
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853), III : Of Justice and the Conscience https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ten_Sermons_of_Religion/Of_Justice_and_the_Conscience
Context: The facts of man's history do not fully represent the faculties of his nature as the history of matter represents the qualities of matter. Man, though finite, is indefinitely progressive, continually unfolding the qualities of his nature; his history, therefore, is not the whole book of man, but only the portion thereof which has been opened and publicly read. So the history of man never completely represents his nature; and a law derived merely from the facts of observation by no means describes the normal rule of action which belongs to his nature. The laws of matter are known to us because they are kept; there the ideal and actual are the same; but man has in his nature a rule of conduct higher than what he has come up to, — an ideal of nature which shames his actual of history. Observation and reflection only give us the actual of morals; conscience, by gradual and successive intuition, presents us the ideal of morals.
Introductory
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 195
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853), III : Of Justice and the Conscience https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ten_Sermons_of_Religion/Of_Justice_and_the_Conscience
Context: Man naturally loves justice, for its own sake, as the natural object of his conscience. As the mind loves truth and beauty, so conscience loves the right; it is true and beautiful to the moral faculties. Conscience rests in justice as an end, as the mind in truth. As truth is the side of God turned towards the intellect, so is justice the side of Him which conscience looks upon. Love of justice is the moral part of piety.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King