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

his mind seems to be the birth of man. We cannot describe the
natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. I cannot
tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal
frame, shall ever reassemble in equal activity in a similar frame, or
whether they have before had a natural history like that of this body
you see before you; but this one thing I know, that these qualities
did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor
buried in any grave; but that they circulate through the Universe:
before the world was, they were. Nothing can bar them out, or shut
them in, but they penetrate the ocean and land, space and time, form
and essence, and hold the key to universal nature. I draw from this
faith courage and hope. All things are known to the soul. It is not
to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than
it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her
native realm, and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as
hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a
beautiful scorn: they are not for her who putteth on her coronation
robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

.