The Portland daily press., 1881-07-15
Boston Transcript
Sayings.
Written in the Style of. Emerson, Alcott
and Thoreau.

Wherever we look we see the manifestation
OF the finite infinite, no less in the orbs Of
heaven than in potato sprout
That soul alone is!master of itself which can
soar into the realms where God is, and still
feel its humanity.
Whether we look at an elm tree or toad
stool, at road or an octopus, we are equally
astoniShed at the greatness OF all littleness
Religion is the spirit of true knowledge re-
solved into aesthetic correspondence with the
upward yearnings of the man-soul for the God
soul.
We must look up to heaven to see the earth,
and upon the earth to behold the heavens, for
it is only by Divine light that we can see
either.
We call this person man and that person a
woman, but we must wait until we are born
into the infinite before we shall comprehend
their true distinction.
Restless mortals! why strain your eyes when
you know you cannot see? 1t is only God who
Sees
love to be in darkness, for then only does
the light within mo make everything lumin-
GUS. No man ever yet comprehended the un-
bounded light there is in total darkness
There is nothing like the shallowness of per-
spicuity. 1t is but the mockery Of sense. The
ideal is the only true real for all matter is
spirit, and all spirit is matter.
GAS man thinketh so is he." We are
where the mind is. He whose thoughts grasp
the infinite is omnipresent. The true philoso-
pher is the Goldman.
The true poet is the one who writes without
consciousness; whose ideas seIze the pen he
uses and write from the Bible that germinated
in his own inwardness
While in life, like st. Paul, we die daily. 1t
is only when we die that we begin to live.
How, y man, can you have faith in tho rea-
son and the understanding when the heart
the true interpreter of the ideal contradicts
their vain surmsings?
Some men think they see nature only when
they are rambling in green fields, among the
mountains or by the seashore; when 1 want
to see nature, l sit in my study and look at an
ink spot.
In truth there is falsity, as in falsity there is
truth; there is nothing true but that heavenly
light which we cannot see.
Men OF great learning and science foolishly
Imagine that they know something; but all
true knowledge dwells in the inspired bards
whose prophetic speech is understood only by
themselves.
Men complain of this book because it is OBJ
scure. Vain, self-deluded critics! Havo you
not yet learned that in obsurity alone is con-
tanned that Divine meaning which is the only
true knowledge?
Once imagined had some knowledge; but
L went out one day and heard bird sing, and
was Immediately humbled with the sense of
my utter ignorance.
60 out in the garden and see toads; near by
is group Of pretty children, and discover
more beauty in the latter only because can
not see as God sees.
OOuSCleuc6 alone Is tne DlV1Ho guide. h6a-
son is the anti-Christ. Faith only gives light;
knowledge blunders.
Subiectivity is the great intellectual and
moral solvent, in which our ideas being diff
fused, the material becomes spiritual and the
objective truly IDEAL
Intolerable egotistic are those who imagine
that common sense or reason has any light
within itself to show the path of duty through
the fiowery wilderness of self-love..
Superstition is the tin pan that is tied to
dogs tail.
Why does not the cock on the steeple crow?
1t is only he who allows the divinity that stirs
within him to hush the surmises of skepticism
who will ever be able to solve that problem.
Are there marriages in heaven? That ques-
tion can be asked only by one who does not
know the meaning Of marriage BY Divine
light we should discover that marriage exists
only in heaven, and that on earth there is no
such thing as marriage.
When Peter heard the cock crow the third
time. he went out and wept. We hear the
bantams OF our own vanity growing constantly
but we do not weep.
AT the feast of ambition, we see men who,
after gorging themselves with pride, have only
whetted their appetites for more, and "back
up their carts for another load"
1t is idle to condemn folly which is but the
beginning of wisdom. Fools see in their blind
ness where the philosopher-tbe chief of men
only gropes. 9
go out and hear the cattle lowing and the
sheep bleating; hear the singing of birds and
the humming of inscts; and then / exclaim,
What strange being is man!''
When have sat half an hour listening to
the babbling of brook, rise with a greater
store of knowledge than is contained in New
toms "Principia," so bountiful of wisdom is
Nature to those who quietly listen to her hum
Bile interpreters.
"a thing of beauty is Joy forever"
crown OF glory is joy for still another day.
How can we look on worm crawling out of
the ground, or a bird vainly attempting to
swallow it alive, and ever afterwards feel any
salf-conceit?
You look at tree and believe you know
what it is, and that you can describe it; but he
who can describe tree has more wisdom than
Kepler.
Call upon your mind for some service, then
call upon your heart for the same; if the heart
refuses you are lost man forever.
L saw tuft of fern growing out OF the side
OF steep rock, and in a moment saw a bug
crawling upon the under surface of one of the
fronds, and then exclaimed, What a wonder
ful teacher is Naturel
This is very simple matter, and we all sup
pose we understand it; but those things which
we call ineligible are the greatest of all mys-
teries.
What fallacy do we associate with the grao-
sis, that is, with the knowledge that puffeth
up" We must yield our understanding to the
logos, to be qualified for the company Of the
immortals. WILSON FLAGG.