 | 1895 - 870 pagini
...flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception. * * * * * * And, to know Rather consists in opening 1 out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting 1 entry fora light Supposed to be without.' "This is the poetical form of the truth that I believe... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1896 - 190 pagini
...perception — which is truth ; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error : and ' to know ' Rather consists in opening out a way...effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. — Browning's 'Paracelsus.' We teach and teach Until, like drumming pedagogues, we lose The thought... | |
 | Honoré de Balzac - 1896 - 592 pagini
...perception —which is truth; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error; and, ' to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Thau in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." To " set free the soul in all alike,"... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1897 - 48 pagini
...fullness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in. This perfect, dear perception . . . . And, to know, Rather consists in opening out a way...effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." Unity of belief is poverty of intellect. An ounce of inspiration is worth a pound of direction. Think... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 566 pagini
...mind. The poet's idealism makes all this easier to him. “To know,” he says in “Paracelsus,” To know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence...effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. Thus his evolutionism, instead of lowering man, eleyates nature. Matter cannot explain spirit, for... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 592 pagini
...matter and mind. The poet's idealism makes all this easier to him. " To know," he says in " Paracelsus," To know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence...effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without Thus his evolutionism, instead of lowering man, elevates nature. Matter cannot explain spirit, for... | |
 | Jirah Dewey Buck - 1897 - 120 pagini
...wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it 'in, this perfect, clear perception—which is truth." . . . "To know, rather consists in opening out a way whence...effecting entry for a light supposed to be without." The guiding light and the zest that holds the soul to the quest for truth, in thus " opening out a... | |
 | 1896 - 500 pagini
...intellect is to define truth in thought, and to express it in a form of words. " To know," says Browning, " rather consists In opening out a way whence the imprisoned...effecting entry for a light supposed to be without." Whatever intuition conceives a thing to be, the intellect names it. Its scope includes all immediate,... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1897 - 380 pagini
...truth we perceive at any given moment comes from within, rather than from without. As Browning says, " To know, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." One of the most... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1898 - 256 pagini
...and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception. . . . . . . And, to know, Rather consists in opening out a way...effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." This is the poetical form of the truth that I believe is pointed to by both philosophy and science.... | |
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Truth is within ourselves ; and "to know" Rather consists in opening out a way Whence' the imprisoned splendor may escape Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. —Robert Browning. 
