The Power and Form of Emerson's Thought

absolute according action American Renaissance aspect attain aware balance basic beauty becomes believes cause character consciousness create creation divine Divinity School Address doctrine effect Emer Emerson considers Emerson says Emerson's conception Emerson's thought essential eternal ethics evil evolution excess of power existence experience expression F. O. Matthiessen fact faith fate feels finite freedom God's growth higher intellect Horace Bushnell human ideal ideas implies indicates individual insight institutions intellectual form intuition Jonathan Bishop Josiah Royce live Louis Sullivan man's material means moral sentiment nature Nature Emerson neces necessary necessity Orestes Brownson organic organicism Over-Soul paradox perception phenomena philosophy physical poet polarity power and form principle problem Ralph Waldo Emerson realize reason reform reliance religion religious self-reliance sense social society soul spiritual stimulate symbol Theodore Parker theory thereby things Thoreau tion Transcendentalists true truth understanding universal mind University Press VIII virtue whole