Posts tagged William Channing Gannett
Posts tagged William Channing Gannett
Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life
Character is the concentrated result of life, its organized deposit, its harvest in us, and the seed of after-life
Nature is nothing but little things. The mountain becomes motes of silex and calcium, the ocean single drops of water, the prairie single grains of alumina, the human body single cells, human life single thoughts and feelings and impulses…When you have summed up what God does by means of “little things,” and, for the most part, in utter silence, there will be nothing left to think of.
There is nothing common, nothing trifling, nothing un-wonderful in this universe!
Is it not very wonderful? Forever and forever, — there is no stopping in the vast journey, if we ask the wherefore of the simplest motion that our eyes perceive. Nothing wasted, nothing lost; each particle accounted for; each pulse of light or heat or electricity forever doing its appointed work in ceaseless resurrections; at each birth exactly reproducing in new forms that which had ceased in old ones.
The poet is one with double vision, one who is at once near-sighted and far-sighted, who sees the closer things as wonders because that one sees their far relations too. Where we say ‘poet,’ we might say simply ‘seer.
You can not step my journey for me, can not carry me on your back, can not do me any great service; but it makes a world of difference to me whether I do my part in the world with, or without, these little helps which fellow-travelers can exchange.
