"Palingenesis" Quotes from Famous Books
... elder assented, "we butterflies and victorias belong to the youth of the year and the world. And the sad thing is that we won't have our palingenesis." ... — The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... from what is ordinarily meant by the phrase, a deeper and even mystical bond. Human "solidarity" was a corollary from the pantheistic religion of the Saint-Simonians, but with Leroux, as with Fourier, it was derived from the more difficult doctrine of palingenesis. We of this generation, he believed, are not merely the sons and descendants of past generations, we are the past generations themselves, which have come ... — The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... heard, and in the palingenesis disclosed she saw space wrapped in a luminous atmosphere, such as she fancied lay behind the sun. There, instead of the thrones and diadems of the elect, was an immutable realm in which there was neither death nor life, clear ... — Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus |