...This brief conversation supplied me with a theme for lengthened thought. How sad a truth — if truth it were — that Man's age-long endeavor for perfection...and misery of this outward world were merely types. But if we go no deeper than the intellect, and strive, with merely that feeble instrument, to discern...

...from the fatal circumstance of an error at the very root of the matter ! The heart—the heart—there was the little yet boundless sphere, wherein existed...and misery of this outward world were merely types. But if we go no deeper than the intellect, and strive, with merely that feeble instrument, to discern...

...consume to ashes. I have stood by this livelong night and laughed in my sleeve at the whole business. O, take my word for it, it will be the old world yet...crime and misery of this outward world were merely typos. Purify that inward sphere, and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now...

...laughed in my sleeve at the whole business. ^O, take my word for it, it will be the old world yetj^' i This brief conversation supplied me with a .' theme...yet boundless sphere wherein existed the original wrqng_ of which the crime and misery of this outward world were merely 227 types. Purify that inward...

...faithfully. In a paragraph of one of his tales he reveals unconsciously the secret of all his work : " The heart, the heart, — there was the little yet...Purify that inward sphere, and the many shapes of evil which haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms...

...be?" eagerly demanded the Last Murderer. "What, but the human heart itself!" said the dark-visaged stranger, with a portentous grin. "And, unless they...this outward world were merely types. Purify that inner sphere; and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only...

...Bunyan's Mr. Radman ("From within, out of the heart of man proceedeth sin"), held that the heart of man is "the little yet boundless sphere wherein existed the...and misery of this outward world were merely types." (CE 10:403-4) Although the tradition embodied in the House expressed at the period of its first planting...

...perfection had served only to render him the mockery of the evil principle.' Until he purify the heart 'wherein existed the original wrong of which the crime...and misery of this outward world were merely types,' all reform is duplicity. Both in theme and structure this sketch anticipates The Confidence-Man, as...

...Sin without the theology of it. In "Earth's Holocaust" he attributes evil to a defect of "the Heart." "The Heart — the Heart — there was the little,...this outward world were merely types." Purify that inner sphere, the narrator of "Earth's Holocaust" says, "and the many shapes of evil that haunt the...

...possible to write down in maxims? Be of good cheer." In the end, in the last paragraph, Hawthorne writes: "The heart — the heart — there was the little...the original wrong, of which the crime and misery of the outward world were merely types. Purify that inward sphere.... But if we go no deeper than the...