MDDM Ch. 32 Summary, Notes

[jbor]

on 7/2/02 2:24 AM, Otto at o.sell at telda.net wrote:

>> Emerson's moral, that "Time is the Space that may not be seen",
>> is mistakenly characterised by Wicks as a statement about human faith.
>> 
> 
> But in a Puritan Christian context it makes some sense to me that we are
> blind to time out of mercy as Wicks puts it. Who could bear to know
> everything (if the future is predestined) in advance.

Yes, but I don't think Emerson meant it as the note of reassurance which
Wicks contrives to turn it into.

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