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" We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. "
Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 30
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which carrot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, _ if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of fliat inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of Chat inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which iniikes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,...
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