Excerpt from Brief Essays and Brevities Within his magnetic brain are other cham bers, built to be opened to deeper medita tion, to be illuminated by still finer light. Only by celestial observations can terrestrial charts be constructed, says Jean Paul. In man there is an upper heavenly sphere; only by help of this can be instituted and conducted an orderly human life. Unguided, untempered by these nobler capacities, even the lower could not accomplish their specific functions. Here is the celestial canopy which gives ...
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Excerpt from Brief Essays and Brevities Within his magnetic brain are other cham bers, built to be opened to deeper medita tion, to be illuminated by still finer light. Only by celestial observations can terrestrial charts be constructed, says Jean Paul. In man there is an upper heavenly sphere; only by help of this can be instituted and conducted an orderly human life. Unguided, untempered by these nobler capacities, even the lower could not accomplish their specific functions. Here is the celestial canopy which gives amplitude and security to man's being. The vaulting sweep of disinterested feeling, open to men, constitutes their humanity, their divine hu manity. Without the breadth and freedom of this upper range, men were not men, but a herd of low-cropping bipeds. Take from a man his capacity to be just, to be Charitable, to bound up from the very depths of despair upon ever-surging waves of hope, to feel at times a thrill shoot through him from Infini tude, - cut him Off from all this, and you dis crown him, you disorb him. By no intellectual projection, by no scientific dexterity, can he be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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