectual, a man must select good books, such as have been written by rightminded and strong-minded men, real thinkers, who instead of diluting by repetition what others say, have something to say for themselves, and write to give relief to full, earnest souls ; and these works must not be skimmed...
Strana 11 - ... but because they are men, and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. In this country the mass of the people are distinguished by possessing means of improvement, of self-culture, possessed nowhere else.
Strana 80 - I could speak with an awakening voice to the people, of their wants, their privileges, their responsibilities. I would say to them, You cannot, without guilt and disgrace, stop where you are. The past and the present call on you to advance. Let what you have gained be an impulse to something higher. Your nature is too great to be crushed. You were not created what you are, merely to toil, eat, drink and sleep, like the inferior animals.
Strana 25 - ... feelings, and so akin to worship, that it is painful to think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it, as if, instead of this fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon. An infinite joy is lost to tho world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment. Suppose that I were to visit a cottage...
Strana 40 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Strana 13 - There are two powers of the human soul which make self-culture possible, the self-searching and 12 the self-forming power. We have first the faculty of turning the mind on itself; of recalling its past, and watching its present operations ; of learning its various capacities and susceptibilities...