Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.


Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times (ed. 1844)


Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.