Essays Second Series
, by Emerson, Ralph Waldo- ISBN: 9781419118449 | 1419118447
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add that there is that in us which changes not and which ranks all sensations and states of mind. The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung determines the dignity of any deed.