Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most powerfully effective of the influences for which he was seeking, where should he look if not to Religion? The sublimities and amenities of outward nature might suffice for William Wordsworth, might for him have almost filled the place of a liberal education; but they elevate, teach and above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind...
...Wordsworth, dedicated to the Genius of Solitude, will allure to its imperturbable calm the finer natures and the more highly tempered intellects of every generation, so long as a man has any intuition of what is most sacred in his own emotions and sympathies, or of whatever in outward nature is most capable of awakening them and making them operative, whether to console or strengthen...
...science and the understanding, seeks to give ideal expression to those abiding realities of the spiritual world for which the outward and visible world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks...
II.Originality and Tradition in Literature.Plutarchian parallels are apt to be a little forced by the overpowering necessity of finding analogues and coincidences betwen two sets of facts in which though there may be a general outward similarity in the events, there is no inward likeness in the causes by which the events were brought about, and the circumstances which modified them. In biography it is this action and reaction of the man upon the element in which he works, and of that element upon him, which tests and gauges the quality and amount of his character, the only thing...
Since these are necessary evils, since the outward formalities of religions must vary, the first characteristic of a simple, natural religion must be university. The principles of my religion are embodied in many, but it is impossible that there should not be denominations. Therefore I say that whether it is Christianity, Islam, or Hindooism, its principles, though they may not be intelligible to more than one sect, should yet be so wide as to include all men and all religions. If you exclude any denomination or nationality, if you condemn others to eternal darkness and ignorance, your religion becomes sectarian...