“A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.” LooksSelfPastMovingOrderShadowEssenceCurrentsPursuitChosenStreamsBackwards Book:Josiah Royce: Selected Writings Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings
“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.” MenInterestObjectsEssenceRemainsIndividualityDevotionInstanceMysteriousPatrioticCommentHistorianLegendsAbrahamElusiveBiographers Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown
