December 25, 2008
We have one remarkable evidence to the character, from eternity, of that Being, in the divine determination to make man in the image of God. In all the insignificance and imperfection of our nature, in the guilt to which we are liable, and the calamity which guilt has accumulated, - man triumphs to remember that he bears about him a spark which all beings venerate and acknowledge to be the emblem of God, - which may be violated, but which cannot be extinguished. And we remark with delight the confirmations of this belief in the opening features of human character. And the little joy of the child who plants a seed and sees himself instrumental in the creation of a flower, forcibly reminds us of that beneficence which built the heavens and the earth, and saw that it was good.
Emerson - Journals Volume I
Posted by amin at December 25, 2008 12:52 PM