...had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits! But the diviue effort is never relaxed ; the carrion in the sun will...gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true. Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor " auld Nickie Ben," " O wad ye tak a thought,...

...Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits ! But the divine effort is never relaxed ; the can-ion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers...gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true. Burns, with the wild humour of his apostrophe to "poor old Nickie Ben," " 0 wad ye tak a thought, and...

...admitted no conversion for evil spirits ! But the divine effort is never relaxed ; the carrion in tha sun will convert itself to grass and flowers; and...gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true. Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to " poor old Nickie Ben," — " O wad ye tak a thought,...

...minds," by being himself a prophet of the most comprehensive optimism. " The divine effort," he says, " is never relaxed ; the carrion in the sun will convert...gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true." With him " the largest is always the truest sentiment." He speaks of Burns, saying to Satan, " 0 wad...

...unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent, it is atheism, it is the last profanation. The divine effort is never relaxed, the carrion in...grass and flowers, and man, though in brothels or in jails, or on jibbets is on his way to all that is true and good."1 Carlyle, too, expresses most...

...tortured by self-reproach for some mean or dishonest act should not wish not to have sinned, for " man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his -way to all that is good and true." If this only means that the Universal Spirit of love and wisdom is ever over-ruling to good the effect...

...also "religion." "The less we have to do with our sins the better." " Evil is good in the making—the Divine effort is never relaxed; the carrion in the sun will convert itself into grass and flowers; and man, though in brothels, or gaols, or on gibbets, is on his way to all...

...also " religion." " The less we have to do with our sins the better." " Evil is good in the making — the Divine effort is never relaxed ; the carrion in the sun will convert itself into grass and flowers ; and man, though in brothels, or gaols, or on gibbets, is on his way to all...

...suppose it is what we have in Emerson, as he expresses himself sometimes in very bold statement, " Man though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his " way to all that is good and true." If I understand Browning in some of his utterances, he seems to carry as far. I am well aware that...

...strong with the whole strength of nature," or even that " evil is good in the making " ; and that " the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers ; and man, though in brothels, or gaols, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true," — we are inclined partly to explain...