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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, First Series - Page 72
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,—all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm....
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 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...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,—all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm....
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 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...at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can ailirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind, and his involuntary perceptions....
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 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...causes, — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. It« presence or its absence is all we can affirm. . . . Perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...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...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which iniikes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we souk to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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...we seek to pry into the soul that causes, — all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...allow a passage to its beams* If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. EvgrjE_rnan discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind, and his involuntary percegtions,...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. . . . Perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and...
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