Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,... A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America....... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen... once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it was not enough to be for abolition/while the spirit of the masters flickered in the abolitionist's heart... ... With whom do you believe your lot is cast?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously t...oward an idea of extension of boundaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They can never have known old monks, wise, shrewd, unerring in judgment, and yet aglow with passionate insight, so very tender in ...their humanity. What miracle enables these semi-lunatics, these prisoners of their own dreams, these sleepwalkers, apparently to enter more deeply each day into the pain of others? An odd sort of dream, an unusual opiate which, far from turning him back into himself and isolating him from his fellows, unites the individual with mankind in the spirit of universal charity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio--empt...y boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how--has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades.... Here at home--within the family, so to speak--our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinou...s and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »