Head and Heart by Garry Wills

Author:Garry Wills [Wills, Garry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101202531
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2007-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

Douglass remembered fondly his early spiritual awakenings. Teaching the Sabbath school was the sweetest time of his life, and his long hours of prayer and Bible reading with the holy black man Charles Lawson stayed with him: “The advice and the suggestions of Uncle Lawson were not without their influence upon my character and destiny.”63 But he did not just look back to his formation among the Evangelicals. He looked forward to the nature mysticism that connects him with the Transcendentalists he came to know in New England. As a teenager he had been awed by a meteor shower.

The heavens seemed about to part with its [the shower’s] starry train. I witnessed this gorgeous spectacle and was awe-struck. The air seemed filled with bright descending messengers from the sky. It was about daybreak when I saw this sublime scene. I was not without the suggestion, at the moment, that it might be the harbinger of the coming of the Son of Man.64

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