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" All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 270
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...the master of the intellect and the will; — is the vast back-ground of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...rose and the air and the sun." — Essays, 1841, p. 114. And again, " All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...the master of the intellect and the will; — is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...rose and the air and the sun." — Essays, 1841, p. 114. And again, " All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...master of the intellect and the will ; — is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison,—but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison,—but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...master of the intellect and the will ; — is the vast back-ground of our being, in which they lie,— * an immensity not possessed, and that cannot...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises...master of the intellect and the will ; — is the vast back-ground of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed, and that cannot be...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function, like the powers of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet ; is not a faculty,...
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Emerson, His Life and Writings

January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...spiritual theory, in opposition to the dog-theory of materialism : — " All goes to show that the soul of man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all...function, like the power of memory, of calculation, or comparison — but uses these as hands and feet ; is not a faculty, but a light ; is not the intellect...
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The Spiritual Magazine, Volume 5

1870 - 586 pages
...peculiar essence of humanity, and with the body the reality and unity of the individual man. " The soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; it is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands...
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