is ever with us, the repression of the flesh is an unceasing
sacrifice which we offer up in the temple of our bodies out of
reverence for the Divinity within them.
NOTE.--The best account of Emerson's ethical and speculative teaching
is to be found in Cooke's _Life of Emerson_, obtainable through Green &
Co., Essex Hall, Strand. I am indebted to it for much of the
expository portion of this chapter.
[1] The fact that Petavius, a Jesuit theologian, felt it his duty to
condemn several ante-Nicene writers as heretical, though honest,
offenders against orthodoxy, is evidence enough that Athanasianism is a
spurious development unknown to the earlier ages.
[2] Tennyson's description of the "average Englishman's" theology.
[3] Ecclesiastes i. 7.
[4] And, we add, for ninety-nine out of every hundred philosophers of
repute.
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