...same ungrudging sacrifice of all for them, if the need come. " How nigh is grandeur to our dust, How near is God to man ! When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " Emerson was a New Engländer in every fibre, and it is the soul of New England that speaks...

...of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless...

...knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that...

...virtue too easy. His writings are full of the loftiest lessons of renunciation. He it was who wrote : " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...voice without reply :— 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." " It is in vain," he says, " to make a paradise, but for...

...common clod To a purer air and a broader vieAv. JG HOLLAND. DUTY. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. A FAKEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to...

...the young to enlist for the war, contain this noble stanza— " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Emerson's earnest feeling on the civil war comes out in his letters to Carlyle. Writing in...

...the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the inborn sense of right. To the question,...

...life of man are all interwoven in the web of human experiences. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " There is but one way of separating the life of God from the souls of men. It is by withdrawing...

...common clod To a purer air and a broader view. DUTY. So nigh is grandeur to our dust JG HOLLAND. So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." A FAKEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; EMERSON. No lark could pipe to...

...privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean" ! How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that declaration of...