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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... "
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to shew that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs...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 - 584 pages
...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 all the organs...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
...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 all the organs...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
...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;...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
...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...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

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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;...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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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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
...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 the organs...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 7

1872 - 590 pages
...Emerson, has uttered the following memorable words : " All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs...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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