
Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)
Section 6 : Higher Life
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.
It is the prerogative of man that he need not blindly follow the law of his natural being, but is himself the author of a higher moral law, and creates it even in acting it out.
Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)
As quoted in "Indian Design and Interiors" IDI Magazine (October 2006)
2000s
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
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Source: Stray Birds (1916)
"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
Misattributed
“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”
D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.
Part I.
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95ecdfa2-4be8-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html
“There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 91
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
Letter (Spring 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
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