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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... "
Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 139
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...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...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 - 564 pages
...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...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 - 584 pages
...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...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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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...the will, but 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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...the will, but 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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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
...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...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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Emerson, His Life and Writings

January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, or comparison — but uses these as hands and feet ;...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 possessed....
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The Spiritual Magazine, Volume 7

1872 - 590 pages
...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...but a light ; is not the intellect or the will, but master of the intellect and the will ; is the background of our being, in which they lie— an immensity...
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Chapters from the Bible of the Ages

Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...exercises all the organs ; is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation, of compassion, but uses these as hands and feet ; is not a faculty,...a light • is not the intellect or the will, but master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being in which they lie — an immensity...
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