“ Life is one, and universal; its forms many and individual. ”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839). copy citation
Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Source | Hyperion |
Topic | life |
Date | 1839 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5436/5436-h/5436-h.htm |
Context
“but Flemming sat listening with excited imagination, and the Professor continued in the following words, which, to the best of his listener's memory, seemed gleaned here and there from Fichte's Destiny of Man, and Shubert's History of the Soul.
"Life is one, and universal; its forms many and individual. Throughout this beautiful and wonderful creation there is never-ceasing motion, without rest by night or day, ever weaving to and fro. Swifter than a weaver's shuttle it flies from Birth to Death, from Death to Birth;”
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