The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 325
... intellect dissolves fire , gravity , laws , method , and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum . ' Intellect lies behind gen- ius , which is intellect constructive . Intellect is the simple power anterior ...
... intellect dissolves fire , gravity , laws , method , and the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum . ' Intellect lies behind gen- ius , which is intellect constructive . Intellect is the simple power anterior ...
Page 326
... Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science , cool and disengaged . The intellect goes out of the individual , floats over its own personality , and regards it as a fact , and not as I and mine ...
... Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science , cool and disengaged . The intellect goes out of the individual , floats over its own personality , and regards it as a fact , and not as I and mine ...
Page 327
... intellect , is no longer a subject of destiny . We behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflections , disentangled from the web of our un- consciousness ...
... intellect , is no longer a subject of destiny . We behold it as a god upraised above care and fear . And so any fact in our life , or any record of our fancies or reflections , disentangled from the web of our un- consciousness ...
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