"Emerson, Ralph W. - The Method of Nature" - читать интересную книгу автора (Emerson Ralph Waldo)

again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?

And what is to replace for us the piety of that race? We
cannot have theirs: it glides away from us day by day, but we also
can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern
sea, and be ourselves the children of the light. I stand here to
say, Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul. It is the
office, I doubt not, of this age to annul that adulterous divorce
which the superstition of many ages has effected between the
intellect and holiness. The lovers of goodness have been one class,
the students of wisdom another, as if either could exist in any
purity without the other. Truth is always holy, holiness always
wise. I will that we keep terms with sin, and a sinful literature
and society, no longer, but live a life of discovery and performance.
Accept the intellect, and it will accept us. Be the lowly ministers
of that pure omniscience, and deny it not before men. It will burn
up all profane literature, all base current opinions, all the false
powers of the world, as in a moment of time. I draw from nature the
lesson of an intimate divinity. Our health and reason as men needs
our respect to this fact, against the heedlessness and against the
contradiction of society. The sanity of man needs the poise of this
immanent force. His nobility needs the assurance of this
inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its
bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow. If you say,
`the acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:' -- I shall not
seek to penetrate the mystery, I admit the force of what you say. If
you ask, `How can any rules be given for the attainment of gifts so
sublime?' I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit,
as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly,
they woo and court us from every object in nature, from every fact in
life, from every thought in the mind. The one condition coupled with
the gift of truth is its use. That man shall be learned who reduceth
his learning to practice. Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was
opened to him, "that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did
it not, at death shall lose their knowledge." "If knowledge," said
Ali the Caliph, "calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away."
The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we
are higher poets, and can speak a deeper law. Do what you know, and
perception is converted into character, as islands and continents
were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb
light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a
thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and
ethereal currents. The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of
joy and exultation. Who shall dare think he has come late into
nature, or has missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the
admirable stars of possibility, and the yet untouched continent of
hope glittering with all its mountains in the vast West? I praise
with wonder this great reality, which seems to drown all things in
the deluge of its light. What man seeing this, can lose it from his
thoughts, or entertain a meaner subject? The entrance of this into