...put into the mouth of his earth-spirit these resounding words :— " Thus at the roaring loom of life I ply, And weave for God the garment thou see'st Him by." 12 The thought is never absent from the mind of our own Emerson ; every one of his essays is full of...

...— Birth and death, an infinite ocean — A seizing- and giving the fire of the living — 'Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply. And weave for God the garment thou seest him by. The scientist at best but studies garments. We want to know the weavers, to know man and to know God....

...sudden appearance in the universe of a dead, inane substance foreign to God and spiritual being." " Thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the mantle thou seest him by." All religions properly so-called conceive of phenomena as the outcome of...

...the handiwork of any second or opposing Intelligence. If Nature explains herself to us, '"Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garb thou seest Him by," that "garb" we behold is neither unfinished in the minutest hem, nor yet torn...

...examples) as Goethe, Carlyle, and Tennyson. You may remember the Earth-spirit in Faust says — " Thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." That is Goethe's idea of nature. She is "the garment of God." Again, Carlyle says in ' Sartor Eesartus,'...

...Birth and death an infinite ocean, A seizing and giving the fire of the living, 'Tis thus at the war my loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." GOETHE (translated by Carlyle). t III. JOHN SCOTUS—ERIGENA. CHARLES THE BALD, youngest son of Louis...

...Resartus, and indeed Goethe's ; which he quotes, from Faust's ' Spirit of the Earth : * ''Tis thus the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Vesture thou seest Him by' "green and great tree, the haunting hush of limestone defiles, or of some...

...Goethe struck the right keynote when he put these words into the mouth of the Spirit of Nature : — So at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment that them seest Him by. Those elaborate demonstrations of the Divine power and wisdom as displayed...

...Jews. The imagery of the text no doubt supplied Goethe with the thought in his fine lines " Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply. And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by ! " which in turn suggested to Carlyle the "Philosophy of Clothes." " Why multiply instances ? It is...

...changeable divided from what is unchangeable ? Does that Earth-Spirit's speech in Faust, — " T is thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by ; " or that other thousand-times repeated speech of the Magician, Shakspeare, — "And like the baseless...