Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract notions into a picture-language, which is itself nothing but an abstraction from ...objects of the senses; the principal being more worthless even than its phantom proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former shapeless to boot. On the other hand, a symbol is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all though the translucense of the eternal through and in the temporal. It always partakes of the reality which it renders intelligible; and while it enunciates the whole, abides itself as a living part in that unity of which it is the representative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal... Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so on into winter Till even I have ceased... To come as a foot printer, And only some slight beast So mousy or so foxy Shall print there as my proxy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »