December 16, 2008
The human soul, the world, the universe are laboring on to their magnificent consummation. We are not fashioned thus marvelously for naught. Thus straining conceptions of man, the monuments of his reason and the whole furniture of his faculties is adapted to mightier views of things than the mightiest he has yet behold. Roll on, then, thou stupendous Universe, in sublime, incomprehensible solitude, in an unbeheld but sure path. The finger of God is pointing out your way. And when ages shall have elapsed and time is no more, while the stars shall fall from heaven and the Sun become darkness and the moon blood, human intellect, purified and sublimed, shall mount to perfection of unmeasured and ineffable enjoyment of knowledge and glory. Man shall come to the presence of Jehovah. (In the manner of Chateaubriand)
Emerson - Journals Volume I
Posted by amin at December 16, 2008 12:05 PM